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Renee Erickson’s Sea Creatures Signs Lease at Skanska’s 541,000 SQFT The Eight, Completing Tower’s Retail Lineup

The lease completes about 11,000 square feet of ground-floor retail around the tower’s plaza and mass-timber pavilion as Eastside retail remains the tightest...

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Skanska’s Mass-Timber Bevel Advances Through Design Review as 2.7MM SQFT of Bellevue Office Lines Up for Permits

Skanska's 12-story mass-timber Bevel office tower in downtown Bellevue moved through design review in the third quarter, according to CBRE, one of four...

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Eastside Office Asking Rents Jump 24% in Two Years Even as Vacancy Climbs to 22.4%

Average gross asking rents on the Eastside have climbed nearly 24 percent since the end of 2024 to $47.18 per square foot, even...

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Downtown Bellevue on Track for 1.2MM SQFT of Absorption in 2027 as Vacancy Heads Toward 15%

Broderick Group projects Downtown Bellevue will post roughly 1.2 million square feet of net absorption in 2027, most of it from leases already...

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Nscale Doubles Lease at Bellevue’s The Eight to 46,000 SQFT Ahead of Opening and $35B IPO

The London-based AI data center developer has added a second floor at The Eight before moving into its first one, a commitment made...

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Crusoe Adds 46,000 SQFT at Key Center in Bellevue Weeks After $3.9 Billion Raise

Denver-based Crusoe has signed for an additional 46,475 square feet at Kilroy Realty's Key Center in downtown Bellevue, a deal that multiplies the...

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Puget Sound Office Leasing Cools to 1.3MM SQFT as Availability Eases to 26.1%

Seattle/Puget Sound office leasing slowed to 1.3 million square feet in the third quarter after two blockbuster quarters, but availability, sublease supply and...

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Industrious Leases 22,000 SQFT at Skanska’s The Eight in Downtown Bellevue

Industrious is expanding in downtown Bellevue by taking a full floor at The Eight. Tenants leased 851,000 square feet in Bellevue's central business...

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Seattle Sits Out the National Office Occupancy Index Even as Puget Sound Landlords Chase the Same Answer

The most widely cited measure of the American return to office does not track Seattle, leaving Puget Sound owners and lenders to benchmark...

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Skanska Pushes 12-Story, 205,000 SQFT Mass-Timber Bevel Tower Toward Bellevue Entitlement Finish Line

Skanska has cleared another design and entitlement milestone on Bevel, its planned mass-timber office tower in downtown Bellevue, and is targeting Administrative Design...

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Eastside Office Construction Goes Dark in 2026 After 4.9MM-SQFT Wave, With 14.7MM SQFT Waiting in the Wings

The Eastside office market will not deliver a single new building in 2026, a deliberate pause that hands landlords a rare window to...

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Downtown Bellevue Roars Back in Q2 2026 With 366,000 SQFT Absorption Surge Led by Uber and AI Tenants

Downtown Bellevue posted the strongest quarterly absorption of any Eastside submarket in the second quarter of 2026, clawing back 366,168 square feet as...

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