Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn pledged to power the burgeoning tech hub through a public-private partnership and Comcast was the only company to answer the call. So far, 20 businesses in Pioneer Square have been connected to our Business Class services and...

He's been working on one heck of a political pirouette over the past several months: holding private talks with someone interested in putting a pro basketball and hockey arena south of downtown, while promising to stay true to his pledge of running an...

Suddenly Seattle has emerged into daylight as a candidate for the relocation of the Kings. A mysterious hedge fund manager who went to Seattle’s Roosevelt High School is ready with hundreds of millions of dollars to build a privately financed arena,...

Commissioner David Stern barely able to contain himself over the possibility that once burned Seattle might actually be naive enough to reopen its coffers — public, private, whatever — for the bankrupt enterprise known as pro hoops. Surely there are...

Delightfully ironic as it is, that is also part of the problem. Giddy as sports fans and talk shows hosts have been over this proposed project, which has been sufficiently viable to have an investor put down $22 million to buy some land and Mayor Mike...

In meetings Wednesday and Thursday, Carl Hirsh, who was hired by Mayor Mike McGinn in July, told council members the wealthy San Francisco hedge-fund manager who wants to build a new arena is seeking to identify possible revenue streams to finance the...