Greystar Takes Over Fully Entitled 219-Unit Belltown Apartment Project at 3000 Western in Seattle, Replacing Washington Holdings
Greystar has stepped into one of Belltown's most prominently sited apartment developments, going under contract for a fully entitled 219-unit project across from...
Steinhauer Properties Refinances 209,000 SQFT Office and 282-Room Hotel for $107MM in Seattle
Steinhauer Properties refinances its 255 South King Street office and Embassy Suites hotel complex in Seattle for $107 million.
Amazon Bankrolls $150,000 Free Electric Shuttle Linking Light Rail to Downtown Bellevue
Visit Bellevue has launched a free, Amazon-funded electric shuttle from the Downtown light rail station, betting that solving the last-mile gap will keep...
Kitsap PUD Sends Public Power Measure to November Ballot, Testing Puget Sound Energy’s Grip on 130,000 Customers
The Kitsap Public Utility District’s board has voted to let county voters decide whether the public agency should have the authority to enter...
King County Assessor Candidates Line Up Behind Homestead Exemption That Would Shift Tax Burden to Commercial Owners
The four candidates running to replace John Wilson as King County assessor have coalesced around a universal homestead exemption that would cut tax...
Washington’s HB 1110 Head Start Positions the Puget Sound to Cash In on New Federal Housing Law
Washington’s early move to end single-family-only zoning may prove to be the region’s biggest advantage under the new federal housing law, which floods...
HomeGoods Signs Portland’s Largest Retail Lease of 2Q 2026 with 18,000 SQFT at Gresham Station
HomeGoods claimed the biggest retail lease signed anywhere in the Portland market during the second quarter of 2026, committing to 18,300 square feet...
The Hilltop Taps ZGF Architects to Design The Grotto Concert Hall Above the Columbia in Quincy
The nonprofit founded by the couple behind the Gorge Amphitheatre has hired Portland’s ZGF Architects to design a 1,200-seat concert hall on the...
King County Assessor Candidates Line Up Behind Homestead Exemption That Would Shift Tax Burden to Commercial Owners
The four candidates running to replace John Wilson as King County assessor have coalesced around a universal homestead exemption that would cut tax...
Washington’s HB 1110 Head Start Positions the Puget Sound to Cash In on New Federal Housing Law
Washington’s early move to end single-family-only zoning may prove to be the region’s biggest advantage under the new federal housing law, which floods...
Washington County, Tualatin Float SIP Tax Break to Anchor Lam Research’s $1.7B TuX Expansion
Washington County and the City of Tualatin have proposed a Strategic Investment Program tax abatement designed to lock in as much as $1.7...
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...
HomeGoods Signs Portland’s Largest Retail Lease of 2Q 2026 with 18,000 SQFT at Gresham Station
HomeGoods claimed the biggest retail lease signed anywhere in the Portland market during the second quarter of 2026, committing to 18,300 square feet...
Jmk Fuel Acquires 3,000 SQFT Wood Village Fuel and Convenience Property from J & B Petroleum for $6.48MM
A 2,921-square-foot fuel and convenience property in Wood Village, Ore., traded for $6.48 million during the second quarter, ranking as the second-largest retail...
Washington County, Tualatin Float SIP Tax Break to Anchor Lam Research’s $1.7B TuX Expansion
Washington County and the City of Tualatin have proposed a Strategic Investment Program tax abatement designed to lock in as much as $1.7...
Portland Weighs $650MM Two-Venue Plan for New PSU Theater and Downsized Keller Auditorium
Portland's City Council delayed action on the region's biggest cultural project in years after Mayor Keith Wilson proposed keeping both a new Portland...
Daimler Truck to End Portland Manufacturing on Swan Island, Cutting 375 Jobs Weeks After Opening $40MM Engineering Hub
Daimler Truck North America will halt Freightliner and Western Star assembly on Portland's Swan Island this fall, cutting 375 jobs and shifting production...
Blue Ocean Globe Leases 58,000 SQFT in Tualatin as I-5 Corridor Absorbs Portland’s Deepest Industrial Losses
Blue Ocean Globe’s 57,757-square-foot commitment at 11950 SW Leveton Dr ranked as the fifth-largest industrial lease signed in the Portland market during the...
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Continue ReadingKitsap PUD Sends Public Power Measure to November Ballot, Testing Puget Sound Energy’s Grip on 130,000 Customers
The Kitsap Public Utility District’s board has voted to let county voters decide whether the public agency should have the authority to enter...
Essex Property Trust Settles RealPage Rent-Algorithm Antitrust Case for $36.5MM
Essex Property Trust used its second-quarter earnings report to disclose it had fully resolved the closely watched antitrust claims tied to RealPage’s rent-setting...
Clark County Absorbs 346,000 SQFT While Portland Sheds 868,000 SQFT, Splitting the Industrial Market in Two
Clark County absorbed 345,587 square feet in 2Q 2026 while metro Portland gave back 867,770, splitting the region's industrial market in two.
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...
King County Housing Authority Announces Groundbreaking on 154-Unit Trailhead Apartments in Issaquah
Nearly a decade after the city first solicited proposals for the site, the King County Housing Authority has started construction on an eight-story...
Portland Weighs $650MM Two-Venue Plan for New PSU Theater and Downsized Keller Auditorium
Portland's City Council delayed action on the region's biggest cultural project in years after Mayor Keith Wilson proposed keeping both a new Portland...
Daimler Truck to End Portland Manufacturing on Swan Island, Cutting 375 Jobs Weeks After Opening $40MM Engineering Hub
Daimler Truck North America will halt Freightliner and Western Star assembly on Portland's Swan Island this fall, cutting 375 jobs and shifting production...
South Sound Industrial Pipeline Swells to 5.8MM SQFT at Midyear as Big-Box Projects Push South into Lewis County
Lee & Associates' midyear 2026 report shows nearly 5.83 million square feet of industrial space under construction across the South Sound, with capital...
Blue Ocean Globe Leases 58,000 SQFT in Tualatin as I-5 Corridor Absorbs Portland’s Deepest Industrial Losses
Blue Ocean Globe’s 57,757-square-foot commitment at 11950 SW Leveton Dr ranked as the fifth-largest industrial lease signed in the Portland market during the...
Rivian Leases 60,000 SQFT in Beaverton, Portland’s Fourth-Largest Industrial Deal of Q2
Rivian’s 60,000-square-foot lease at 5051 SW Western Ave. extends the electric-vehicle maker’s Pacific Northwest service and logistics network south from Puget Sound into...
Rainbow Terrace to Replace Demolished Everett Church With All-Affordable Senior Units
Housing Hope’s Rainbow Terrace was one of six projects to share $23 million in Snohomish County housing and behavioral health grants awarded in...
Brokers Turn to Autonomous AI Agents to Automate Rent Comp Tracking
Commercial real estate brokers are increasingly handing rote market research to autonomous AI agents that assemble proprietary comp databases and monitor rival properties...
