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Bellevue Anchors Puget Sound Office Rebound as Regional Vacancy Climbs to 23.4% in Q2 2026
A widening split defined the Puget Sound office market in the second quarter of 2026, with Bellevue’s AI-fueled leasing surge and a thinning...
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...
Worldscape AI Leases 15,000 SQFT at The Offices at Riverpark in Redmond as AI Demand Powers Eastside Rebound
Worldscape AI, a recently funded Redmond startup building data infrastructure for artificial-intelligence systems, has leased 14,975 square feet at The Offices at Riverpark,...
Perkins Coie Signs New 14,000 SQFT Lease at Bellevue’s City Center Plaza, Deepening Eastside Footprint
One of Seattle’s largest law firms is expanding its presence across Lake Washington, signing a new lease for 13,787 square feet at City...
Tata Lands 41,429 SQFT Lease at Redmond’s RidgePointe Corporate Center, Largest Eastside Office Deal Outside Bellevue in Q2 2026
Tata has committed to 41,429 square feet at Redmond’s RidgePointe Corporate Center, a new lease that ranks as the largest Eastside office transaction...
Trase Hunts for 100-Person Seattle-Area Office After $107MM Seed Round as AI Leasing Surges
Trase, a McLean, Virginia-based artificial intelligence startup with half its team already in the Puget Sound region, is searching for a Seattle-area office...
Washington Leads Nation in Q1 GDP Growth at 4.5% on Tech Strength
Washington’s economy expanded at a 4.5 percent annualized rate in the first quarter of 2026 — the fastest of any state — as...
Seattle Ranks as Nation’s No. 3 AI Metro in Hubble Study as Tech Tenants Anchor Puget Sound Office Recovery
Hubble’s new ranking of the most AI-ready U.S. metros names Seattle the country’s third-strongest AI hub and the highest-scoring market outside the Bay...
Construction Continues on Carmel Partners’ 573-Unit Overlake Village Mixed-Use Development in Redmond
A major transit-oriented apartment project is cresting the roofline in Redmond’s Overlake neighborhood, reaching its structural topping milestone at a moment when two...
CoreWeave Incerases Downtown Bellevue Footprint to 36,000 SQFT, Extending the Eastside’s AI Boom
The Nvidia-backed cloud company expands at One Bellevue Center barely a year after planting its first Pacific Northwest flag, joining a wave of...
Puget Sound Office Market Notches First Positive Absorption in Four Years, Even as Layoffs Mount
Vacancy and availability declined simultaneously for the first time in the recovery cycle, but surging tech-sector cuts and a weakening labor market threaten...
Pacific Northwest Office Vacancy Eases to 16.79% as Tech Tenants Drive Q1 2026 Leasing Surge
OpenAI, Uber, Meta and General Motors anchored a quarter of large deals across Seattle and Bellevue as conversions thin the obsolete stock Leasing...
