Apartment City

The Bellevue Hill home . SUTTON car dealership executive Scott Sutton has listed his luxury Bellevue Hill home . Sutton, an heir to the Suttons Holden fortune , paid $5.3 million for the home in 2015. The home — which began as a 1960s Harry Seidler designed abode — has hit the market through Raine & Horne Double Bay daughter - mother sales team Denise and Gillian Cameron. No word on his plans after the September 7 auction. While a classic modern home in style, architect Harry Seidler is said to have abandoned the project as the original client kept changing his mind. Wow! The Bennelong Crescent home comes with a modernist refurbishment enhancing the harbour views across to Manly from its three levels. The home with double-brick and concrete slab construction has four bedrooms, three bathrooms and a self-contained apartment. Wide alfresco terraces flow to the land­scaped gardens and heated pool. Entertain up a storm. Sutton recently sold a nearby Cranbrook Road building bl...

Amazon’s extraordinary growth has turned Seattle into the biggest company town in America. Amazon now occupies a mind-boggling 19 percent of all prime office space in the city, the most for any employer in a major U.S. city, according to a new analysis conducted for The Seattle Times. Amazon’s footprint in Seattle is more than twice as large as any other company in any other big U.S. city, and the e-commerce giant’s expansion here is just getting started. The swarms of 20-somethings crowding into South Lake Union every morning represent an urban campus that is unparalleled in the United States — and they have helped transform Seattle , for better or worse. Amazon’s rapid rise has fueled an economy that has driven up wages and lowered unemployment, but also produced gridlock on the roads and sky- high housing prices . And while Seattle’s booming economy is often attributed to a wide variety of factors, increasingly, it’s all about one company. Amazon now occupies more office space t...