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UW’s Iconic Suzzallo Library Gets a $21.5MM Seismic Overhaul to Survive the Next Century in Seattle

The University of Washington is spending $21.5 million to anchor Suzzallo Library’s masonry, towers and 18 exterior statues against the next major Cascadia...

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...

Tacoma’s Museum of Glass Breaks Ground on $25MM Renovation Anchoring a Permanent Lino Tagliapietra Legacy Gallery

The Museum of Glass has moved its long-planned $25 million renovation from the drawing board into active construction, converting interior space at its...

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 Halts New Large Data Centers With Emergency One-Year Moratorium After 369-Megawatt Wave of Proposals

The Seattle City Council voted unanimously on June 9 to freeze the siting of large data centers for one year, becoming the largest...

PMB, The Springs Living Break Ground on 225-Unit Senior Living Community in Issaquah

Healthcare real estate developer PMB and Oregon-based operator The Springs Living have started construction on a 225-residence senior living community in the Issaquah...

Blackstone Affiliate Sells 81,215 SQFT Andover Distribution Center in Tukwila for $35.3MM to Kayne Anderson

At roughly $435 per square foot for a 1966-vintage building on nearly 7.7 acres near Sea-Tac Airport, the May 26 transaction signals that...

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70-Unit Apartment Community Near Ferry Terminal on Bainbridge Island Trades for $16.8MM

Bainbridge, WA – June 9, 2026 – CBRE has completed the sale of Quay Bainbridge, a 70-unit multifamily community located at 250 Shannon...

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LMN Architects to Anchor Unico’s Restored 53,000 SQFT Washington Park Building on Seattle’s Waterfront

LMN Architects has signed on as the first office tenant at the Washington Park building, ending a two-year vacancy at one of the...

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Rush Commercial, Dobler Management Open 128-Unit Fryar Flats in Downtown Sumner

Rush Commercial Construction and owner-operator Dobler Management Company have completed and opened Fryar Flats, a six-story, 176,185-square-foot mixed-use community in downtown Sumner that...

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Downtown Seattle Switches On First IKE Digital Kiosks Ahead of World Cup, With 50-Unit Network to Follow

The Downtown Seattle Association, the city of Seattle and Orange Barrel Media activated the first of 50 planned IKE Smart City digital kiosks...

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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...

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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...

City Study Pegged Moda Center Needs at $505MM as Trail Blazers Seek $600MM in Public Funds

A city-commissioned facility assessment found the Moda Center needs $505 million over 20 years to remain operable, well below the $600 million public...

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...

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Celebrating the Next Generation of Commercial Real Estate Excellence From the tech epicenters of Seattle and Portland to the industrial ports of...

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SMPS Seattle Announces 2026 Reign Awards Winners

SMPS Seattle members gathered on May 21 at SoDo Park to celebrate excellence in marketing and outstanding achievements of our regional A/E/C marketing professionals....

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...

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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...

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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)...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

Madison Development Group Lands $60.8MM Fannie Mae Refi on 216-Unit Spruce in West Seattle

Issaquah-based Madison Development Group has secured $60.8 million in Fannie Mae refinancing for Spruce, the 216-unit West Seattle apartment and retail complex it...

Terreno Realty Clinches Early 107,000 SQFT Renewal With Flooring Provider in Kent’s Softening Industrial Market

Terreno Realty Corporation has secured an early lease renewal for 107,000 square feet at its Kent Valley distribution building, extending a flooring tenant...

105-Unit Alcove First Hill Micro-Apartments Hit the Market in Seattle

An entity affiliated with the managing partner of a Seattle social purpose corporation has put the 105-unit Alcove First Hill micro-apartment building on...

Transforming Age Bets on 1,000-Unit, Mass-Timber EverGlen Village to Crack Bellevue’s Affordability Gap

A nonprofit developer has advanced plans for EverGlen Village, a more than 1,000-unit affordable senior housing community spread across five mass-timber buildings on...

Alliance Residential Pays $16.7MM for Site in Renton Approved for 384-Unit Apartment Project on Lake Washington

Vulcan Real Estate’s disposition of the 7.18-acre Kennydale waterfront parcel — marketed by CBRE and approved for residential development roughly two years ago...

Spokane-Based Entity Sells 128-Room Hilton Garden Inn Seattle/Bothell for $16.1MM

The deal, which closed at roughly $125,800 per key, lands as CBRE forecasts Seattle-area hotel revenue per available room to reach a record...

Suncadia Bets $18MM on Retail Village to Turn Cle Elum Resort Into a Year-Round Town

Suncadia will open the first four tenants of its $18 million Suncadia Social retail village on June 19, capping a town-center vision that...

Washington Tops the West Coast and Lands 4th Nationally in Resident Income, New Study Finds

Washington outranks both California and Oregon to claim the highest resident income on the West Coast and the fourth-highest in the country, according...

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