Oregon
ODOT Draft Estimate Pushes Rose Quarter Freeway Project to $3.6B, Leaving Nearly $3B Unfunded
A draft internal cost memo prepared by the Oregon Department of Transportation and posted publicly this week values the remaining unfunded work on...
Washington’s HB 1110 Head Start Positions the Puget Sound to Cash In on New Federal Housing Law
Washington's early move to end single-family-only zoning may prove to be the region's biggest advantage under the new federal housing law, which floods...
Daimler Truck to End Portland Manufacturing on Swan Island, Cutting 375 Jobs Weeks After Opening $40MM Engineering Hub
Daimler Truck North America will halt Freightliner and Western Star assembly on Portland's Swan Island this fall, cutting 375 jobs and shifting production...
ICE Expands GEO Group’s Tacoma Facility, Seeks 1,500 More Beds Near Seattle
Federal immigration authorities are moving to sharply enlarge their detention footprint across Washington while insisting they have no plans for Oregon, even as...
Prologis Flags Seattle as Its Softest Logistics Market as National Warehouse Recovery Accelerates
Even as Prologis declared the industrial property cycle firmly in a new phase of growth, executives singled out Seattle as the softest of...
New York Clears First-in-Nation Data Center Moratorium, and the West Coast Is Watching
New York lawmakers have approved a one-year freeze on state permits for large data centers, the first statewide moratorium in the country and...
Oregon Trails West Coast Neighbors With 1.1% GDP Growth in First Quarter
Oregon's economy grew at a 1.1 percent annualized rate in the first quarter of 2026, roughly half the national pace and a fraction...
Bed Bath & Beyond and Container Store Open Only Oregon Co-Branded Store in Tigard as Lemonis Bets Big on Home
Bed Bath & Beyond and The Container Store have opened a combined store at 7417 SW Bridgeport Road in Tigard, the only Oregon...
West Marine to Close Tigard Store, Oregon’s Lone Casualty in 59-Store Chapter 11 Restructuring
West Marine will close its Tigard store in the Portland suburbs, the only Oregon location on a 59-store national hit list as the...
Scannell Properties Pays $6.5MM for Hillsboro Site, Launches 126,000 SQFT Spec Industrial Warehouse
With Intel's foundry business staging a dramatic comeback and DSV already breaking ground down the street, Scannell Properties is betting that Hillsboro's semiconductor...
Washington Tops the West Coast and Lands 4th Nationally in Resident Income, New Study Finds
Washington outranks both California and Oregon to claim the highest resident income on the West Coast and the fourth-highest in the country, according...
PSE Draft Plan Pegs Washington Electric Rates to Climb 142% and Gas Rates 392% by 2050
The utility's reference case for the 2027 Integrated System Plan warns of binding transmission constraints, unsolvable model runs and mounting affordability pressure for...
