Slog - Comments on What Is Happening in That Tower? http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_is_happening_in_that_tower Two weeks ago, when Washington Mutual was slipping, I called Seattle Art Museum and asked to talk to the director, Mimi Gates, about the museum's longstanding and much-publicized relationship with the bank. After all, they share a building. Gates didn't even think it important enough to get on the phone. A museum spokesperson said simply that everything was fine, that there were safeguards built into the relationship for just such a scenario, and that if WaMu was bailed out, the new tenant would simply assume the role that WaMu played in paying rent to the museum. Fast-forward to last Thursday,... Copyright 2008 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:10:23 -0800 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:59:22 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by hm "Gates didn’t even think it important enough to get on the phone."


...maybe not with you, but you're kind of an ineloquent hack...

]]> hm http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_is_happening_in_that_tower#c1152569 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_is_happening_in_that_tower#c1152569 Visual Art Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:20:52 -0800 Comment by Sean The image in the post about the condo conversions below says the museum complex will be demolished!

]]> Sean http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_is_happening_in_that_tower#c1152578 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_is_happening_in_that_tower#c1152578 Visual Art Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:24:07 -0800 Comment by Nandor Sean, take a look at http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/visualart/379714_samwamu19.html . I worked in WaMu Center for a while and can verify what that article states: SAM owns its building and leases part of it to WaMu. JPMorgan can do what it wants with most of WaMu Center, but it doesn't have the legal right to touch SAM. And my hunch tells me that with all the money problems it just inherited, it isn't going to want to throw tons of money into buying up SAM's building.


I do, of course, realize that this directly contradicts the proposed land use notice. I really have no idea how that is even possible.

]]> Nandor http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_is_happening_in_that_tower#c1152617 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_is_happening_in_that_tower#c1152617 Visual Art Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:52:03 -0800 Comment by Enough I am tired of this. Honestly, you all have no clue what you are talking about. You are just pulling anything out of your ass that you can find. You were speculating and even saying that "[there is] a certain cleaning-out of its own is taking place..." at WaMu Center, which it is not, not yet anyway. YOU do not know. WaMu employees do not know. Alan Fishman and Jamie Dimon do not know. Everything is up in the air right now and you feel it is your duty to speculate and write about things as though you ACTUALLY know what is going on.


People are still working in WaMu Center. Yes, Kerry Killinger's picture may have been taken down in WASHINGTON MUTUAL TOWER, which WaMu rents office space in. He is no longer CEO, why would his picture not be taken down? Do you know that there are more than two buildings downtown with WaMu offices? Get over this shit.


Honestly, report on shit when you know about shit. This is just ridiculous.


Of course your low level friend Phil knows nothing. Why would a low level employee know anything in the first place? Judging on the quotes he does not even realize that he now works for JP MORGAN Chase.


Geez guys, stick to the shit that you actually know about, and wait until you get the story right before you write about anything else.


PS Sorry for sounding like an asshole but this needs to stop.

]]> Enough http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_is_happening_in_that_tower#c1152631 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_is_happening_in_that_tower#c1152631 Visual Art Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:03:03 -0800 Comment by Enough I am tired of this. Honestly, you all have no clue what you are talking about. You are just pulling anything out of your ass that you can find. You were speculating and even saying that "[there is] a certain cleaning-out of its own is taking place..." at WaMu Center, which it is not, not yet anyway. YOU do not know. WaMu employees do not know. Alan Fishman and Jamie Dimon do not know. Everything is up in the air right now and you feel it is your duty to speculate and write about things as though you ACTUALLY know what is going on.


People are still working in WaMu Center. Yes, Kerry Killinger's picture may have been taken down in WASHINGTON MUTUAL TOWER, which WaMu rents office space in. He is no longer CEO, why would his picture not be taken down? Do you know that there are more than two buildings downtown with WaMu offices? Get over this shit.


Honestly, report on shit when you know about shit. This is just ridiculous.


Of course your low level friend Phil knows nothing. Why would a low level employee know anything in the first place? Judging on the quotes he does not even realize that he now works for JP MORGAN Chase.


Geez guys, stick to the shit that you actually know about, and wait until you get the story right before you write about anything else.


PS Sorry for sounding like an asshole but this needs to stop.

]]> Enough http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_is_happening_in_that_tower#c1152632 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_is_happening_in_that_tower#c1152632 Visual Art Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:03:13 -0800 Comment by Enough I am tired of this. Honestly, you all have no clue what you are talking about. You are just pulling anything out of your ass that you can find. You were speculating and even saying that "[there is] a certain cleaning-out of its own is taking place..." at WaMu Center, which it is not, not yet anyway. YOU do not know. WaMu employees do not know. Alan Fishman and Jamie Dimon do not know. Everything is up in the air right now and you feel it is your duty to speculate and write about things as though you ACTUALLY know what is going on.


People are still working in WaMu Center. Yes, Kerry Killinger's picture may have been taken down in WASHINGTON MUTUAL TOWER, which WaMu rents office space in. He is no longer CEO, why would his picture not be taken down? Do you know that there are more than two buildings downtown with WaMu offices? Get over this shit.


Honestly, report on shit when you know about shit. This is just ridiculous.


Of course your low level friend Phil knows nothing. Why would a low level employee know anything in the first place? Judging on the quotes he does not even realize that he now works for JP MORGAN Chase.


Geez guys, stick to the shit that you actually know about, and wait until you get the story right before you write about anything else.


PS Sorry for sounding like an asshole but this needs to stop.

]]> Enough http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_is_happening_in_that_tower#c1152633 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_is_happening_in_that_tower#c1152633 Visual Art Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:03:30 -0800 Comment by Enough ...and no I am not spamming. If you can remove two of those posts that I put up, please do. I really do not know why it was posted up 3 times. Sorry about that.

]]> Enough http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_is_happening_in_that_tower#c1152641 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_is_happening_in_that_tower#c1152641 Visual Art Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:06:37 -0800 Comment by Fnarf If I had to guess, it's the people who work in the branches who should be worried. WaMu is fundamentally sound, but they're going to sell off a LOT of branches, and put a ton of floor space downtown up for lease too (or have the museum do it, depending on what the contracts look like).

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_is_happening_in_that_tower#c1152660 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_is_happening_in_that_tower#c1152660 Visual Art Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:19:24 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave mimi is too busy to talk to you and if she wasn't you're not worth talking to

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_is_happening_in_that_tower#c1152703 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_is_happening_in_that_tower#c1152703 Visual Art Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:42:52 -0800 Comment by Jen Graves @2: Just to be clear, the "conversion notice" was a hoax.

]]> Jen Graves http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_is_happening_in_that_tower#c1152729 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_is_happening_in_that_tower#c1152729 Visual Art Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:59:51 -0800 Comment by pragmatic She should talk to her Stepson Bill, I hear his company is in serious need of office space in Downtown Seattle.

]]> pragmatic http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_is_happening_in_that_tower#c1152761 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_is_happening_in_that_tower#c1152761 Visual Art Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:31:46 -0800 Comment by seriously Seriously, stupid, pointless article.
Mimi Gates won't talk to you, so fucking what.
Get back to looking at some "art"

]]> seriously http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_is_happening_in_that_tower#c1153051 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/what_is_happening_in_that_tower#c1153051 Visual Art Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:59:22 -0800