Here’s another WaMu update on a subject that will likely have a large impact on downtown’s commercial real estate scene: Seattle Times: JPMorgan dumping WaMu’s leased space in Seattle Seattle P-I: JPMorgan dropping six WaMu leases in Seattle From the P-I story: New York banking giant JPMorgan Chase & Co., which in September bought the…
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Official WaMu Layoff Count Announced
Photo by The Tim The official layoff count for WaMu was made public today. According to various news sources, JPMorgan Chase will be cutting 3,400 jobs in Seattle. JPMorgan Chase is laying off 3,400 Washington Mutual employees in Seattle, according to spokesman Tom Kelly. That’s more than 80 percent of the 4,300 people it employs…
Seattle Times: JPM to Cut ~70% of WaMu HQ Employees
Photo by Flickr user S x 2 According to today’s Seattle Times, JPMorgan Chase plans to cut around 70% of WaMu’s Seattle-area employees. JPMorgan is handing out layoff notices now and is expected to finish making decisions about all of WaMu’s 43,200 employees nationwide by Dec. 1. As many as 3,000 of WaMu’s 4,200 workers…
Former WaMu Pres. Tries to Flip Mansion
Okay, I had this story emailed or IM’d to me by about half a dozen people over the weekend, so I guess I’d better at least mention it :^) Former WaMu president lists home for nearly 2x 2005 purchase price: Stephen Rotella, who was president and chief operating officer of Washington Mutual when it failed…
WaMu Exec Warned Board of Pending Collapse Years Ago
Interesting story from NPR: Washington Mutual Executive Predicted Collapse For casual observers, bank collapses like this one [WaMu] may seem to have appeared out of the blue. But for executives like William Longbrake, who worked at Washington Mutual for 26 years before September’s tumult, the collapse looked more like a slow unraveling. Longbrake served as…