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| Design would renovate Granary Building on Bellingham waterfront | People could soon see the first redevelopment along the waterfront as Harcourt Developments continues to push ahead with plans to remodel the Granary Building. Architect John Reid of Robinson McIlwaine (RMI) Architects has been working with the city to go over the preliminary design for鈥 |
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| Bellingham wants developer offers for Aloha, Old Town sites | Developers can now make their offer to develop the site of the former Aloha Motel and a vacant piece of land in Old Town known as the Army Street property. The city hopes that developers will break ground on both sites within a year and a half of closing a deal on each property, as part鈥 |
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| Window TV show looks at community engagement | |||
| When a city turns green: how to navigate bike boxes | The roads of Bellingham are starting to live up to the community鈥檚 鈥済reen鈥 reputation鈥搎uite literally. New students settling into Bellingham may encounter these lime-colored traffic marks as they explore outside the bounds of campus. They are called 鈥渂ike boxes鈥 and are designed to鈥 |
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| Stephanie Elkins Morrell: Unleashed a 鈥榤onumental, life-changing experience鈥 | It鈥檚 hard to believe it鈥檚 been 11 years since I typed my last column for Unleashed. I鈥檝e come a long way from the sarcastic gal with long hair and braces (although, for the record, I鈥檓 still pretty sarcastic), but I鈥檝e never forgotten the experiences Unleashed afforded me. I couldn鈥檛 be鈥 |
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| Whatcom Economy: Job estimate studies can be useful | We at the Center for Economic and Business Research get asked frequently to prepare economic impact studies. We inevitably ask ourselves whether the resulting job estimates are useful (should anyone care about the job estimates?) and whether they tend to be accurate. We think the answer鈥 |
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| Retail Tipsheet: The Bagelry will roll on with new owners | The Bagelry soon will be under new ownership, but the bagels will remain very much the same. After 31 years, Ken and Marguerite Ryan have decided to sell the bagel company to two longtime employees. Aaron and Terra Seaton will officially take over ownership on Jan. 1. In the coming weeks鈥 |
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| Haggen a harsh lesson in expanding too quickly | A year ago, Haggen was an 18-store grocer virtually unknown outside of Western Washington and Oregon. Today, after a botched expansion that added 146 former Albertsons and Safeway stores in five states, the Bellingham company is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization. It has sued鈥 |
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| 草榴社区 aims to connect the university to downtown with new office | Western Washington University鈥檚 new downtown office, called the Western City Center, opened on Monday, Sept. 21 on the corner ground-level floor of the Herald Building at 1155 N. State St. |
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| 草榴社区 opens welcome center in downtown Bellingham | Western Washington University has expanded its presence in the downtown district with an office in the Herald Building. Named Western City Center, the 2,500-square-foot office opened for business on Monday, Sept. 21. It is expected to have a variety of uses as a welcome-to-Western center鈥 |