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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, MAY 29, 2018
Facelift of Seattle’s Space Needle nears completion
A $100 million
renovation
By AHMED
NAMATALLA
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Tourism is
booming in Seattle. Just take a
look at the Space Needle.
The family-owned land-
mark is set to unveil the big-
gest renovation in its 56-year
history next month, a $100
million investment in a sin-
gle year of construction that
transformed the structure’s top
viewing level with floor-to-
ceiling glass.
Seattle and King County
benefited from $7.4 billion of
spending by a record 40 mil-
lion visitors last year, a number
that has grown annually since
the 2008 recession, accord-
ing to Visit Seattle, a nonprofit
advocacy group for the tourism
industry.
Dozens of cranes that have
become a mainstay of the city’s
skyline over the past decade
aren’t just building apartments
and offices, but hotels to absorb
the flood of arrivals at Seattle
Tacoma International Airport.
“The environment is
friendly with this type of
investment. It wasn’t a difficult
thing at all to obtain financing,”
said Ron Sevart, president and
chief executive officer at Space
Needle LLC. “What we like
AP Photo/Elaine Thompson
Workers climb atop the roof of the Space Needle, where most of the top is surrounded
by a massive work platform, scaffolding and protective covering, as work on a major
remodel of the iconic observation tower continues.
to say is trends last 50 years.
What this investment is more
about is the next 50 years, and
making sure the space needle
stays relevant.”
Hyatt Hotels Corp. is build-
ing a 1,260 room tower that’s
set to become the biggest hotel
in the Northwest when it opens
in the fall. In 2017, SeaTac Air-
port bucked the second year of
declines in international arriv-
als to the U.S., posting a 5 per-
cent increase, according to
Visit Seattle.
Seattle’s Wright fam-
ily, which built and owns the
Space Needle, is also installing
glass in the observation deck’s
rotating floor and remodeling
the restaurant in the first phase
of the renovation.
Repainting the exterior
of the 600-foot structure and
replacing its three elevators
will follow, according to Karen
Olson, chief marketing officer
at Space Needle. The project is
being finance with a commer-
cial loan, she said.
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Tonight's Sky: The Full 'Flower' moon (07:21 a.m.
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YE TSOP
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With more cannabis being
grown than consumed, grow-
ers have dropped wholesale
prices and some are scaling
back production or getting out
of the market.
The Oregon Liquor Control
Commission will evaluate the
supply and demand from July
to June in a report for state
lawmakers.
• At 8:16 p.m. Saturday,
Michael Royall, 53, of Sea-
side, was arrested by Seaside
police on 17th Avenue and
charged with DUII, reckless
driving and hit and run.
• At 12:56 p.m. Saturday,
Zachary Forsythe, 32, of Sea-
side, was arrested by Seaside
police on Holladay Drive and
charged with DUII and driving
while suspended.
• At 7:34 p.m. Friday,
Mirenda Jane Murphy, 35,
was arrested by Oregon State
Police on U.S. Highway 26
and charged with DUII. Her
blood alcohol content was 0.22
percent.
Assaulting a
public safety officer
• At 6:30 p.m. Friday, Dar-
rell Sutton, 23, of Warren-
ton, was arrested by Seaside
police on the 130 block of
Holladay Drive and charged
with assaulting a public safety
officer, resisting arrest, escape
and interfering with a police
officer.
DEATH
May 25, 2018
PAINTER, Blake Charles, 38, of Astoria, died in Astoria. Hughes-Ransom Mortuary & Crema-
tory in Astoria is in charge of the arrangements.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
Clatsop Community College,
6:30 p.m., special meeting for
student complaint, Columbia
Hall Room 219, 1651 Lexington
Ave.
THURSDAY
Clatsop County Recreational
Lands Planning and Advisory
Committee, 1 to 3 p.m., fourth
floor, 800 Exchange St.
Monday’s Megabucks: 2-4-
12-16-28-44
Estimated jackpot: $6.6
million
Estimated jackpot: $220,000
Monday’s Keno: 11-12-13-16-
20-21-23-24-27-32-39-40-44-
46-52-60-66-69-78-79
Monday’s Lotto: 03-14-20-
38-41-49
Estimated jackpot: $2.8 million
Monday’s Match 4: 05-11-
20-21
WASHINGTON
Monday’s Daily Game: 2-5-7
Monday’s Hit 5: 12-14-25-
27-33
OBITUARY POLICY
APPLIANCE
AND HOME
FURNISHINGS
IN
DUII
• At 3:43 a.m. Sunday,
Heather A. Williamson, 19, of
Ocean Park, Washington, was
arrested by Warrenton police on
Ninth Street and Main Avenue
and charged with driving under
the influence of intoxicants.
• At 11:46 p.m. Saturday,
Charles James Gordon, 20,
of Astoria, was arrested by
the Clatsop County Sheriff’s
Office on US. Highway 101
Business and charged with
DUII.
OREGON
Monday’s Pick 4:
1 p.m.: 3-0-7-7
4 p.m.: 3-2-8-9
7 p.m.: 0-9-6-5
10 p.m.: 2-6-8-5
Monday’s Lucky Lines: 01-07-
12-14-17-24-27-31
Estimated jackpot: $31,000
PACKAGE DEALS
Mattresses, Furniture
& More!
ply chain.
Data provided by the Ore-
gon Liquor Control Commis-
sion says only 108,330 pounds
of usable recreational mari-
juana were sold last year at the
retail level, leaving 891,670
pounds in the pipeline to be
stored for later sales or used
in the manufacture of concen-
trates and edibles.
LOTTERIES
APPLIANCE
3 A 0 RS
BEND — State regulators
say Oregon produced enough
recreational cannabis last year
to supply every adult resident
with more than 5 ounces of
legal marijuana.
The Bend Bulletin reported
there were more than 1 mil-
lion pounds in the state’s sup-
TUESDAY
Warrenton-Hammond School
Board, 6 p.m., Warrenton High
School library, 1700 S. Main
Ave.
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sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries,
sn-snow, i-ice.
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Brookings
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June 20
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Bend
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Lebanon
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Eugene
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Portland
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Sunset tonight ........................... 8:57 p.m.
Sunrise Wednesday .................... 5:29 a.m. Coos Bay
Moonrise today .......................... 9:05 p.m. 47/60
Moonset today ............................ 5:57 a.m.
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ASTORIA
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Precipitation
Monday ............................................ 0.00"
Month to date ................................... 0.42"
Normal month to date ....................... 3.02"
Year to date .................................... 33.12"
Normal year to date ........................ 33.06"
May 29
SATURDAY
REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Monday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 65°/52°
Normal high/low ........................... 62°/48°
Record high ............................ 81° in 1922
Record low ............................. 38° in 1973
Full
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FRIDAY
AP Photo/Elaine Thompson
Scaffolding remains on the Space Needle.
Oregon recreational pot growers scale back
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
“Keeping your product
well maintained and ‘fresh’
increases desirability,” said
Jeanne Liu, senior vice presi-
dent of research at Longwoods
International USA Inc., a con-
sultancy that compiles tour-
ism industry statistics for Visit
Seattle. “There are a lot of
places to visit in this world,
and those destinations with
a solid tourism infrastruc-
ture that is well maintained
can use that as a competitive
advantage.”
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