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![Seattle Boasts More Women Business Owners Than Any Other Large City Seattle Boasts More Women Business Owners Than Any Other Large City](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai2/q_lossy+ret_img+to_webp/seattlebusinessmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/iStock-1221213467.jpg)
Seattle Boasts More Women Business Owners Than Any Other Large City
Statewide, Washington, Oregon and Hawaii have the highest percentage of women business owners
The Puget Sound region has a higher percentage of women business owners than any major metro area in the United States. A report by Self Financial found that women make up 46.2% of business owners in the region, which trumps the national average of 38.4%. Statewide, Washington, Oregon and Hawaii have the highest percentage of…
![Amazon to Bring 10,000 Jobs to Bellevue Amazon to Bring 10,000 Jobs to Bellevue](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai2/q_lossy+ret_img+to_webp/seattlebusinessmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/iStock-1207127338.jpg)
Amazon to Bring 10,000 Jobs to Bellevue
The new jobs are in addition to the 15,000 the tech giant announced it would bring to Bellevue last February
Amazon announced Friday that it will bring 10,000 more jobs to Bellevue in the next few years as it increasingly distances itself from its Seattle headquarters. To make room for the new hires, Amazon has leased 2 million square feet of office space in downtown Bellevue from Vulcan, a Seattle-based real estate company. The properties…
![Rental Market May Finally Be Cooling Down in Greater Seattle. Still Hot in Tacoma. Rental Market May Finally Be Cooling Down in Greater Seattle. Still Hot in Tacoma.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai2/q_lossy+ret_img+to_webp/seattlebusinessmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/sea-rent-growth.jpg)
Rental Market May Finally Be Cooling Down in Greater Seattle. Still Hot in Tacoma.
With new units on the market and occupancy down, rents are growing more slowly.
In a sign of what could be the beginning of the end for the hot rental market, average rents are no longer growing at a torrid pace. While average monthly rents increased by 5.6 percent to $1,777 in the Seattle/Bellevue/Everett area in September from the year before, average rents actually declined slightly from the previous…