Industry News
Kitsap PUD Sends Public Power Measure to November Ballot, Testing Puget Sound Energy’s Grip on 130,000 Customers
The Kitsap Public Utility District’s board has voted to let county voters decide whether the public agency should have the authority to enter...
HomeGoods Signs Portland’s Largest Retail Lease of 2Q 2026 with 18,000 SQFT at Gresham Station
HomeGoods claimed the biggest retail lease signed anywhere in the Portland market during the second quarter of 2026, committing to 18,300 square feet...
Jmk Fuel Acquires 3,000 SQFT Wood Village Fuel and Convenience Property from J & B Petroleum for $6.48MM
A 2,921-square-foot fuel and convenience property in Wood Village, Ore., traded for $6.48 million during the second quarter, ranking as the second-largest retail...
Savills Completes $1.11B Eastdil Secured Acquisition, Bolstering Seattle Capital Markets Presence
Savills Plc has completed its roughly $1.11 billion acquisition of Eastdil Secured, uniting one of the world’s leading real estate advisors with a...
The Hilltop Taps ZGF Architects to Design The Grotto Concert Hall Above the Columbia in Quincy
The nonprofit founded by the couple behind the Gorge Amphitheatre has hired Portland’s ZGF Architects to design a 1,200-seat concert hall on the...
King County Assessor Candidates Line Up Behind Homestead Exemption That Would Shift Tax Burden to Commercial Owners
The four candidates running to replace John Wilson as King County assessor have coalesced around a universal homestead exemption that would cut tax...
Washington’s HB 1110 Head Start Positions the Puget Sound to Cash In on New Federal Housing Law
Washington’s early move to end single-family-only zoning may prove to be the region’s biggest advantage under the new federal housing law, which floods...
Washington County, Tualatin Float SIP Tax Break to Anchor Lam Research’s $1.7B TuX Expansion
Washington County and the City of Tualatin have proposed a Strategic Investment Program tax abatement designed to lock in as much as $1.7...
King County Housing Authority Announces Groundbreaking on 154-Unit Trailhead Apartments in Issaquah
Nearly a decade after the city first solicited proposals for the site, the King County Housing Authority has started construction on an eight-story...
Portland Weighs $650MM Two-Venue Plan for New PSU Theater and Downsized Keller Auditorium
Portland's City Council delayed action on the region's biggest cultural project in years after Mayor Keith Wilson proposed keeping both a new Portland...
Daimler Truck to End Portland Manufacturing on Swan Island, Cutting 375 Jobs Weeks After Opening $40MM Engineering Hub
Daimler Truck North America will halt Freightliner and Western Star assembly on Portland's Swan Island this fall, cutting 375 jobs and shifting production...
South Sound Industrial Pipeline Swells to 5.8MM SQFT at Midyear as Big-Box Projects Push South into Lewis County
Lee & Associates' midyear 2026 report shows nearly 5.83 million square feet of industrial space under construction across the South Sound, with capital...
