Industry News
WinCo Pushes Ahead on First Seattle Store With New Permit Filings, Targets Opening Within a Year
WinCo Foods is pushing ahead on its long-stalled first Seattle store, filing new permit paperwork for the vacant former Sam’s Club on Aurora...
Avangrid Expands Montgomery Park Lease to 55,000 SQFT in Portland
An energy company that relocated its Portland operations into Montgomery Park four years ago is growing rather than shrinking its footprint there, a...
Operating Seattle and Portland’s Buildings Fuels a $18.7BN Economic Engine, BOMA Study Finds
A new economic-impact study from BOMA International sizes the Pacific Northwest's building-operations economy, finding that metro Seattle and Portland together sustain more than...
Mariners Line Up $19MM in T-Mobile Park Upgrades for 2027, Pending PFD Approval
The Seattle Mariners have handed the public agency that owns T-Mobile Park a 47-item wish list for the coming offseason, weighted toward security...
Formation Report Finds Seattle Added Just 16 Mid-Sized Tech Firms as Rivals Added Dozens
Formation's assessment of Seattle's economy shows the city added only 16 mid-sized technology firms between 2017 and 2023 while San Francisco added 104,...
Shake Shack, Boot Barn Sign Leases at The Hub @ Everett as Brixton Reaffirms Topgolf
Brixton Capital has signed Shake Shack and Boot Barn to anchor spots at The Hub @ Everett, pairing the leasing news with a...
Downtown Seattle Draws Nearly 3.8MM Visitors in August, Topping 2019 as Office Return Holds at 62%
Nearly 3.8 million unique visitors and 9.2 million total visits flowed into downtown Seattle in August, pushing tourism, hotel demand and residential occupancy...
Unico Retail Property Near Pike Place Market in Seattle Enters Receivership After $14.5MM Default
The collapse of First and Union’s occupancy traces to Pike Brewing Company’s November 2025 closure of its 30-year flagship taproom, a loss that...
City of Bellevue Approves Koz’s 188-Unit Micro-Apartment Project in BelRed
Bellevue approves Koz Development's 188-unit Koz on BelRed, with 76 percent of units set aside as affordable micro-apartments.
Wright Hotels Lists 170-Acre Semiahmoo Resort in Blaine for $27.5MM
A Seattle ownership group that rescued a shuttered waterfront resort near the Canadian border 13 years ago is now testing whether the market...
Mercy Housing Northwest Plans 158 Affordable Units on Former ESCO Site in Portland
Mercy Housing Northwest’s two-phase filing for family-sized apartments on Northwest Portland’s former ESCO site tests whether the city’s years-long push to rezone industrial...
369-Unit Modera Bridle Trails Opens in Kirkland on Former TechCity Bowl Site
A Kirkland bowling alley that entertained Eastside families for nearly seven decades has given way to a 369-unit apartment community now welcoming its...
