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Seattle, Portland Post Highest Big-Box Warehouse Construction Costs in the Americas
Seattle and Portland now carry the highest costs in the Americas for big-box warehouse construction, with a 901,000-square-foot shell running about $100 million...
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...
John Burns Maps a Drawn-Out Building Products Recovery as Tech Wealth Skips Home Improvement
At a webinar on the state of building products, John Burns Research and Consulting principal Nishu Sood urged manufacturers and dealers to plan...
Wells Fargo: Fed Poised for Extended Hold as Warsh Era Opens Amid Sticky Inflation
Wells Fargo economists expect the Federal Reserve to sit on the sidelines for an extended period as new Chair Kevin Warsh takes the...
