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Streateries, First Hill Street Car Arrives & More

The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today

By Lauren Mang March 2, 2015

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Rumors are swirling that Bellevue-based Expedia could be packing up and moving its headquarters to Seattle. Among the options the online travel giant is potentially considering? The Puget Sound Business Journal reports Expedia “was looking at moving to Amgen’s Helix campus next to marine shipping Terminals 90 and 91 on Smith Cove.” That now-vacant facility measures around 750,000 square feet and Expedia is currently interested in a space that offers 700,000 square feet. 

Better late than never? The first of six street cars slated to run on tracks along Broadway in First Hill down to South Jackson Street in Pioneer Square arrived this weekend. The trains, made by a Czech company, were supposed to have been delivered in early 2014, but that date was then pushed to this past October. Delivery is expected to be completed in April and the Seattle Department of Transportation says “route testing will begin and conclude in June.” Fingers crossed.

Will you eat at Chik-fil-A when it opens next month in Bellevue? Or will you boycott the fast food chain for its president Dan Cathy’s controversial and unabashed views on same-sex marriage? In case you need a refresher:

“We are very much supportive of the family — the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that…we know that it might not be popular with everyone, but thank the Lord, we live in a country where we can share our values and operate on biblical principles.”

Kiro Radio’s Jason Rantz says that while Seattleites love to boycott, they’ll push their feelings aside and eat at Chik-fil-A. What do you think?

The fields of Skagit Valley are alive with the signs of blooming tulips. Our recent warm weather has confused blooms across the state, including the tulips that normally spring to life in April for the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. According to Komo News, “this year, they’re blooming early, and that has Tulip Town opening a few days ahead of schedule to take advantage of the weekend and to make sure people can come while the flowers are out.”

Seattle recently welcomed its sixth parklet as part of our city’s parklet pilot program, which Mayor Ed Murray has declared a permanent program. The latest parklet is located in front of the Uptown Cinema and is sponsored by SIFF. Parklets have caused some concern among residents–particularly drivers–because they eat up one to two much-needed parking spaces. Now, Mayor Murray wants to test out streateries, a sister program to parklets that would allow restaurants and cafes that don’t have space to operate a sidewalk cafe to open a parklet with “exclusive rights during their regular business hours.” Unlike a parklet, a streatery would enable “patrons of the restaurants can enjoy their meals and drinks outside while receiving service from restaurant staff.”

 

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