Renton
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...
Renton Bets $10MM on Downtown Reinvention as HEART Block Opens June 6 with World Cup in Sight
The city’s long-planned trifecta—Legacy Square, Piazza Park, and the Renton Market—debuts June 6, converting a former auto dealership and a vacant gravel lot...
Sound Transit Chair Floats Scaled-Back Ballard Link, Issaquah Delay To Close $34.5B Gap
Resolution R2026-11 would truncate the region’s highest-ridership light rail line at Seattle Center and push the South Kirkland-to-Issaquah extension to 2050 Sound Transit...
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...
Seattle’s Deepest Housing Need Is Also Its Hardest to Build, Says Community Roots CEO
As King County’s 2026 income limits inch upward, the gap between minimum-wage earners and the units they can afford keeps widening. The math...
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...
Auto Accessories Sells Century-Old 23,000 SQFT Capitol Hill Warehouse for $10.1MM in Seattle
The sale of the 1920-era Auto Accessories building on 13th Ave. closes a chapter on one of Capitol Hill’s last auto row holdouts...
Kraken to Break Ground on $60MM Kirkland Iceplex as Hockey Surge Outstrips Northgate
Public-private deal hands the NHL franchise a 34-year, $1-per-year ground lease on a five-acre Eastside site, opening a second front for a youth...
Phillips Edison Acquires 54,000 SQFT Renton Highlands Shopping Center for $15.75MM
The Cincinnati-based grocery-anchored REIT continues its Pacific Northwest expansion with the purchase of the Safeway-adjacent retail complex, which traded at a loss for...
Ares Management Sells 91,400 SQFT Renton Warehouse to WareSpace for $19MM
The Kent Valley asset traded at roughly $208 per square foot as Puget Sound industrial vacancy climbed to 9.3 percent in the first...
Providence Signs 260,000 SQFT Lease at Longacres Campus in Renton, Marking Q1 2026’s Largest Puget Sound Office Deal
The healthcare system’s new lease at the Class A medical office campus on the former Boeing property anchors the Southend submarket’s positive absorption...
Outrig Storage Buys 4.8-Acre Vehicle Storage Property in Renton for $7.5MM
The Chicago-based operator acquired East Valley RV, Boat & Car Storage as its first location in Washington, signaling broader regional expansion plans Chicago-based...
