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Sound Transit Chair Floats Scaled-Back Ballard Link, Issaquah Delay To Close $34.5B Gap
Resolution R2026-11 would truncate the region’s highest-ridership light rail line at Seattle Center and push the South Kirkland-to-Issaquah extension to 2050 Sound Transit...
Port of Seattle Unveils 31-Project Blueprint to Expand SEA for 56 Million Passengers by 2032
The Port’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement opens public comment on a sweeping near-term expansion anchored by a second terminal and 19 new gates....
Wishcamper Opens 164-Unit Amity Orchards Affordable Community in Beaverton’s South Cooper Mountain
The $80MM multigenerational project, backed by $9MM from Metro’s voter-approved housing bond, is the second bond-funded community to open in the fast-growing area...
Palindrome Opens 121-Unit Vuela Affordable Housing Project Over Food Bank and Transit Hub in Wilsonville
The mixed-use development stacks 121 income-restricted apartments atop a food pantry, a SMART transit center and a community food hall, anchoring a public-private...
Seattle’s Deepest Housing Need Is Also Its Hardest to Build, Says Community Roots CEO
As King County’s 2026 income limits inch upward, the gap between minimum-wage earners and the units they can afford keeps widening. The math...
Amazon Lands as Tenant Behind 1.2MM SQFT Project Cascade Warehouse in Arlington
The e-commerce giant is set to occupy a Panattoni-developed operations facility straddling the Arlington-Marysville line, even as residents press officials over water and...
Port of Tacoma, Puyallup Tribe Greenlight Blair Waterway Cutback to Make Room for Bigger Ships and a New Terminal
Commissioners approved the implementation agreement that widens the waterway to 850 feet and clears the path for the tribally owned Puyallup Tribal Terminal,...
Washington Retail Cap Rates Climb for Fifth Time in Six Quarters as Vacancy Holds Above 4%
Lee & Associates Q1 2026 data shows a Pacific Northwest retail market under pressure, with sale pricing down and landlords beginning to soften...
D.R. Horton Files Plans to Convert Shuttered Everett Walmart Into 248-Home Rowan Park
The nation’s largest homebuilder doubles down on Snohomish County with a townhome-and-single-family conversion of an 18.89-acre big-box site on Evergreen Way. D.R. Horton’s...
Portland Business Coalition Bets on High-Speed Rail to Reset Oregon’s Economic Trajectory
Mayor Keith Wilson, the Portland Metro Chamber and major institutional players are pressing Gov. Tina Kotek’s Prosperity Council to make Cascadia rail a...
Washington Begins $16.5MM Teardown of 284,000 SQFT Capitol Office Building, Opening Prime Olympia Redevelopment Site
The General Administration Building’s demolition clears one of the most strategically positioned parcels on the Capitol Campus, with state archivists already lobbying for...
Building Reimagined Pulls 21-Story Mass Timber Tower Plan for Downtown Seattle’s Ross Site
Developer withdraws permit submissions for 340-unit, $160MM-to-$180MM residential project at 301 Pike Street as financing pressures and ownership fragmentation derail one of downtown...
