The Institute for Systems Biology has opened its new global headquarters in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood, the Institute and Vulcan Real Estate announced Monday.
Our new facility will enable the accommodation of additional faculty, researchers, and laboratory space, which provides us the opportunity to further increase the depth and breadth of our scientific capabilities,” the research institutes co-founder and President Leroy Hood said in a news release. ISB has a long-standing tradition of sharing our discoveries in computation, technologies, and related areas of systems biology research with others, so we are excited to move to this regions life sciences research and technology hub. Th
A Windermere Real Estate listing for a modern home on Hunts Point. Click photo for listing.
Fans of modern architecture can have trouble sifting through listings to find a truly modern home. Windermere Real Estate wants to help with that.
“This buyer demographic is one that seeks serious modern homes; not conventional homes with modern accents,” Windermere President OB Jacobi said in announcing the Windermere Modern program, launched in February.
“Windermere Modern attracts the right buyers and eliminates those who aren’t looking for modern architecture,” Jacobi said.
The program highlights modern homes with special branding, marketing and advertising. Windermer
Seattles home prices are a slightly better bargain, compared with rents, than they were a few months ago, according to a new report.
In January, real estate website Trulia.com deemed Seattles home prices the second-worst bargain among the largest 50 U.S. cities, with the median cost to buy a two-bedroom apartment, condominium or townhouse 24 times the median annual rental cost for a similar home. Now, Seattle is sixth, with a price thats 19 times median annual rent. Seattle followed a nationwide trend of falling prices and rising rents making buying more attractive. The citys 20 percent quarterly swing in favor of buying was the fourth-largest, behind Fresno, Calif. (30 percent), Omaha, Neb.
Consider the prospect of lending your whole life savings of $450,000 cash. If you had to choose among three people to borrow your money, would you be a bit selective? I think you would agree that you wouldn’t want to lose any of that hard-earned money. After all, it took a life of working to earn it.
I like to tell my clients that the lender’s responsibility is to protect the “mother ship.” She has cannon-sized holes in her side and she is taking on water!
An image of a unit built with the Sustainable Living Innovations system. (Doug Scott/CollinsWoerman)
Heres one of the many interesting items Im catching up on as I recover from a nasty virus.
Seattle architecture firm CollinsWoerman Wednesday unveiled a prototype modular building system for multi-family buildings.
Many companies have been looking at modular construction, which brings in homes or building sections pre-built in a factory, as a way to make buildings faster, at less cost, with better energy efficiency and less waste.
Sustainable Living Innovations bills itself as the only component-based concrete and steel system scalable to buildings six stories and above and customizable to virtually any site.
