Construction Industry

Previously home to The Bon Marché and currently home to Macy’s, 300 Pine St. is a historical epicenter of retail in Seattle. Amazon has recently announced that they will keep this tradition going by leasing 6 floors of office space above the downtown Seattle Macy’s store. Combined with the announcement earlier this month that Amazon plans to…

Last month 18 local entrepreneurs, including our very own Kerry Cordes, graduated from the Seattle Small Business Administration Emerging Leaders program!

Crystal Soda Blast was honored to be a finalist at the 2017 King County Executive’s Small Business Awards! Check out the pictures and video of the event here!

Have you ever-mixed cement? First, add water to a mixture, stir, pour, and wait for it to set. Sounds simple enough, right? Now, repeat those steps 1,700 times into individual block molds. That is exactly what Seattle couple, Bill and Elizabeth Tracy, did five days a week for a year while constructing their home in Normandy Park, WA in 1956.

Last month, Final 2012 construction spending numbers were released by the US Census Bureau in their January 2013 Press Release. This graphic illustrates some of the comparisons in public, private, and total construction spending from 2011 to 2012.

We’ll be hosting a drop-in open house with a catered luncheon on March 12, 2013 from 11:00am to 1:00pm to reveal our new offices. So, mark it on your calendars! We recently expanded into our new offices in Kent, WA. We were previously located in Bellevue, WA but outgrew our space and found a 10,000 square foot office/yard space in Kent.

About the Infographic At Crystal Soda Blast, we continually monitor the performance of the construction industry and look for trends that help us better understand the overall picture. The infographic below shows you some of the trends that we’ve noticed in the past few months. We hope you will find this information as interesting and…