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Amtrak Opens $250MM, 100,000 SQFT Train Maintenance Facility at Seattle’s King Street Yard, $50MM Under Budget

Amtrak has opened a nearly 100,000-square-foot maintenance and inspection facility at its King Street Yard in Seattle's SoDo district, finishing the $250 million...

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Entitled 98-Acre Quarry District in East Vancouver Hits Market With Approvals for 2,000 Apartments, 625,000 SQFT of Commercial Space

A former rock quarry at the SR-14 and Southeast 192nd Avenue interchange is up for sale as 20 separately marketed lots. The site...

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CenterPoint Leases 4.16-Acre Rail-Served Port of Tacoma Yard on Marc Avenue as SR 167 Opens Nearby

CenterPoint Properties has leased its 4.16-acre, rail-served outdoor storage yard at 2021 Marc Ave. in the Port of Tacoma, filling a repositioned site...

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Space and Defense Tenants Absorb 697,000 SQFT as South Sound Industrial Vacancy Holds at 9.8%

Lee & Associates' September 2026 South Sound industrial report shows vacancy holding at 9.8 percent and rents edging higher as aerospace and defense...

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SR 167 Expressway Opens Near Port of Tacoma, Bolstering Kent Valley Freight Corridor

Decades after it was first envisioned, Washington has opened the initial two-mile leg of the State Route 167 expressway near the Port of...

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Seattle Study Weighs Removing SR 99 Through South Park, Freeing 100 Acres for Housing and Parks

A city-commissioned study lays out four futures for a roughly three-mile stretch of State Route 99 in Seattle's South Park neighborhood, with the...

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Kraemer-Scarsella JV Lands $475MM Final Stage of SR 167 Expressway Connecting Puyallup to Port of Tacoma

A joint venture of Kraemer North America and Kent-based Scarsella Bros. is set to break ground in mid-July on the four-year, up-to-$475 million...

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Puget Sound’s $50MM-Plus Building Pipeline Swells to Nearly 60 Projects, Led by Bellevue’s $2.6B Spring District

A new tally of the region's active construction shows nearly 60 projects each carrying price tags above $50 million, with public infrastructure, airport...

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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...

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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...

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Port of Seattle Unveils 31-Project Blueprint to Expand SEA for 56 Million Passengers by 2032

The Port's Draft Environmental Impact Statement opens public comment on a sweeping near-term expansion anchored by a second terminal and 19 new gates....

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Bellevue Pushes Road Safety Audits onto Five More High-Risk Corridors in 2026 Vision Zero Sprint

The city is leveraging $7.1MM in council funding and federal SS4A dollars to convert 13.7 miles of its deadliest streets into quick-build safety...

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