The prospective buyer of Pacific Place filed preliminary documents to convert most of the retail space to offices. Converting the mall is estimated to cost $260 million. (Daniel Kim / The Seattle Times)
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Redoing Pacific Place as offices is only the start of a downtown comeback | Jon Talton

An "over-stored" central core puts the urban mall in the crosshairs of development. But reinvention will take more than turning Pacific Place into offices. Columnist Jon Talton looks at the challenges. Updated

Politics

Lynda DePiero is on the hook for nearly $435,000 after she accepted about $47,000 in benefits to which the government said she was not entitled. MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by Mark Makela

A Social Security program piled huge fines on the poor and disabled

Opinion

Mayor Harrell, stem the blue drain with Seattle Police Department hiring incentives | Editorial
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Local News

South bound traffic on I-5, photographed from the Holgate Street overpass, looking North, Wednesday, July 28, 2021. 217745

Seattle's lane-closure summer is starting on I-5: How that and other weekend shutdowns will affect you

Featured Columnist

‘All the hurt and the rage’: Elders recall trauma of Native boarding schools

Project Homeless

Dramatically different plan to house Seattle's poorest residents draws opposition
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Business & Tech

This image from NASA TV shows the Boeing Starliner approaching the International Space Station, Friday, May 20, 2022. Boeing’s astronaut capsule has arrived at the International Space Station in a critical repeat test flight. Only a test dummy was aboard the capsule for Friday’s docking, a huge achievement for Boeing after years of false starts. (NASA via AP) NYMV103 NYMV103

Boeing Starliner capsule docks at space station despite being down 2 thrusters WATCH

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Downtown is in trouble and it'll take more than redoing Pacific Place to save it

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Nation & World

An election worker at the Clackamas County Elections office shows barcodes on ballots that is bad, top, and good on Thursday, May 19, 2022, Oregon City, Ore. Ballots with blurry barcodes that can’t be read by vote-counting machines will delay election results by weeks in a key U.S. House race in Oregon’s primary. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus) NYAG203 NYAG203

Pressure mounts over Oregon primary ballot fiasco WATCH

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Food & Drink

Chef Adam Paulin, formerly of Seattle pizza favorite The Masonry, is in charge of the wood-fired pies at Bremerton’s new Evergreen Pizza Co., and they are very good.

Find the Northwest’s best bakery — plus 5 more great places to eat — on an extra-fun day trip to Bremerton VIEW

Pacific NW Magazine

Local squeezebox company Petosa weathers a century of accordion ups and downs

Here’s how to squeeze a little more accordion into your life

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Arts & Life

This is the Melody sphere at Free Spirit Spheres in British Columbia, where funky spherical pods make for a nice forested retreat.

Stay off the beaten path this summer at these 8 unique Pacific Northwest locales VIEW

Moira Macdonald’s list of must-read books for summer 2022

Photography

Under extremely windy conditions on Lake Washington, Alan Allegret bolts onto the water with his windfoil during weekly windsurf races off New Castle Beach Park in Bellevue, Wednesday, May 18, 2022 in Bellevue. According to City League Series race organizer Greg Mejlaender, the winds were anywhere between 20 to 40 miles per hour. “If anyone gets to the buoy and back we’ll crown them champion and the rest of us are in survival mode,” joked Mejlaender.
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Windsurfing race in Bellevue a battle

Museum of Flight – Boeing Field – B-29 bomber flight – 051722 Meg Godlewski’s bomber jacket with all of its patches accents the nose of Doc, one of only two World War II B-29 bombers still flying, as it soars over the Seattle area Tuesday, May 17, 2022. The visit is part of the “B-29 Doc History Restored Tour.” After the plane’s arrival at the Museum, it will remain on-site for routine maintenance and crew changes until May 19, when public tours and flights begin. Public ground and cockpit tours will be available May 19-20 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and on May 21- 22, from 12 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Rides in the plane will be during the mornings of May 21-22, and are sold out as of this writing, but additional flights might be added–for updates check www.b29doc.com/rides For details and prices about B-29 Doc Flight Experience, visit www.b29doc.com/rides. 220403
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‘Doc,’ the Boeing B-29 bomber, lands at Museum of Flight VIEW

Norwegian Pride was on full display as Ballard celebrated Syttende Mai with a parade. For the first time since 2019, Ballard’s Syttende Mai Parade took place celebrating Norwegian Constitution Day. 220411
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See how the Syttende Mai parade returned in style in Ballard VIEW

Scott Falkin and his daughter Mimi almost beat the University Bridge going up in the 8K race from Husky Stadium and back to it Saturday morning. Thousands participated in the fundraising event, the 40th in the series of Beat The Bridge to beat diabetes. (Nordstrom main and presenting sponsor on the website) Ref to more photos online LO Linesonly Beat the Bridge 8K 220400
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Beat the Bridge runners race to beat diabetes VIEW