Seattle Study Weighs Removing SR 99 Through South Park, Freeing 100 Acres for Housing and Parks
A city-commissioned study lays out four futures for a roughly three-mile stretch of State Route 99 in Seattle’s South Park neighborhood, with the...
Bellevue Anchors Puget Sound Office Rebound as Regional Vacancy Climbs to 23.4% in Q2 2026
A widening split defined the Puget Sound office market in the second quarter of 2026, with Bellevue’s AI-fueled leasing surge and a thinning...
BRIDGE Housing Acquires 108-Unit Latitude Apartments in Everett for $25.4MM with Plans to Convert All Units to Affordable Housing
(Editor’s Note: According to Snohomish County public records, the sales price was $25.35 million, or about $234,700 per unit. The seller was an...
World Cup Drives More Than 3MM Visitors to Downtown Seattle Across Six Match Days, Lifting Transit and Hotel Demand
Downtown Seattle absorbed a surge of more than 3 million visitors during the six 2026 FIFA World Cup matches it hosted, a 17...
Dairy Queen Hunts Drive-Thru Pads in Arlington and Snohomish as Grill & Chill Push Reaches North Puget Sound
Dairy Queen has retained First Western Properties to scout drive-thru development pads and existing sites in Arlington and Snohomish, Washington, extending the chain’s...
Plymouth Poultry Signs 72,000 SQFT Cold Storage Lease at Former Dreyer’s Plant in Kent
A scarce owner-operated freezer facility draws multiple bidders even as the surrounding Kent Valley industrial market sits at record-high vacancy, highlighting a growing...
Related Northwest, Clackamas County Break Ground on 164 Affordable Homes at Milwaukie’s Hillside Park
Related Northwest and the Housing Authority of Clackamas County will break ground July 23 on the next phase of the 14-acre Hillside Park...
American Capital Group Plans 378-Unit Apartment Project at Bellevue’s Brierwood Center Near Light Rail
American Capital Group’s design-review filing turns a 1960s retail strip into the latest bet on Wilburton’s transit-driven housing boom, joining more than 2,300...
Former FOX 13 Studio and Candy Factory at 1813 Westlake Ave N on Market for Redevelopment
CBRE positions the soon-to-be-vacant broadcast studio as a redevelopment play in a South Lake Union corridor where AI tenants are absorbing space even...
$16.5MM Loan Secured for $30MM Purchase of 155,000 SQFT Meadowlark Industrial Center in Cornelius, Ore.
A private investor has locked in long-term, fixed-rate debt on one of the priciest industrial trades in Oregon history, betting that a single-tenant...
107-Unit Boulder Park Apartment Community Lists at $18MM in University Place
Boulder Park, a 107-unit apartment community in University Place built in 1974, has been listed at $18 million with seller financing attached, testing...
Seattle Ranks as Nation’s No. 3 AI Metro in Hubble Study as Tech Tenants Anchor Puget Sound Office Recovery
Hubble’s new ranking of the most AI-ready U.S. metros names Seattle the country’s third-strongest AI hub and the highest-scoring market outside the Bay...
Related Northwest, Clackamas County Break Ground on 164 Affordable Homes at Milwaukie’s Hillside Park
Related Northwest and the Housing Authority of Clackamas County will break ground July 23 on the next phase of the 14-acre Hillside Park...
$16.5MM Loan Secured for $30MM Purchase of 155,000 SQFT Meadowlark Industrial Center in Cornelius, Ore.
A private investor has locked in long-term, fixed-rate debt on one of the priciest industrial trades in Oregon history, betting that a single-tenant...
Community Partners for Affordable Housing Breaks Ground on 104-Unit Meadowlark Place Senior Housing Project in Downtown Beaverton
Community Partners for Affordable Housing and DCM Communities have started construction on a six-story, 104-unit affordable housing community for older adults at the...
Pacific Region Posts Steepest Single-Family Rent Decline in Nation at 3.2% as Seasonal Leasing Lift Vanishes
The Pacific region recorded the sharpest single-family rent correction of any U.S. region during the first half of 2026, with median asking rents...
Verrus Proposes Oakline Data Center Campus in Salem’s Mill Creek Corporate Center
Verrus is pitching a three-building data center campus for a Heritage Oak-studded corner of Salem’s Mill Creek Corporate Center, betting that a battery-backed,...
Boys & Girls Clubs of Portland Lists 10,000 SQFT Regence Club in North Portland as Deficits Deepen
Facing a fifth consecutive year of operating losses and a shrinking donor base, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Portland Metropolitan Area has...
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Seattle Study Weighs Removing SR 99 Through South Park, Freeing 100 Acres for Housing and Parks
A city-commissioned study lays out four futures for a roughly three-mile stretch of State Route 99 in Seattle’s South Park neighborhood, with the...
Puget Sound Office Leasing Reaches 4.6MM SQFT in First Half, Strongest Since 2019 as Availability Slides to 26.5%
The Seattle/Puget Sound office market posted 2.4 million square feet of leasing in the second quarter of 2026 and 4.6 million square feet...
Puget Sound Industrial Vacancy Climbs Across All Submarkets, But Deal Flow Signals Tenants Have Stopped Waiting
Vacancy rates rose across South Seattle, Greater King County and Pierce County in the latest 60-day reading of the Puget Sound industrial market,...
McNellis: In Denial Over the New Normal
By John McNellis Developers always crash and burn in the movies. The eternal bad guy, the developers’ heinous plans to pave a beach,...
Seattle v. Bellevue: The Tortoise Wears a Patagonia Vest
Bellevue is trouncing Seattle on occupancy, but occupancy is the lagging indicator—and the talent that fills tomorrow’s offices still wants the messy city...
The Art of the Quiet Exit, A Hudson Pacific Story
Hudson Pacific’s COO resigned with the usual boilerplate denial attached—but after a $572 million annual loss, a scrapped dividend and a stock down...
A Shot in the (Life Science) Arm for Puget Sound
Eli Lilly’s $1.5 billion cash deal for Bothell-based Curevo Vaccine is the kind of validating, capital-attracting exit Puget Sound’s life sciences cluster has...
The Data Center Bargain: What Every Town Should Demand
Free power. Free heat. Clean water. The bargain every town should be demanding. By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous)...
The Geography of Want: Why Starbucks Can’t Drag Its People to Nashville
By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous) There’s an old joke about the Boston banker who, told he must relocate...
Q&A: Truebeck’s Mass Timber Parking Study Tackles Durability, Carbon Reduction and Cost Head-On
A study with WRNS Studio, Holmes, Stantec and Walker Consultants argues concrete’s default building type has the most room to cut carbon —...
Community Partners for Affordable Housing Breaks Ground on 104-Unit Meadowlark Place Senior Housing Project in Downtown Beaverton
Community Partners for Affordable Housing and DCM Communities have started construction on a six-story, 104-unit affordable housing community for older adults at the...
City of Kenmore Grants Approval for bConnections’ Site Plan for 63-Unit Residential Tower
A former fintech CEO’s real estate venture has cleared a key hurdle for an eight-story apartment building in downtown Kenmore, advancing a project...
Popeyes Hunts Drive-Thru Pads of 30,000 SQFT in Lake Stevens, Snohomish as Chicken Chain Pushes North Into Snohomish County
Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen has put two of Snohomish County’s fastest-expanding suburbs in its sights, retaining First Western Properties to source drive-thru pads and...
Pacific Region Posts Steepest Single-Family Rent Decline in Nation at 3.2% as Seasonal Leasing Lift Vanishes
The Pacific region recorded the sharpest single-family rent correction of any U.S. region during the first half of 2026, with median asking rents...
Mercer Distribution Services Renews 100,000 SQFT in Fife, Where Sublease Space Has Hit 6% and Keeps Climbing
Mercer Distribution Services, operator of what it bills as the Pacific Northwest’s largest Class 3 customs bonded warehouse and a centralized exam station...
Hermanson Company Lands 106,000 SQFT New Lease in Kent, One of Only Two New Deals Among the Quarter’s Biggest
Hermanson Company, the Kent-based mechanical contractor that has built HVAC, piping and plumbing systems across the Pacific Northwest since 1979, has signed a...
Krafter’s Land Cabinetry Signs 101,000 SQFT New Lease on Renton’s Lind Avenue as the District Bucks the Kent Valley Slide
Krafter’s Land Cabinetry, the fast-growing Puget Sound cabinet and surfaces supplier that has opened showrooms in Tukwila, Lynnwood and Tacoma since incorporating in...
