Crane Collapse in Seattle Casts Pall Over City’s Rapid Growth

The crane collapse in the heart of Seattle’s tech hub April 27 ended four lives, cast a pall on the city’s rapid expansion and may lead to tens in millions of dollars of costs for a building that Alphabet Inc.’s Google is set to occupy.

The crash came at around 3:30 p.m. local time when a tower crane that was being dismantled fell from the top of a nearly completed building in the South Lake Union neighborhood onto a busy arterial leading to Interstate 5, the area’s main highway. The building is part of a new Google campus and was ...