If Amazon exercises all of its options, it may spend as much as $1.5 billion under a 16-year agreement to lease 11 buildings in South Lake Union, a lakefront neighborhood a little more than a mile north of downtown.
The New York-based video-game publisher has decided that after several months of strategic review of its options, it would rather remain an independent company.
The company has not yet revealed the price for the i3 or any of its options, but it is likely to be well under $40,000.
Although AT&T has said it wants to reduce its $62 billion debt, in part by selling nonstrategic assets, a review of its options makes it clear that completing such sales will not be easy.
Circuit City made it clear that it was considering all of its options, and not just the Blockbuster offer.
TransCanada, the company behind the pipeline, tried to staunch its bleeding share price by saying it would "review all of its options".
In February, DaimlerChrysler announced that it was keeping all of its options open for Chrysler, including a sale or finding a partner to run the company.
IAG has previously said that if it cannot sell the two units it will shut them down, but now says that it is reviewing all of its options and that talk of job losses would be premature.
DOE is conducting a study of its options and hopes to have it finished by June, in time to incorporate a plan into its 2013 budget request, says William Brinkman, head of DOE's Office of Science.
In written responses to questions, the museum said it was "pursuing and assessing all of its options," including talks with Mr. Broad and with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art about possible partnerships.
It then put the project on hold while it carried out a "strategic review of its options".
