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New tower takes cues for its loos from Seattle most famous bathroom

The famous women’s restroom atop Seattle’s Columbia Center has some competition for the best view from a restroom in the city.

It’s from the Premiere on Pine, the new 40-story luxury apartment tower on Pine Street at Ninth Avenue. On the top floor is a club for residents, the Forty@400. There’s an outdoor seating area, an indoor club room with three 80-inch screens with TV controls in the wall and a large kitchen.

But it’s the restroom that people likely will be talking about. The developer, Holland…

Uber partners with UMd.

The University of Maryland has entered into a partnership with ride-sharing tech company Uber, which will make a $25,000 investment to create a student-run incubator space, the university announced.

The incubator, called Student Shell, will also function as a co-working space and includes an “innovation council” to crowdsource development ideas from students and faculty, according to a release. Uber will award grants to student-created companies over the next two years.

Uber also plans to experiment…

Headquarters building for USfalcon, Tenax Therapeutics sold for $16.5M

A Virginia Beach real estate investor that made a big push into the Triangle last fall with the purchase of four office buildings has bought another: The six-story Concourse building near the airport.

Continental Capital Partners of Virginia Beach paid $16.5 million for the 132,268-square-foot office building at One Copley Parkway in Morrisville, according to county records. The seller was Raleigh investor A.E. Nivison.

CCP in October had paid $37.3 million for four office buildings in Durham,…

$2 billion Cheniere Energy shareholder suit comes to a close

The shareholder class action complaint against Houston-based Cheniere Energy Inc. (NYSE: LNG) and many of its top executives over $2 billion worth of stock awards has been settled.

The settlement that came out of Delaware’s Court of Chancery said the company wouldn’t be able to ask shareholders for additional stock grants before 2017. The settlement also awarded the plaintiffs in the case $5.5 million in fees paid by Cheniere.

The complaint alleged that a Feb. 1, 2013, stockholder vote to nearly…

Virginia Indian tribe's quest for federal recognition raises business, casino questions

A Virginia Indian tribe will learn by the end of the month if the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs will recognize it as a federal tribe. If the Pamunkey Tribe gets the nod, it will make it the first in Virginia to do so.

The recognition would not only be of major historical significance for the 200-plus-member tribe located to the east of Richmond, but also economic. The status would make it eligible for federal money to provide housing, education and health care.

But, as The Washington Post reports,…