Commercial
Clise Properties Recruits CFO Benjamin Freeburg From Embattled Martin Selig Real Estate
Clise Properties, the 137-year-old Seattle landlord that helped shape the Denny Triangle, has hired Benjamin Freeburg as chief financial officer, drawing a senior...
Portland Council Advances $449MM PSU Performing Arts Center, Clouding Keller Auditorium’s Future
Portland City Council voted 8-4 to move planning forward on Portland State University's roughly $449 million, 3,000-seat Broadway house at the University Place...
Rivian Micromobility Spinoff Also Lands 17,000 SQFT Office and Retail Hub in Seattle’s North Lake Union, Backfilling Overland AI
The electric micromobility company spun out of Rivian has quietly established its first major beachhead outside Silicon Valley at Seattle's Blue Rooster Building...
Washington’s Labor Force Participation Sinks to Near 50-Year Low as Productivity Leads the Nation
Newly released federal labor data shows Washington's share of working-age residents holding or seeking work has slipped to 62.1 percent, among the lowest...
LDS Church Continues Puget Sound Property Sell-Off With $6MM Seattle Meetinghouse Sale
A 2.44-acre South Seattle site anchored by a modest 1996 meetinghouse has traded for $6 million, extending a run of Church of Jesus...
Swickard Floats Adding Observation Deck Atop Portland’s Big Pink Tower
A helipad that once welcomed some of Portland’s biggest business names could give way to a public observation deck under new owner Jeff...
Amazon Vacates 81,000 SQFT at South Lake Union Office as Downtown Seattle Vacancy Hits 35.8%
Amazon has emptied out of a six-story South Lake Union office building it has occupied since 2016, one of two large corporate move-outs...
McNellis: Economists vs. Flipping Coins
Economist: {noun}: someone good with numbers but without enough personality to be an accountant.
Meta Lists 135,000 SQFT in Seattle and Redmond for Sublease as Washington Retreat Deepens
Meta has placed roughly 135,000 square feet of additional Seattle-area office space on the sublease market, listing space in Seattle's Sodo neighborhood and...
Vintage Aviation Museum Acquires Historic Tillamook WWII Blimp Hangar for $1 as Roof Repairs Begin
The Port of Tillamook Bay has handed one of the largest wooden structures in the world to a Utah nonprofit for a single...
Oregon’s Labor Force Participation Holds Above the U.S. Average but Stays Far Below Its Peak
Federal labor data shows 62.4 percent of Oregonians were working or looking for work in July, a rate that edges out both the...
Washington Commerce Opens Comment Period on Draft Transit-Oriented Development Guidebook
The state has published a draft guidebook intended to walk cities through a zoning mandate few of them asked for but all of...
