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Pacific Northwest Holds Top-Tier Data Center Rank as AI Boom Races to Frontier Markets
The Pacific Northwest remains one of North America's ten largest data center markets with 4,170 megawatts of capacity, but JLL's Midyear 2026 report...
Mayor Wilson Signs Seattle SEPA Appeals Reform Into Law, Citing Housing Affordability
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson formalized a rule change that redirects environmental appeals of major rezones away from the city’s Hearing Examiner and toward...
Seattle Council Scraps Local Zoning-Appeal Process in 5-4 Vote, Easing the Path for Housing Development
A narrowly divided Seattle City Council has eliminated the city-level environmental appeal that opponents used to delay major rezones, redirecting future challenges to...
Seattle’s Retail Titans Expand as US Adds 26.1MM SQFT of Store Space in 2026
The Pacific Northwest's homegrown retailers sit on opposite ends of 2026's ledger, with Nordstrom and Costco expanding aggressively while Seattle-founded Eddie Bauer retrenches...
Sound Transit Lays Out 2042 Path to Ballard Light Rail, Contingent on Closing a $9 Billion Gap
Sound Transit has sketched a route to open light rail all the way to Seattle's Ballard neighborhood by 2042, but the timeline hinges...
Vanbarton Wins Approval to Convert Historic 2601 Elliott Avenue Into 260 Seattle Apartments
A distressed office tower that Zulily abandoned after its post-IPO struggles has won conditional city approval to become 260 apartments, giving Vanbarton Group’s...
Seattle Leads Nation in Pending Home-Sales Drop as Tech Layoffs Rattle Buyers
Seattle recorded the nation's steepest drop in pending home sales in July as tech-sector layoffs and a median price near $810,000 pushed cautious...
Patience Over Growth: TruAmerica’s Bob Hart on the National Multifamily Reset
In a wide-ranging interview on CBRE's The Weekly Take podcast, TruAmerica Multifamily founder Bob Hart laid out how a four-decade veteran is navigating...
Port of Seattle Completes 15,000 SQFT Maritime Innovation Center at Fishermen’s Terminal, Chasing Living Building Status
After a decade of planning and roughly four years of hands-on work, the Port of Seattle has finished construction on the Maritime Innovation...
U.S. Workforce Shrinks by More Than 1 Million as Labor-Force Participation Hits Post-Pandemic Low
The share of Americans working or looking for work fell to its lowest level since the pandemic in July, as retirements, tighter immigration...
TikTok’s Five-Day Office Mandate Offers a Rare Bright Spot for Seattle Landlords
TikTok's plan to require most U.S. employees back in the office five days a week starting in September will refill its Seattle-area desks,...
McNellis: One House, One Spouse — A Guide to CRE Wealth Preservation
Why razor-thin overhead and the 'one house, one spouse' rule are the keys to preserving wealth in real estate and in life.
