City of Seattle
Seattle Proposes 10.7% Permit Fee Hike, Third Straight Year of Above-Inflation Increases
Mayor Katie Wilson's 2027-2028 budget would stack a 7 percent increase on Seattle building and land use permit fees atop a 3.7 percent...
Downtown Seattle Office Absorbs 300,000 SQFT, Its First Positive Quarter Since 2021
Downtown Seattle's office market absorbed 300,000 square feet in the third quarter of 2026, its first positive quarter in five years, as law...
Businesses Now Carry 68% of Seattle’s $2.8B Tax Bill as City Sheds 24,000 Jobs, DSA-Chamber Study Finds
A new ECOnorthwest analysis commissioned by the Downtown Seattle Association and the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce finds the city’s tax collections have...
Seattle Apartment Market ‘Treading Water’ as Deputy Mayor Calls JumpStart Tax a ‘Slush Fund’
At the Simon | Anderson Multifamily Team's fall investor forum, Kidder Mathews' Dylan Simon described a Puget Sound apartment market stuck between flat...
Mayor Wilson Puts Kidder Mathews, Amazon and Port of Seattle on Task Force as Downtown Office Vacancy Hovers Near 35%
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson has named 18 business, labor and civic leaders, from Kidder Mathews Chairman Bill Frame to Port of Seattle President...
Sellen Tops Out $140MM Memorial Stadium Rebuild at Seattle Center
The rebuild of Seattle's 79-year-old Memorial Stadium has reached its structural peak, putting one of the city's most closely watched public-private partnerships on...
Mayor Wilson’s $9.1B Seattle Budget Spares Employers a JumpStart Hike, Tightens the Screws on Apartment Fees
Mayor Katie B. Wilson's first proposed budget closes an inherited $175 million General Fund gap through spending cuts rather than a JumpStart payroll...
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...
Community Roots Housing and Kids Co. Begin 8,000 SQFT Early Learning Center Buildout at CopperLeaf Northgate in Seattle
Construction has begun on a purpose-built child care center inside the ground floor of a fully leased affordable housing community steps from Link...
Seattle Building Emissions Fall 14% as City’s New Performance Standard Nears First Deadline
Seattle's Office of Sustainability & Environment reported that emissions from the city's buildings sector fell sharply in 2024 even as population and economic...
Kassel Tapped to Renovate 1925 Bakun Building, Seattle’s Last Waterfront Holdout
The City of Seattle has selected a Redmond-based public works contractor to finally bring its century-old Bakun Building back to life, closing out...
Seattle Council Scraps Local Zoning-Appeal Process in 5-4 Vote, Easing the Path for Housing Development
A narrowly divided Seattle City Council has eliminated the city-level environmental appeal that opponents used to delay major rezones, redirecting future challenges to...
