Artificial Intelligence
Crusoe’s 46,000 SQFT Key Center Expansion Puts AI at the Front of a Bellevue Market Running Short on Big Class A Blocks
CBRE's third-quarter 2026 Seattle office report places Crusoe Energy Systems' 46,000-square-foot expansion at Kilroy Realty's Key Center among the quarter's defining deals, a...
Anthropic Adds 46,000 SQFT at Seattle’s Dexter Yard, Building on 113,000 SQFT Lease
Anthropic took a 46,000-square-foot expansion at BioMed Realty's Dexter Yard in Seattle's Lake Union district during the third quarter, according to CBRE, adding...
Seattle Posts Fastest AI Office Demand Growth but Trails Three-Market Core, VTS Finds
New VTS research shows AI companies entering the office market 27 percent more often than a year ago, but with San Francisco, New...
General Robotics Signs 19,000 SQFT Lease at Redmond’s Willows Run Building as Microsoft Alumni Scale Robot AI
General Robotics, the Redmond robotics software startup founded by former Microsoft researchers, has signed a 19,107-square-foot lease at the Willows Run Building on...
Seattle’s AI Footprint Grows 42% Since 2024, Nearly Matching San Francisco’s Pace, JLL Report Finds
A 2026 JLL study ranks Seattle as the nation's third-largest pool of senior artificial intelligence talent and one of two strong secondary markets...
Seattle’s Security Properties Cuts Deal Underwriting to Minutes as Puget Sound Embraces AI
Seattle-based Security Properties has put a proprietary AI underwriting engine into its acquisition pipeline, and with Seattle, Everett and Bellevue piloting AI permit...
Crusoe Adds 46,000 SQFT at Key Center in Bellevue Weeks After $3.9 Billion Raise
Denver-based Crusoe has signed for an additional 46,475 square feet at Kilroy Realty's Key Center in downtown Bellevue, a deal that multiplies the...
Puget Sound Office Leasing Cools to 1.3MM SQFT as Availability Eases to 26.1%
Seattle/Puget Sound office leasing slowed to 1.3 million square feet in the third quarter after two blockbuster quarters, but availability, sublease supply and...
AI Inference Startup ElastixAI Expands to 25,000 SQFT at Seattle’s West Lake Union Center
ElastixAI, the Seattle chip-and-software startup founded by former Apple and Xnor engineers to cut the cost of running AI models, has taken 24,827...
Kabani Hotel Group CEO Urges Owners to Tighten Risk Controls as 7% Debt, AI and Insurance Costs Mount
Kabani Hotel Group founder Ahmed Kabani is urging hotel owners to tighten risk controls while markets still feel calm, and his seven-point checklist,...
Seattle Absent From Top 10 as $2.26T Exit Boom Rewards Bay Area, Dallas and Denver
A new Deloitte and PitchBook report tracking a record $2.26 trillion in U.S. expansion-stage company exits during the first half of 2026 shows...
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...
