Analysis: Bevy of suitors emerge to take over the Potala Tower project

U.S. District Court Judge James L. Robart will be in the middle of a metaphorical scrum Thursday when he hears arguments over what should happen to the stalled Potala Tower project in downtown Seattle.

Earlier, Robart gave Potala Tower receiver Michael A. Grassmueck partial OK to find someone to buy or take over the project. Grassmueck got 13 offers, but the identities of just two of them – Seattle-based Vulcan and a joint venture of a Chinese company called Binjiang and Molasky of Las Vegas –…