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How A Text Message Ruined A Seattle Skyscraper Deal

caption: Jon Grant, a candidate for Seattle City Council position 8, said he was approached by developer to settle a land deal in downtown Seattle.
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Jon Grant, a candidate for Seattle City Council position 8, said he was approached by developer to settle a land deal in downtown Seattle.
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Jeannie Yandel speaks with political reporter Josh Feit about how a downtown land deal was felled by a text message. Feit is the politics editor at Seattle Met magazine and founder/editor of their politics blog PubliCola.

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