Pacific Northwest
Pacific Industrial Taps Link Logistics Veteran Bud Pharris as CEO to Drive Western U.S. Expansion
Long Beach-based developer Pacific Industrial has hired Bud Pharris, who ran Blackstone-owned Link Logistics' nine-market West Region, as chief executive officer to steer...
Newmark Taps Jake Gustafson as Northwest Director of Engineering to Back Washington and Oregon Property Teams
Newmark has hired Jake Gustafson as Director of Engineering for the Northwest, placing a dedicated engineering leader alongside the property management teams that...
Cushing Terrell Buys Seattle’s Graphite Design Group, Growing Local Architecture Team to 30-Plus
Cushing Terrell has absorbed Seattle architecture firm Graphite Design Group, taking on its team, contracts and client relationships and building a Seattle architecture...
Trepp: Seattle Office Slips, but Seattle Apartments and Portland Self-Storage Rank Among West’s Safest
Trepp analysts told a national webinar audience that Seattle's office market is weakening at the margins, even as the metro's multifamily loans and...
Seattle Absent From Top 10 as $2.26T Exit Boom Rewards Bay Area, Dallas and Denver
A new Deloitte and PitchBook report tracking a record $2.26 trillion in U.S. expansion-stage company exits during the first half of 2026 shows...
Wells Fargo’s Higher Rate Floor Tests Northwest Housing as Data Centers and Power Drive Construction
Wells Fargo's September economic outlook points to a widening split in Pacific Northwest real estate: a data-center and power construction build-out gaining momentum...
Hexagon Energy, Weyerhaeuser Strike Deal for 3 GW of Geothermal Potential Across 145,000 Acres
Hexagon Energy leases geothermal rights on 145,000 acres of Weyerhaeuser timberland in Oregon and Washington, targeting 3 GW of clean power.
Seattle Construction Costs Trail National Pace as Q2 Costs Rise 3.48%
Seattle's non-residential construction costs kept climbing in the second quarter of 2026, but at a pace that continues to lag the rest of...
Portland Construction Costs Keep Climbing as Building Employment Falls 8%
Portland's non-residential builders are paying more for labor and materials even as the workforce doing that building shrinks, a divergence that Mortenson Construction's...
Seattle Life Science Stays Tightest of West Coast Hubs as New Construction Halts
Seattle's life science market entered the second half of 2026 with the lowest vacancy of any major West Coast hub and no space...
Seattle Cements No. 2 Tech Talent Rank as AI Hiring Reshapes the Pacific Northwest
Seattle held firm as North America's second-strongest tech talent market on the strength of double-digit workforce growth and one of the continent's densest...
UMC Welcomes Justin Kim, P.E. as Project Executive
Lynnwood, WA (August 2026) – UMC is excited to welcome Justin Kim, P.E. to UMC as a Project Executive. Justin joins our Business...
