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The P-I Globe on the Move, Kurt Cobain’s Home for Sale

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By Lauren Mang March 4, 2015

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Way to go, Bellingham: The city to our north has earned the title as one of the least obese cities in the U.S. after a recent Gallup survey found that “just 18.7 percent of Bellingham residents have a Body Mass Index of 30 or more.” The low BMI brings Bellingham to the 5th best overall. The number one least obese city in the U.S.? Boulder, Colo.

Another church has outbid real estate developers and won the Ballard site where Mars Hill Church, which dissolved last fall, once called home. The property at 1401 NW Leary Way–right across the street from the Ballard Blocks development–sold for $9 million to Interbay congregation Quest Church. Mars Hill will make $4.2 million on the sale.

In sunken ship news: Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and his research team recently discovered the wreckage of a Japanese World War II battleship “off the Philippines near where it sank more than 70 years ago,” reports the Associated Press. The search for the ship began more than eight years ago. To see several stunning high-definition images of the wreckage, go here.

Kurt Cobain’s four-bedroom, one-bathroom Aberdeen home where he spent several of his early years is again on the market, with an asking price of $400,000. According to Redfin, the late Nirvana frontman’s bedroom “possibly a converted attic, still has the holes from where he punched the walls and the Iron Maiden and Led Zeppelin logos that he stenciled.” Dial up your real estate agents, stat.

The iconic Seattle Post-Intelligencer Globe will likely move from its spot atop a building at 101 Elliott Avenue to a new home, in Myrtle Edwards Park. The Seattle Weekly reports that the rotating “30-foot, 18.5-ton neon-lit” Globe, which stood as a symbol for the now-shuttered P-I newspaper (the P-I operates solely online now) and was saved from demise back in 2012, has garnered support “to be relocated, restored, and resurrected” in the park.

 

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