City council passes personal guarantee cap legislation

Dec 15, 2023 | News

On Dec. 12, Seattle City Council voted 6-2 to pass CB 120643, which places a cap of two years of base rent plus the cost of tenant improvements on personal guaranty in commercial leases. This legislation will lower the barrier of entry for new small businesses and...

RSVP for our January SRA membership meeting

Dec 15, 2023 | Meeting and Events, SRA Events

This month, we’ll be joined by Tara Peters and Lily Sadataki from Commute Seattle who will be giving a presentation about the ORCA Passport Program. This is an exciting program that businesses can offer employees to assist in their transportation needs and can act as...

Seattle Business License Fees for 2024

Nov 16, 2023 | News

This week Seattle City Finance announced updated business license fees for 2024. Each year there is a potential increase to the business license tax certificate fee based on the annual Consumer Price Index. This caused the annual license fees to increase for 2024....

What you missed: November membership meeting

Nov 2, 2023 | Meeting and Events, SRA Events

Many thanks to Stanford’s Northgate for hosting the Seattle Restaurant Alliance November meeting. We were happy to be joined by Oliver Kotelnikov and Sally Bergesen from our monthly sponsor IBA, who shared about the services they offer. Here are a few resources and...

New parking rates in Seattle are going into effect Monday Oct 23. Here’s the latest information we received from the Seattle Department of Transportation:

Oct 23, 2023 | News

Our latest seasonal paid parking rate adjustments will take effect in business districts around the city on Oct. 23. This third adjustment in 2023 continues our process to use the latest parking data to help ensure enough parking spaces are available. We collected...