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News | Daily Journal of Commerce

Squeezed into the center of Seattle, the Washington State Convention Center has always been over the top. Beginning in 1985, it reached over Interstate 5 with a unique landscape, Freeway Park. Then in 2001 it spanned Pike Street with a high glass-and-steel barrel vault and transparent walls...

News | Puget Sound Business Journal

The possible expansion of the Washington State Convention Center has taken a big step forward with the center's purchase of the Honda of Seattle property. The center’s Public Facilities District paid nearly $56.5 million for the property, which is between Ninth Avenue North and Boren Avenue, and Howell Street and Olive Way. Cassieford Co. of Auburn was the seller, records show. Honda is relocating to Seattle's Sodo neighborhood...