Vulcan Real Estate
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1986 |
| Founder | Paul Allen |
| Headquarters | , USA |
Key people | Paul Allen, Jody Allen |
| Owner | Paul Allen |
| Subsidiaries | Vulcan Sports and Entertainment Charter Communications Rose City Radio Corporation Seattle Seahawks Portland Trail Blazers Mojave Aerospace Ventures (among others) |
| Website | http://www.vulcan.com/ |
Vulcan Inc. is an investment and project management company founded in 1986 by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, to manage his investments. It is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
Holdings
The following is a partial list of investments made by Vulcan.[1]
Media
Vulcan Inc. owns Charter Communications, a telecommunications company based in Stamford, Connecticut. Dreamworks Animation was once co-owned by Vulcan, but then spun off as an independent company. Vulcan sold Oxygen Network in full to NBCUniversal in 2007. The company also owns Rose City Radio Corporation, which owns several radio stations, including KXTG-AM and KXJM-FM, which are both located in Portland, Oregon. Sporting News and Sporting News Radio are also owned by Vulcan. TechTV was formerly owned by Vulcan, but later sold to Comcast.
Museums, theatres, and galleries
- Seattle Cinerama theater
- The Hospital studios and gallery in London
- Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
- Flying Heritage Collection in Everett, Washington
- Living Computer Museum
Real estate
- 505 Union Station and Union Station (Seattle)
- Sammamish Park Place
- South Lake Union
- Enso
- Rollin Street Flats
- Veer Lofts
- 2200 Westlake
- Tempe Gateway, an eight story office building in Tempe, Arizona. It is the company's first investment outside Seattle.[2]
Technology and medicine
Technology ventures
Vulcan, Inc. has also directly led some technology projects, including the following:
Wireless spectrum
Vulcan Spectrum, a branch of Vulcan, Inc., participated in the United States 2008 wireless spectrum auction, paying $69 million for "A Block" spectrum in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton area, and $43.6 million for "A Block" spectrum in Portland-Salem.[5]
Vulcan FlipStart
In 2003, Vulcan began developing the Vulcan FlipStart, a subnotebook with a 5.6-inch screen. The company began to manufacture and sell the FlipStart in March 2007, and ceased production in May 2008.[6]
Project Halo
Project Halo[7] was a project that ran from 2002 to 2013, with the goal of creating a "digital Aristotle" that can correctly answer queries about scientific information, using artificial intelligence technology. Project Halo led to a number of spinoff technologies, including the wiki software bundle SMW+, the Semantic Inferencing on Large Knowledge (SILK) project[8] and the Automated User-Centered Reasoning and Acquisition System (AURA).[9]
References
- ^ Who Owns What: Vulcan, Columbia Journalism Review
- ^ Sunnucks, Mike (2010-06-17). "Paul Allen's Vulcan Inc. pays $35M for Tempe building".
- ^ Paur, Jason (2011-12-13). "Microsoft Billionaire Paul Allen Launches New Space Venture". Wired. New York. Archived from the original on 2011-12-14. Retrieved 2011-12-20.
- ^
Mecham, Michael; Frank Morring, Jr. (2011-12-20). "Allen Places Big Bet On Air Launches". Aviation Week. Retrieved 2011-12-23.
the ... team is still working through details of how to progress toward its 2016 first launch.
- ^ dailywireless.org » Verizon Gets the “C” Block
- ^ Is FlipStart closing up shop?, Joshua Topolsky, Engadget, May 4, 2008
- ^ Project Halo homepage
- ^ SILK homepage
- ^ "Automated User-Centered Reasoning and Acquisition System". Artificial Intelligence Center. SRI International. Retrieved 2013-06-13.