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CLASSIC PARTNERSHIP KING FM FINDS NEW HOME AT SEATTLE OPERA CENTER Photo by Brandon Macz KING FM CEO Brenda Barnes and outgoing Seattle Opera general director Aidan Lang worked together to reach a deal for the classical music station to lease space inside the new Seattle Opera Center.
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BY BRANDON MACZ When Seattle Opera opened its 105,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art opera center late last year, its leadership hoped to find an ideal nonprofit tenant to share it with. Now, a longtime partner is gearing up to take that space, where both organizations will make beautiful music together. “We do so many thing together any way, it will be that much easier when we just have to go up the stairs,” said KING FM CEO Bren-
da Barnes. The commercial-free nonprofit radio station has until the end of February to move out of its current space at 10 Harrison St., which will be leveled and replaced with a seven-story, 110-unit apartment building with groundfloor retail. The late Leo Kreielsheimer gifted the property to the Corporate Council for the Arts in 1999. “The very first space that we looked at was
this,” Barnes said of the 4,000-square-foot office space Seattle Opera had put up for lease. “At that time, the opera center was still under construction.” The space was deemed to small to accommodate the classical radio station’s needs during the first walkthrough.
The Seattle Department of Transportation is seeking resident and traveler feedback about improving — or possibly rebuilding — the Ballard Bridge. An online survey is available through Sunday, July 7, at surveymonkey.com/r/23J9RC6.
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Ridwell offers Seattle a fourth bin Service collects miscellaneous items for repurposing, recycling Metzger said of items he and his family no longer needed. “Here’s some clothes for Goodwill. Here’s some batteries. Here’s some old electronics.” He asked neighbors about taking their batteries to recycle, followed by offers to help with other miscellaneous items that were hard to donate or recycle. The Owen’s List Facebook group started in December 2017, and then a website that drew in thousands of subscribers
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by last summer, Metzger said. “As we got bigger, people would bring us ideas too,” Metzger said. He left his job as director of growth marketing at Madrona Venture Group last July, launching Ridwell in October. Ridwell is a bi-weekly service that focuses on four recycling and repurposing categories: Batteries, light bulbs, threads and plastic films, such as produce bags. Customers have a bag for each
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Ridwell is a member service that collects household items that tend to build up, but are neither easily recyclable or donated and doing just that through a growing list of partnerships. Photo by Brandon Macz
BY BRANDON MACZ While many people are looking around their homes for things to get rid of that just don’t spark joy, Ridwell founder Ryan Metzger hopes people will use his service to make sure those items don’t simply wind up in a landfill. Ridwell grew out of a project Metzger started with his 7-yearold son Owen, first to get rid of some batteries. “We had piles in our basement,”
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