Downtown Seattle Association
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...
Seattle Sheds 18,605 Jobs as Downtown Absorbs 70% of Losses, DSA Report Finds
The Downtown Seattle Association's new employment report finds that Seattle shed 18,605 jobs between 2024 and 2025, with downtown absorbing roughly 13,000 of...
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...
Downtown Seattle Draws Nearly 3.8MM Visitors in August, Topping 2019 as Office Return Holds at 62%
Nearly 3.8 million unique visitors and 9.2 million total visits flowed into downtown Seattle in August, pushing tourism, hotel demand and residential occupancy...
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...
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...
Downtown Seattle Sets Recovery Records as Office Vacancy Climbs Near 35%
The Downtown Seattle Association's July data shows apartment occupancy, hotel demand and transit ridership all beating or matching pre-pandemic benchmarks, even as office...
Downtown Seattle Draws 3.7MM Visitors in July as Worker Return Stalls at 64%
Downtown Seattle's summer visitor boom pushed foot traffic to 112 percent of pre-pandemic levels in July, yet the daytime office workforce remained stuck...
Mayor Wilson Appoints Kelli Larsen as Director of Seattle Office of Housing
Mayor Katie B. Wilson has tapped a five-year veteran of the Seattle Office of Housing, Kelli Larsen, to run the agency and execute...
World Cup Drives More Than 3MM Visitors to Downtown Seattle Across Six Match Days, Lifting Transit and Hotel Demand
Downtown Seattle absorbed a surge of more than 3 million visitors during the six 2026 FIFA World Cup matches it hosted, a 17...
Ferguson’s 26-Member Economic Council Carries a Permitting Mandate as Downtown Seattle Vacancy Hits 36.5%
Gov. Bob Ferguson's newly created Governor's Economic Development Council arrives with an explicit charge to dismantle regulatory barriers to growth, seating six members...
