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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...
Khosla-Led Group Buys Super Bowl Champion Seahawks for Record $9.61B, Highest Price in NFL History
A venture-capital family led by Silicon Valley billionaire Vinod Khosla has agreed to buy the reigning Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks for a...
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...
Stadium Authority and Building Trades Appeal Seattle Plan That Would Permanently Ban Housing in SoDo’s Stadium District
The public agency that oversees T-Mobile Park has joined Seattle’s construction unions to challenge a city subarea plan that would lock housing out...
Gensler Brands Seattle’s 4.25-Mile Unity Loop to Steer World Cup Crowds Into Neighborhood Storefronts
As Seattle prepares to host six FIFA World Cup matches at Lumen Field beginning June 15, Gensler Seattle has delivered the visual identity...
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...
Eight-Story “The Hostess” Banner Lands on 9th & Thomas in Seattle’s South Lake Union Ahead of World Cup
The 36-by-111-foot work by Seattle artist Ernesto Ybarra marks the fifth large-scale banner installed on the Olson Kundig-designed building’s east façade since the...
$23.6MM DoubleTree Suites Loan Near Seattle Airport Lands in Special Servicing as CMBS Maturity Wall Crashes Hotels
The 219-suite DoubleTree Suites Seattle Airport-Southcenter was transferred to special servicing on May 26, the latest 2016-vintage hotel mortgage to fail a refinancing...
Live Nation Plants Flag in Seattle’s Sodo With 5,500-Capacity Concert Hall
The concert promoter’s first Seattle-proper venue lands across from T-Mobile Park, targeting the underserved gap between theaters and arenas with a 2029 opening....
Seattle Hoteliers Stare Down Potential ‘Non-Event’ World Cup as 80 Percent Track Below Plan
Visa barriers, FIFA room block releases, and last-minute cost hikes are pulling Seattle into the most underperforming tier of the 11 U.S. host...
Park Hotels & Resorts Sells 396-Room Hilton Seattle Airport & Conference Center for $18MM
The full-service hotel, one of the largest conference-equipped properties near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, traded at roughly $45,500 per key just weeks before Seattle...
Pacific Northwest Hotels Brace for a Second Year of Softening as Canadian Travelers Stay Home
Seattle draws short-term relief from FIFA World Cup matches while Portland’s recovery slows, and both markets bank on rapidly shrinking construction pipelines to...
