Leasing
Eastside Office Market Turns a Corner in Q2 2026 as Absorption Goes Positive, But 21% Vacancy Lingers
The Eastside office market recorded its first meaningful positive absorption in more than a year during the second quarter of 2026, absorbing nearly...
OpenAI, Uber Anchor 3.4MM SQFT Leasing Surge as Puget Sound Office Market Turns Corner in 2026
A wave of long-term commitments from artificial intelligence, software and professional-services tenants pushed Puget Sound office leasing up 62 percent in the first...
Anthropic Signs 113,000 SQFT Lease at Dexter Yard North in Seattle’s South Lake Union
Valued near $1 trillion and backed by $25 billion from the company next door, Anthropic chose South Lake Union over Bellevue for one...
Trase Hunts for 100-Person Seattle-Area Office After $107MM Seed Round as AI Leasing Surges
Trase, a McLean, Virginia-based artificial intelligence startup with half its team already in the Puget Sound region, is searching for a Seattle-area office...
Arnold & Porter More Than Doubles Seattle Footprint with 39,000 SQFT Lease At One Union Square
Less than a year after opening its first Pacific Northwest office at U.S. Bank Center, Arnold & Porter has leased the top two...
Seattle Economic Development Chief Signals Retreat From JumpStart Tax Expansion as Downtown Vacancy Tops 30%
Seattle’s new economic development director, Beto Yarce, says the city is exploring revenue options other than expanding its JumpStart payroll tax, even as...
Seattle v. Bellevue: The Tortoise Wears a Patagonia Vest
Bellevue is trouncing Seattle on occupancy, but occupancy is the lagging indicator—and the talent that fills tomorrow’s offices still wants the messy city...
Snowflake Expands to Floors Seven Through Nine at Bellevue’s Block 6 as Databricks Closes In
Snowflake Inc. is pushing deeper into its Bellevue headquarters, building out three additional floors at the Spring District’s Block 6 just as rival...
BioLife Solutions Converts Former Bothell Church Into 5,000 SQFT Cryobiology Lab, Pushing Footprint to 64,000 SQFT
A onetime evangelical sanctuary on Monte Villa Parkway has been gutted and rebuilt into one of the few dedicated cryobiology research labs in...
Anduril Industries Expands Across Three More Floors at Downtown Seattle’s 2+U Tower
Permit filings show defense technology company Anduril Industries building out three additional floors at downtown Seattle’s 38-story 2+U tower, a vote of confidence...
Superhuman Inks 10,200 SQFT Lease at Dexter Landing South in Seattle’s Westlake Neighborhood
Superhuman, the AI productivity platform that emerged from Grammarly’s rebranding, has signed a lease for 10,200 square feet at Dexter Landing South in...
Jet’s Pizza Hunts 1,400-1,800 SQFT Retail Sites Across 11 Washington Markets in Puget Sound Push
Detroit-style chain Jet’s Pizza is scouting inline and end-cap retail space in roughly a dozen Washington submarkets, deploying a compact off-premise format that...
