Among the fascinating people we met at the DCI Engineers Open House the other week was Matt Laase, who spent 3.5 years in Russia designing IKEA's mega-shopping complexes. Now back in Seattle, Matt has launched his own firm, Studio12s, doing design, business management and consulting in the development arena. His timing is fortuitous--"I think things are really looking up," he tells us. "2012 is done. Let's get going." We asked what the 's' in Studio12s stood for--Siberia, maybe? Actually, says Matt, it's "sandwich."
Tolls on I-90? Really? We might have to start swimming across the lake to get to Bel-Square. Blythe.lawrence@bisnow.com.
