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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...
Seattle’s World Cup Payday Ran on Room Rates, Not Crowds, as the Retail Boom Stopped at a Few Blocks
Seattle’s month as a FIFA World Cup host generated record hotel revenue and record downtown foot traffic, but the underlying data shows a...
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...
Downtown Seattle Association Report Blames JumpStart Payroll Tax for Downtown’s Decline as Backers Defend $388MM Revenue Engine
A new Downtown Seattle Association report argues that Seattle’s five-year-old JumpStart payroll tax has helped push jobs, employers and office value across Lake...
Downtown Seattle Switches On First IKE Digital Kiosks Ahead of World Cup, With 50-Unit Network to Follow
The Downtown Seattle Association, the city of Seattle and Orange Barrel Media activated the first of 50 planned IKE Smart City digital kiosks...
Privately Funded Elliott Bay Connections to Reopen 16-Acre Seattle Waterfront Parks on June 4
A philanthropy-backed overhaul of Myrtle Edwards and Centennial Parks closes a critical gap along Seattle’s reimagined Elliott Bay shoreline, extending a continuous public...
Visitors Flood Back to Downtown Seattle as Office Workforce Keeps Shrinking, April Figures Show
April data shows downtown topping pre-pandemic visitor and tourism levels even as worker foot traffic slides to 60 percent of 2019, exposing a...
Barnes & Noble Reopens in Downtown Seattle with 18,000 SQFT Flagship at 520 Pike
The nation’s largest bookseller returns to the city’s retail core after a six-year absence, anchoring Tishman Speyer’s office tower with the largest downtown...
