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(The Center Square) – Downtown Seattle Association President & CEO Jon Scholes said Wednesday night that the Emerald City’s downtown area has lost 37,000 jobs in the last five years with city business taxes causing the losses. “We’re going in the wrong direction,” he told a crowd assembled for the State of Downtown annual program at the Seattle Convention Center. At the same time, he said, downtown Bellevue has seen a 12% job increase, including
(The Center Square) – Democrats in the Washington State Senate have given final approval to an income tax bill on Wednesday night, clearing a path for it to head for the governor’s desk for his expected signature. Senate Bill 6346 will put a nearly 10% tax on income north of $1 million a year, or combined household income above that threshold, to fund several programs, provide tax breaks for lower income families and bolster the
(The Center Square) – The day after majority party Democrats in the Washington State House of Representatives passed, after a 24-hour debate, a tax on annual personal income exceeding $1 million, business organization across the state are sounding the alarm. On the same day the House approved Senate Bill 6346, former Starbucks CEO Howard Shultz and his wife announced on X that they have moved to Florida, leaving Washington after nearly half a century. Patrick
(The Center Square) – Spokane Valley officials are hoping to avoid new state parking mandates aimed at reducing housing development costs by lowering the amount of parking required for these projects. The city council will consider a comprehensive plan update this year that estimates more than 16,000 new housing units in the Valley by 2046. The officials are worried the new parking mandates will lead to spillover in other neighborhoods, creating safety concerns, unless the
