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This is a topic I try to avoid - the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Wow. Don't get me started. Let someone else go after it and I'll link to it. Bill Gates lives in a billion dollar house, and he's building a five hundred million dollar headquarters for the Foundation arm of his financial empire in downtown Seattle. He lives large, and gives large. Bill And Melinda Gates Give $350-Million to Their Foundation- Chronicle of Philanthropy 
From seattlebubble.com: The story printed in the Seattle Times portrays a starry-eyed, helpless group of individuals that were taken advantage of by a slimy real estate agent (who is inexplicably not named by the Times), shady lenders, and overzealous salespeople. The “angle” on the Times story is clear: Danil Kasimov and the others listed in the suit against Bellevue Towers are unwitting victims. It would appear that Nancy Bartley, the author of this article, had a story in mind that she wanted to tell, and did not bother to even spend 30 minutes researching the supposed victims online and in public records. 
Ultra-lux condo project's buyers emerge in public records The just-finished Four Seasons project in downtown Seattle won't identify most of its wealthy condo residents, but property records show they range from a Las Vegas animal-rights activist to retired Nordstrom co-chairman John McMillan. By Seattle Times business staff, Rami Grunbaum, deputy business editor, and Seattle Times Business staff "Public sales records identify, or hint at, buyers of condos in the Four Seasons project, including Bruce McCaw.The ultra-luxury, just-finished Four Seasons hotel/condo project in downtown Seattle put out a news release a few days ago announcing that 25 of its 36 "private residences" had sold, and 22 of the sales had closed.This, according to the general manager, was evidence of "steady demand" for the high-end condos, in spite of current economic woes. The news release didn't announce who those buyers are — more on that later. It also didn't say that 23 of those 25 units were pre-sold more than 18 months ago, before the... 
Here's a story you're not going to see at Wendy Leung's Seattle Condo Review: The corner of Denny and Dexter represents the latest outbreak in an epidemic of uninspired developments destined to pollute our landscape for generations. Huge slabs of cheap textures, tastelessly reminiscent of the Eastlake Azteca’s color scheme and suspiciously similar to the puke yellow façade of the nearby Pan Pacific Hotel blot the landscapes of Belltown, Ballard, and now this regretful Regrade plot. Normally, building over a former strip club counts as an improvement--here we can’t be so sure. All the strippers can’t be ugly all the time, but the same can’t be said for what’s replaced them. Overpaying for an ugly box isn’t reprehensible, it's "downtown living."" 
Update 09-03-2008 Written by Travis J Winn
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