Seattle

SEATTLE- Demolition permits for Sound Transit's 27-acre operation and maintenance center have been approved by city officials, Mayor Greg Nickels said today.

OLMPIA, WA-Port of Olympia Commissioners gave a thumbs up this week to constructing the Port Plaza near Percival Landing. The controversial idea has been bouncing around the community for nearly a decade.

SEATTLE-After a couple of years of negotiating, the YWCA and the private developer have exchanged parcels, each valued at $1.4 million. The land in question is located in Belltown, on the east side of Third Avenue, between Virginia and Lenora streets.

SEATTLE, WA-Asking rents in the new South Lake Union building aren't what the developers originally envisioned, but Bryan Syrdal says they're workable and the building is attracting tenants. The first to sign is the Seattle bio-tech company, Zymogenetics.

TACOMA, WA-City officials are inching closer to negotiating a purchase and sale agreement for a new hotel on the Greater Tacoma Convention Center site.

TACOMA, WA- Two local residents have been found guilty of 11 counts of conspiracy, mail fraud and bank fraud in a real estate scheme that cost victims $2 million.

BELLEVUE, WA-The locally based Laptop Lane has announced the opening of its newest business center at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The new Laptop Lane location in the North Satellite, between gates N8 and N9, is the ninth store the company has added this year.

BREMERTON,WA-Plans to develop a high-tech business park west of Kitsap Lake are moving forward, after legal challenges posed by two citizen groups have been dropped.