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Starbucks might be seeing hard times, but Tully's is expanding--by selling half of the company to Green Mountain Coffee Roasters and focusing on retail nationwide. In effect, the sale means the Tully's brand will have a greater presence on the East Coast, and we'll probably see Green Mountain coffee on more shelves here in the Northwest. The deal saves Tully's from a path headed straight towards bankruptcy, thought it does mean reduced operations at the old Rainier Brewery.

The coolest building in Seattle was destroyed last year because it froze the earth under it after decades as a cold storage facility (and because, Skeptical Seattlest says, it was a billion square feet of prime Georgetown real estate that was scary and dark inside). The Sabey Corporation that owns the old Rainier brewery complex on Airport Way has been trying to figure out what to replace the cold storage building with since before it was made into rubble. We were at a community meeting hosted by Sabey in the fall where neighborhood residents openly revolted against their initial design drawings. Scrap what you've got, add brick, add arches, beef it up and start it at the street so that the Wall of Georgetown remains unbroken, they said. Sabey's current design looks like this:

"Colorful Building" by saul_xavier

Georgetown scooters 2 by El Gregein

Architecture writer Lawrence Cheek writes in today's P-I about two historic properties--one landmarked and one not, respectively--that have been undergoing some creative adaptive reuses: Queen Anne High School and the old Rainier (Sick's) Brewery in SoDo. We were fortunate enough to take a tour of the latter earlier this month.

A post-apocalyptic short film will be shot in Seattle this coming Sunday and they're looking for extras in the future goth vein. Where does one shoot a post-apocalyptic short film? Microsoft Campus? Seattle Center? Lower Madison? No, no, no. Rainier Brewery!