Downtown Seattle Ranks Fourth-Stickiest in the U.S. in Gensler’s City Pulse 2026
Downtown Seattle ranked as the fourth-stickiest downtown in the United States in Gensler’s global study of urban experience, a top-tier showing that sets...
Alaska Airlines Breaks Ground on $150MM, 185,000-SQFT Maintenance Hangar at Portland International Airport
Alaska Airlines has started construction on a $150 million aircraft maintenance hangar at Portland International Airport, the carrier’s largest signal yet that it...
High Street Residential Breaks Ground on 369-Unit Transit-Oriented Community at Beaverton’s Cedar Hills Shopping Center
A Trammell Crow Company-led joint venture has started construction on a 369-unit mixed-use apartment community that will replace most of the 1950s-era Cedar...
Blazers Owner Dundon Refuses Private Cash for $600MM Moda Center Overhaul as Portland’s August Deadline Nears
New Trail Blazers owner Tom Dundon told a record Portland Metro Chamber crowd that he will not contribute private money toward the Moda...
Lacey’s Meridian Market & Gas Breaks Ground at Willamette and Campus Glen Four Years After Approval
Site work has finally started on a convenience store and fueling station in northeast Lacey whose contentious 2022 approval so inflamed residents that...
MG Properties Pays $60.8MM for 337-Unit Gresham Apartment Portfolio
Buying at roughly $180,400 per unit — below the Portland metro’s current average sales price — MG Properties is adding to a 13-community...
Puget Sound’s $50MM-Plus Building Pipeline Swells to Nearly 60 Projects, Led by Bellevue’s $2.6B Spring District
A new tally of the region’s active construction shows nearly 60 projects each carrying price tags above $50 million, with public infrastructure, airport...
West Marine to Close Tigard Store, Oregon’s Lone Casualty in 59-Store Chapter 11 Restructuring
West Marine will close its Tigard store in the Portland suburbs, the only Oregon location on a 59-store national hit list as the...
Scannell Properties Pays $6.5MM for Hillsboro Site, Launches 126,000 SQFT Spec Industrial Warehouse
With Intel’s foundry business staging a dramatic comeback and DSV already breaking ground down the street, Scannell Properties is betting that Hillsboro’s semiconductor...
Seattle Economic Development Chief Signals Retreat From JumpStart Tax Expansion as Downtown Vacancy Tops 30%
Seattle’s new economic development director, Beto Yarce, says the city is exploring revenue options other than expanding its JumpStart payroll tax, even as...
190-Unit Multifamily Development Site in Seattle’s Urban Core Listed for Sale
A New York-based ownership entity is bringing a nearly half-century-old parking garage in Seattle’s Belltown corridor to market as a 190-unit multifamily development...
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...
Alaska Airlines Breaks Ground on $150MM, 185,000-SQFT Maintenance Hangar at Portland International Airport
Alaska Airlines has started construction on a $150 million aircraft maintenance hangar at Portland International Airport, the carrier’s largest signal yet that it...
High Street Residential Breaks Ground on 369-Unit Transit-Oriented Community at Beaverton’s Cedar Hills Shopping Center
A Trammell Crow Company-led joint venture has started construction on a 369-unit mixed-use apartment community that will replace most of the 1950s-era Cedar...
Blazers Owner Dundon Refuses Private Cash for $600MM Moda Center Overhaul as Portland’s August Deadline Nears
New Trail Blazers owner Tom Dundon told a record Portland Metro Chamber crowd that he will not contribute private money toward the Moda...
MG Properties Pays $60.8MM for 337-Unit Gresham Apartment Portfolio
Buying at roughly $180,400 per unit — below the Portland metro’s current average sales price — MG Properties is adding to a 13-community...
West Marine to Close Tigard Store, Oregon’s Lone Casualty in 59-Store Chapter 11 Restructuring
West Marine will close its Tigard store in the Portland suburbs, the only Oregon location on a 59-store national hit list as the...
Scannell Properties Pays $6.5MM for Hillsboro Site, Launches 126,000 SQFT Spec Industrial Warehouse
With Intel’s foundry business staging a dramatic comeback and DSV already breaking ground down the street, Scannell Properties is betting that Hillsboro’s semiconductor...
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Downtown Seattle Ranks Fourth-Stickiest in the U.S. in Gensler’s City Pulse 2026
Downtown Seattle ranked as the fourth-stickiest downtown in the United States in Gensler’s global study of urban experience, a top-tier showing that sets...
Seattle Economic Development Chief Signals Retreat From JumpStart Tax Expansion as Downtown Vacancy Tops 30%
Seattle’s new economic development director, Beto Yarce, says the city is exploring revenue options other than expanding its JumpStart payroll tax, even as...
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...
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...
McNellis: F*** Real Estate?
Publisher’s Note What began over a decade ago as a series of candid, sharp-witted articles written for The Registry has grown into one of the...
Entitled 102-Unit Multifamily Development Site in Bellevue Listed for Sale as AI Boom and Light Rail Reshape Eastside Demand
East Link’s arrival, a thinning construction pipeline, and a flood of AI-driven office leasing have redrawn the demand map for Downtown Bellevue —...
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...
Euclid Development’s 139-Unit Tanager Apartments Moves Toward Occupancy in Seattle’s Capitol Hill
Euclid Development’s Tanager Apartments at 1314 E. Union St. has received its temporary certificate of occupancy, completing one of Capitol Hill’s only new...
Capstone Partners, PGIM Request to Withdraw Bellevue Design Approval for 328-Unit Tower to Position Under New Affordable Housing Code
Capstone Partners and PGIM have strategically withdrawn design review approval for their 27-story, 328-unit residential tower at 305 108th Avenue NE in downtown...
EQT Exeter Acquires 150,154 SQFT Everett Manufacturing Property for $37.7MM
With the acquisition of a tenant-occupied Everett manufacturing building, EQT Exeter has extended its Puget Sound industrial buying streak into Snohomish County —...
Dwight Capital Lands $39MM HUD Loan to Refinance Pahlisch’s 174-Unit Timberview Community in Oregon City
Pahlisch Commercial has replaced the construction-era bridge debt on its newly built Timberview Apartments and Townhomes outside Portland with permanent, federally backed financing,...
KB Home Leans on Built to Order as Puget Sound Inventory Swells and Buyers Gain Leverage
KB Home is expanding its Seattle-area footprint into a Puget Sound market that is tilting decisively toward buyers, betting that its order-first sales...
Four-Property, 986-Unit Eugene Multifamily Portfolio Secures $128.23MM in Fannie Mae Refinancing
A 986-unit slate of four Eugene apartment communities reset its debt with $128.23 million in Fannie Mae financing, locking in terms just 25...
