Inside Seattle
Space to Play: A 900-Square-Foot Kirkland Studio Opens for Creators
Play Studios, founded by Christabelle Granadosin, gives local creators a place to shoot, edit, and build their work.
Despite the name, producing social media content can be an isolating experience. Between capturing an image or video and the hours of editing that follow, the process is challenging to pull off without a dedicated space. Local product designer Christabelle Granadosin was feeling the tedium with her photo booth venture, so she decided to launch…
Growing What Works: Early Outcomes from Washington’s Charter Public Schools
What happens after high school may be one of the most important measures of whether our public schools in Washington serve students well. A new report published by Agency, Inc, Turning the Tassel in Washington State: Outcomes for Charter Public School Graduates from 2019-2025, seeks to answer that question by exploring early adult life outcomes…
Queen of the Hill
A 1918 landmark reworked with design cues drawn from early industry.
Seattle’s historic MarQueen Hotel has unveiled an extensive renovation that blends contemporary comforts with vintage glamour. Originally built in 1918 as the Seattle Engineering School, the brick building at the bottom of Queen Anne Avenue provided housing for students developing the Ford Model T. The refreshed design, by Cusack + Co. Interiors, features historic wood…
Rebuilding From The Studs
Niche? Nonprofit? And a print publication? All signs pointed to an uphill battle. But ARCADE’s Leah St. Lawrence is showing how stability, growth, and experimentation can coexist within one organization.
“Greetings. the new publication ARCADE, which you are holding in your hands, is an experiment in integration.” These words welcomed readers to the first issue of a new publication declaring itself to be “Seattle’s calendar for architecture and design.” Selling for one dollar and printed across four pages of 11×17, black-and-white newsprint with a single…
Future Thinking
Leaning into lessons from her past, including the embrace of new technologies, Ava Van Snow launched her full-service PR firm with the goal of helping others tell their stories.
Public Relations specialist Ava Van Snow has always had big ambitions. Despite a series of challenges during her childhood in Renton—a father who walked out when she was young, being raised by her immigrant grandparents who fled Vietnam during the war, and depending on government assistance to survive—she set her sights on pursuing a career…
Learning to Pivot
Liz Galloway, the founder of Brand Sanity Media, spent the past 15 years learning to grow and adapt within her industry’s changing landscape.
In public relations, you have to stay on your toes. This is a lesson that Liz Galloway, founder of Brand Sanity Media, has encountered many times over the years. “I have a lot of admiration for anyone who is consistent and resilient,” says Galloway, who in addition to launching her own PR firm six years…
Innovative Energy
Pioneer Square’s neglected metropole building gets a second life—and a sustainable upgrade—as a nonprofit hub.
After more than a decade lying vacant and in ruins, the Metropole, as its name implies, is once again a vibrant center of culture, industry, and influence. Located in the historic Pioneer Square neighborhood, the Metropole building was constructed in 1892 as the first major commercial project of Henry Yesler, the city’s wealthiest resident during…
Fresh Catch
With more than 30 years of marine-protection advocacy under her belt, Seattle Aquarium’s new CEO wants to spark a greater interest in conservation.
Peggy Sloan has long felt a draw to the Pacific Northwest. In the early ’90s, while working as a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fisheries observer (a specialist who spends time on commercial fishing vessels to collect data), Sloan counted Seattle as her home base. So, when the opportunity arose more than 30 years later…
Resistance Turned to Resilience
The Seattle Chinatown International District Preservation and Development Authority is celebrating 50 years of lifting up a neighborhood besieged by challenges from all sides.
On November 2, 1972—after a steady overnight rain cleared to leave a construction site near the King Street Station thick with mud—about 200 people gathered for the official groundbreaking of the Kingdome. A project that had seen its funding rejected several times by voters, the Kingdome was finally on its way, with the hopes that…
Finally, the Robot Chauffeurs Are Coming
Why Waymo’s autonomous rideshare could be a good thing for Seattle.
OK, before anyone assumes I am simply a technocrat espousing the virtues of automation at the expense of human connection, just hear me out on this one. Waymo’s imminent arrival in Seattle is a good thing, and frankly, I couldn’t be happier. The company announced it’s beginning driverless testing in Seattle this week, following earlier…
Editor’s Notebook: New Beginnings
It’s never easy to step into something that’s already underway. Whether it’s starting a new school halfway through the academic year or picking up a project launched under prior leadership, big transitions are sure to ignite a flurry of emotions. Stepping into the editor-in-chief role at Seattle magazine felt a little bit like all of…
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