Jeffrey Braun Furniture, a furniture design and manufacturing company that recently moved from Seattle to Tacoma’s Theater District, is hosting an open house and grand opening next Thursday.
Braun started his furniture design and manufacturing company in Seattle six years ago. The Brauns relocated to 728 Broadway, Suite 2A, last December.
Jeffrey Braun Furniture isn't a retail store. It’s a showroom that demonstrates possibilities, with an assortment of furniture from the company's line, hundreds of fabric samples and a half-built chair that shows how the furniture is constructed.
The Brauns say their new location is proving to be profitable despite the shaky national economy. Ten of Braun’s designs were recently installed in the Paramount Hotel in downtown Seattle, and the company is currently working on a large condominium project in Denver.
Locally, Jeffrey and Lindsay are working with several interior designers and recently collaborated with designer Pam Sturgill to create three custom pieces of furniture for South Sound Magazine's 2008 Idea House.
Thursday’s grand opening will consist of an open house from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m., and an evening reception from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
For more information, visit www.jeffreybraun.com or call 253-627-1354.

The economic distress that has hit the economy and the airline industry in particular still hasn't reared its head at Sea-Tac Airport where passenger traffic is up 6.35 percent through July.

Translated into people, that's 1,130,147 more passengers who've used the airport this year so far than last year.

International travel in particular was up substantially, 12.69 percent, this year at the airport, Sea-Tac figures show.

More than 1.72 million international passengers moved through Sea-Tac through July compared with the same period last year.

Sea-Tac has added several new non-stop international flights in the last year to Beijing, Mexico City, Paris, Frankfurt, Prince George, B.C. and a third flight to London.

If you're looking for a business jet with the floor space of a two-bedroom condominium and the range to fly from Seattle to Athens non-stop, Boeing's got a new offering for you.

The Boeing Business Jet 3, or BBJ3, offers 1,120 square feet of floor space and some 6,250 miles of non-stop range.

The first of the BBJ3s rolled out Boeing's Renton plant this month and is now in Delaware where it is being outfitted with an auxiliary fuel system and a head-up instrument display.

The BBJ 3 is based on Boeing's largest commercial 737, the 737-900ER. After a two-month certification testing procedure, the first BBJ3 will move to a completition center for interior installations.

The first BBJ3 is expected to be delivered to an unnamed customer in 2009.

The cost of a BBJ3 can be as much as $80 million depending on the cost of the interior and custom features added to the plane.

As a commercial aircraft the 737-900ER can carry as many as 215 passengers in an all-economy configuration.

An order for 26 Boeing 737-800s from American Airlines fattened Boeing's 2008 order book to 577 planes this week.

That American order was six aircraft larger than American had previously revealed. The Fort Worth-based airline is in a rush to replace its fuel-guzzling MD-80s with more modern and fuel-stingy 737s.

The American order brings the 737 order total for the year to 449. The 737 is the most popular of Boeing's line of airliners.

The second most popular this year is the 787 with 78 orders. Following the 787 in popularity is the 777 with 46 orders and the 747 and 767 with two each.

At the current order rate through the first seven and a half months of the year, Boeing will net about 950 orders for the year, nowhere near the 1,400 pace of last year, but a very healthy year by historic standards.