Theater Designer Converts 8,510 SQFT Wallingford Industrial Building into ExoArts Black Box Venue in Seattle
A Seattle theatrical designer has acquired a nearly 60-year-old industrial building in Wallingford and tapped one of the region’s premier cultural-space architects to...
Synergy Breaks Ground on 37-Room Candlewood Suites at Seattle’s Swedish Cherry Hill After 13-Year Wait
A long-vacant sliver of land tucked inside a hospital parking garage on Seattle’s First Hill is finally moving after more than a decade...
Wells Fargo: Fed Poised for Extended Hold as Warsh Era Opens Amid Sticky Inflation
Wells Fargo economists expect the Federal Reserve to sit on the sidelines for an extended period as new Chair Kevin Warsh takes the...
National Lab Market Turns the Corner, But Seattle Risks Being Left Behind in Uneven Recovery
The U.S. life sciences real estate market has finally bottomed out after four years of turbulence, according to JLL’s new national lab report,...
CalPERS Deploys $2.95B Across Real Estate and Infrastructure, Anchored by $2B Top-Up to GIP Redwood Platform
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System has approved nearly $3 billion in new real assets commitments, concentrating the bulk of its firepower on...
73,000 SQFT Read Products Interbay Industrial Property in Seattle Hits Market With 400,000 SQFT Development Upside
A Seattle ownership entity tied to Mark Revere’s fourth-generation packaging company has brought two long-held Interbay industrial buildings to market for the first...
Related Northwest and Centro Cultural Open 159-Unit Alder 9 Affordable Housing Community in Portland’s Central Eastside
Related Northwest and Centro Cultural have completed Alder 9, a 159-apartment affordable housing community in Portland’s Central Eastside that pairs deeply affordable rents...
BKM Capital Partners and Kayne Anderson Acquire 448,549 SQFT Kent Valley Industrial Park for $93.6MM as Part of Portfolio Deal
The $93.6 million acquisition of a portion of a Kent Valley industrial park by BKM Capital Partners and Kayne Anderson Real Estate represents...
Port of Ridgefield Plans Mixed-Use Redevelopment of 40-Acre Former Industrial Waterfront
Three decades after stepping in to remediate a shuttered industrial site that left behind one of Clark County’s most significant environmental legacies, the...
Fourth Avenue Capital Breaks Ground on 72-Unit Badger Heights Apartments in Richland
Seattle-based Fourth Avenue Capital has started construction on Badger Heights, a 72-unit garden-style apartment community inside Richland’s 1,500-acre South Badger Mountain master plan,...
Port of Seattle Opens $399MM, 145,000 SQFT C Concourse Expansion at SEA Airport, Built Up Rather Than Out
Facing one of the most space-constrained footprints of any major U.S. airport, the Port of Seattle has opened a vertical, four-story C Concourse...
Seattle Lands Among Top Five Global AI Office Markets Despite Rising Vacancy
Tech tenants leased increasing volumes of Seattle office space in 2025 as AI demand pushed the metro into the top tier of global...
Related Northwest and Centro Cultural Open 159-Unit Alder 9 Affordable Housing Community in Portland’s Central Eastside
Related Northwest and Centro Cultural have completed Alder 9, a 159-apartment affordable housing community in Portland’s Central Eastside that pairs deeply affordable rents...
Port of Ridgefield Plans Mixed-Use Redevelopment of 40-Acre Former Industrial Waterfront
Three decades after stepping in to remediate a shuttered industrial site that left behind one of Clark County’s most significant environmental legacies, the...
Clackamas County Breaks Ground on 200-Home Cottage-Cluster Rebuild of 1940s Clackamas Heights in Oregon City
The Housing Authority of Clackamas County has launched construction on a full redevelopment of its Depression-era Clackamas Heights site in Oregon City, replacing...
Norris & Stevens Renews Downtown Portland Office Lease at Standard Insurance Center
The Portland brokerage firm’s first renewal at Standard Center — where it has operated since 2015 — comes after it evaluated suburban alternatives,...
Seattle Cracks Top Five U.S. Downtowns for Stickiness as Portland Lags on Vibrancy, Gensler Finds
Seattle landed among the five most magnetic downtowns in the United States in Gensler’s latest global study of urban experience, even as neighboring...
Portland Construction Costs Rise Just 0.86 Percent in Q1 2026 as Market Trails National Escalation
Portland’s nonresidential construction costs increased a modest 0.86 percent in the first quarter of 2026 and 2.55 percent year-over-year—the slowest annual escalation among...
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2026 Pacific Northwest CRE Rising Stars
Celebrating the Next Generation of Commercial Real Estate Excellence From the tech epicenters of Seattle and Portland to the industrial ports of...
Continue ReadingWells Fargo: Fed Poised for Extended Hold as Warsh Era Opens Amid Sticky Inflation
Wells Fargo economists expect the Federal Reserve to sit on the sidelines for an extended period as new Chair Kevin Warsh takes the...
Cresa Portland Adds BC Group in Push to Build One-Stop Advisory Platform
The merger folds the 22-year-old development and construction management firm into Cresa’s Portland office, extending an acquisition streak aimed at occupier clients across...
Construction Lenders Confront a Shifting Risk Map in 2026 as Data Center Race, PFAS Liability and Permitting Delays Reshape Underwriting
Construction risk has not disappeared from the lending landscape heading into 2026—it has migrated into new territory, from the breakneck data center buildout...
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...
March’s Jobs Report and the Art of Misdirection
Behind the rosy March employment headline, a quiet exodus: nearly 400,000 Americans gave up on the job market in a single month. By...
The Seven Bills Governor Ferguson Signed That Actually Matter (For Our Industry)
By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous) There’s an old magician’s trick—old as in Roman Coliseum old—called misdirection. While the...
Shovel-Ready, 128-Unit Tukwila West Hill Development Site Hits the Market in South King County
A fully permitted, 128-unit apartment development site in Tukwila has reached the market with construction drawings complete and permits ready for pickup, offering...
SRM Development Lands $48.5MM Refinance on 178-Unit Gridline Apartments in Seattle’s Capitol Hill
SRM Development has retired the construction debt on its leased-up Gridline Apartments in Capitol Hill, closing a $48.5 million permanent loan from a...
BRIDGE Housing Acquires 108-Unit Latitude Apartments in Everett with Plans to Convert All Units to Affordable Housing
Supported by Amazon, the acquisition of Latitude Apartments will create deeply affordable housing near major employment centers in the costly Seattle region SAN...
Infill Retail and Grocery Owners Land EV Fast-Charging Leases the Big REITs Can’t Reach
A surge of letters of intent for DC fast charging is flowing to single-property and small-portfolio retail and grocery owners in high-adoption markets,...
Bellevue School District Files Plans for Construction of 140,000 SQFT School in Wilburton Neighborhood
With land use applications now filed with the City of Bellevue, the Bellevue School District is advancing plans to demolish the aging International...
Lee & Associates Pacific Northwest Taps Developer Scott Hutchinson as President, Bowles Moves to Executive Managing Director
Lee & Associates Pacific Northwest has installed developer and operator Scott Hutchinson as its new president, handing day-to-day command of its Washington brokerage...
Redmond Acquires 9.1-Acre Site from Heidelberg Materials for $38.5MM to Build New Maintenance and Operations Center
City Council Approves Acquisition of 9.1 Acres from Heidelberg Materials (Editor’s Note: CBRE PNW Capital Markets’ Tom Pehl, Charles Safley and Jeff Hodson...
Gensler Brands Seattle’s 4.25-Mile Unity Loop to Steer World Cup Crowds Into Neighborhood Storefronts
As Seattle prepares to host six FIFA World Cup matches at Lumen Field beginning June 15, Gensler Seattle has delivered the visual identity...
