Industry News
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...
EDP Renewables Advances $1B Big River Wind-Solar-Storage Project in Oregon’s Gilliam County
EDP Renewables North America has proposed a roughly $1 billion, nearly 30,000-acre Big River wind, solar and battery storage project in Gilliam County...
Bridge Partners Affiliate Buys 195-Unit Cascadia at Fairwood Landing in Renton for $47.5MM
A Bridge Partners affiliate paid $47.5 million for the renovated Renton apartment complex, roughly $13.5 million less than Sack Properties paid for the...
Gorman & Co. Advances 159-Unit, $80MM Veritas Place in Portland’s Lloyd District
Gorman & Co. and the Dominican Friars have filed plans for Veritas Place, a 159-unit, $80 million affordable housing community in Portland’s Lloyd...
Mukilteo Launches Developer Search to Transform 1.19-Acre Waterfront Site Near State’s Busiest Ferry Route
The City of Mukilteo opened a search for a development partner to remake a 1.19-acre city-owned parcel between Lighthouse Park and one of...
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...
Perkins Eastman Designing 233-Unit Affordable Housing Project on Sound Transit Land at Federal Way Downtown Station
Perkins Eastman has been tapped to design a 233-unit, all-affordable housing development that Multi-Service Center and Shelter Resources will build on two surplus...
CenterPoint Markets Fully Available 324,000 SQFT Fife Industrial Building for Lease
One of the largest blocks of contiguous industrial space to hit the Fife market in years is now available, as CenterPoint Properties markets...
Greenbuild Development Affiliate Sells 57-Unit Vitality on Howell for $8.4MM, 12% Below Ask in Capitol Hill
A studio building priced to sell below appraisal still needed another cut to close, a sign of how much further Seattle’s urban core...
Bellingham to Open Third Tiny Home Village on Division Street in 2027 with 35 to 40 Units
Bellingham and HomesNOW! are opening a 35-to-40-unit village on Division Street for roughly half the cost of their last project, using city-owned land...
