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Kilroy’s West8 Tower in Seattle Lands GM, SoFi and Foster Garvey Leases Totaling Nearly 130,000 SQFT
A Seattle office tower that Amazon largely abandoned three years ago is filling back up, with law firm Foster Garvey becoming the latest...
Amazon Files to Add Prime Air Drone Delivery Center at North Portland Fulfillment Hub
Amazon has asked Portland's permitting bureau to sign off on a Prime Air drone delivery hub at its North Portland fulfillment building, a...
As Robots Reshape the Built World, Puget Sound’s Warehouses Retool for Machines
A Goldman Sachs Global Institute essay warns that warehouses, kitchens and stores are being re-engineered for robots rather than people, and few regions...
UCLA Flags Debt Risk Hanging Over the Pacific Northwest’s Data-Center Boom
A September 2026 UCLA Economic Letter warns that the debt financing the AI data-center surge, the same surge that has turned eastern Oregon...
Formation Report Pinpoints Seattle-Bellevue Tax Gap as Prime Driver of Eastside Office Migration
Formation's assessment of Seattle's economy models a per-engineer tax gap of $10,000 to $30,000 a year between Seattle and neighboring Bellevue, offering a...
Formation Report Warns Seattle’s Office Vacancy and Tax Base Are Locked in a Downward Spiral
A new independent assessment of Seattle's economy finds the city's record office vacancy and its reliance on a handful of tech employers for...
Construction Underway on Mercy Housing’s 233-Unit Affordable TOD in Kent
Built on a parcel Sound Transit sold at a $6.5 million discount to spur affordable development, Kent Multicultural Village pairs 233 housing units...
Rivian Micromobility Spinoff Also Lands 17,000 SQFT Office and Retail Hub in Seattle’s North Lake Union, Backfilling Overland AI
The electric micromobility company spun out of Rivian has quietly established its first major beachhead outside Silicon Valley at Seattle's Blue Rooster Building...
Amazon Vacates 81,000 SQFT at South Lake Union Office as Downtown Seattle Vacancy Hits 35.8%
Amazon has emptied out of a six-story South Lake Union office building it has occupied since 2016, one of two large corporate move-outs...
Seattle Sits Out the National Office Occupancy Index Even as Puget Sound Landlords Chase the Same Answer
The most widely cited measure of the American return to office does not track Seattle, leaving Puget Sound owners and lenders to benchmark...
South Sound Industrial Splits in Two as Big Tenants Return and Small-Bay Absorption Stalls at 9.8% Vacancy
Lee & Associates' August South Sound industrial report shows overall vacancy easing to 9.8 percent as tenants chasing blocks of 300,000 square feet...
Portland Multifamily Supply Collapses to 2,550 Units as Institutional Capital Returns Ahead of Recovery
Portland's apartment construction pipeline has fallen roughly 80 percent from its 2022 peak while renters keep absorbing units, and the institutional capital that...
