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Of Note
Expedia Opens New Headquarters in Seattle’s Interbay
Neighborhood
Expedia has moved into a new Seattle headquarters. The 40-acre campus in the
Interbay industrial district faces Elliott Bay and offers significant amenities for the
company’s employees, The Seattle Times reports.
“Appropriately enough for the global hospitality group, the refurbished
biotechnology building…is designed to replicate the experience of being inside a
posh hotel,” the newspaper reports.
Expedia has also located wireless internet access points into fake rocks
throughout the campus, to encourage employees to get outside and enjoy the many
acres of green space throughout the company’s property.
To discourage traffic congestion, the company is also offering free ORCA transit
cards, subsidizing ride carpools and 400 bike parking stalls, among other measures.
The move to the new campus began in October and was scheduled for completion
by February.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Partners with University of Washington to Improve Package Delivery
Two of the biggest problem-solvers in the Pacific Northwest are
working together to develop a project to improve package delivery.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of
Washington’s Urban Freight Lab are working on new methods to help
delivery drivers find parking, pack trucks better and drop off packages
in lockers on ground floors, KHQ-TV reports.
“The technology goal is to hopefully reduce some of the pain of
getting the last 50 feet,” PNNL User Experience Research Scientist
Lyndsey Franklin told the news station.
The project is funded by a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department
of Energy.
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