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2012-05-11
Logitech moves into Newark digs to boost collaboration
Logitech recently moved its main North American headquarters from Fremont to more modern buildings in Newark.
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2012-05-08
Seattle Acquisitions/Dispositions
Kidder Mathews has broken ground on Motion Water Sports' 135,000-square-foot Pacific Northwest corporate headquarters in Snoqualmie, WA.
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2012-05-07
Motion Water Sports Breaks Ground On New HQ
Motion Water Sports has begun work on its new 135,000-square-foot corporate headquarters in Snoqualmie, WA, where it will consolidate distribution, manufacturing and 21,000 square feet of R&D and office space for its numerous brands.
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2012-05-07
Snow Peak USA Leases 10,000 SF in Portland
Retailer Signs 5-Year Deal at The Dale Bldg
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2012-05-01
Boeing supplier Carlisle moving to larger quarters in Kent
Boeing supplier Carlisle Interconnect Technologies is relocating from Tukwila to a substantially larger space in Kent.
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2012-05-01
Skanska plans 13-story South Lake Union building
Indications are that Skanska USA will start to build its nearby project before preleasing any space.
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2012-05-01
Part of old NOAA facility is sold
A portion of the former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's center on Lake Union has sold for $1.5 million...
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2012-05-01
Water sports firm building new HQ
Kidder Mathews announced that Motion Water Sports has broken ground on a 135,000-square-foot headquarters in the Snoqualmie Ridge Business Park.
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2012-04-30
66-Acre Kimberly-Clark Waterfront Property On The Market
Kimberly-Clark Corp. has put its exceptionally rare waterfront industrial property here up for sale.
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2012-04-28
Everett pulp mill to be demolished
Kimberly-Clark said Thursday it plans to demolish its closed pulp-and-paper mill on Everett's waterfront and sell the 66-acre property.
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2012-04-27
Massive Washington Industrial Waterfront Property on the Market
Kidder Mathews and Binswanger have been retained by Kimberly-Clark Corporation to sell its exceptionally rare waterfront industrial property in Everett, Wash.
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2012-04-27
Team hired to sell Kimberly-Clark site
Kidder Mathews and Binswanger said they have been hired by Kimberly-Clark to sell its waterfront property in Everett.
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2012-04-27
Kimberly-Clark putting Everett mill site on the market
Kimberly-Clark will demolish its Everett pulp mill, setting the stage for the redevelopment of the 66-acre site.
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2012-04-27
Kimberly-Clark puts mill up for sale 'unpriced'
Kimberly-Clark officially put its now-closed Everett paper mill up for sale Thursday and says demolition of structures there will commence by summer.
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2012-04-26
Kimberly-Clark selling big Everett waterfront site
Kimberly-Clark said Thursday it plans to demolish its closed pulp-and-paper mill on Everett's waterfront and sell the 66-acre property.
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2012-04-26
B/E Aerospace wants to build soon
Kidder Mathews' first quarter industrial report has some interesting items, including an update on a good-sized construction project at Paine Field in Everett.
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2012-04-26
San Francisco real estate brokers show off their offices
One of real estate's premier maxims is location, location, location.
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2012-04-24
$480M Russell Center sale: 'Fantastic story of recovery'
People are still buzzing over last week's $480 million sale of Russell Investments Center...
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2012-04-20
Westcore continues buying spree with Central Plaza
Westcore Properties has snapped up another Bay Area property.
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2012-04-17
Acquisition of Grubb & Ellis leaves 'a lot of work to do'
The bankrupt commercial real estate company Grubb & Ellis has been acquired, but a company official said it will take a few weeks to see how the situation shakes out locally.
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2012-04-13
Westcore's Growth Forces Move To Larger Headquarters
Private international real estate investment firm Westcore Properties has relocated and expanded its corporate headquarters here in response to vigorous growth that has seen the firm's office and industrial portfolio top 11.6 million square feet.
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2012-04-13
Leasing sluggish for Seattle life sciences companies
A new report on Seattle's life sciences companies shows few leases being signed as companies continue to find financing a challenge, hobbling their growth.
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2012-04-11
Theranos revealed as Newark center's mystery tenant
Theranos Inc. is moving its headquarters to Newark from Palo Alto.
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2012-04-10
Office vacancy rates drop below 10% for space on the Eastside
The Eastside office market is the first in the region to notch a vacancy rate of less than 10 percent, according to Kidder Mathews...
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2012-04-10
Portland Market Office Sales Update
Here's the scoop on recent office market activity from the greater Portland area, thanks to commercial real estate services firm Kidder Mathews...
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2012-04-10
Seattle's office towers getting fuller, brokers report
Downtown vacancy rate tightens, especially in more prestigious buildings.
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2012-04-06
$25M apartment sale in Auburn
Carmel Partners paid nearly $25 million for a 177-unit apartment property in Auburn, records show.
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2012-04-06
Credit Karma moving HQ
Credit Karma is joining the migration of growing technology companies to the financial district.
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2012-04-05
LSI takes San Jose offices in expansion that will shift 850 workers
LSI has bought two big buildings in north San Jose and says it will shift its head offices and other units to the new campus...
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2012-04-04
Yard House will open downtown restaurant
The California-based chain is moving into the old Borders book store in Century Square.
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2012-04-04
Bend's Third Ace Hardware Coming to S. Hwy. 97
Bend will get its third Ace Hardware & Paint store on S. Highway 97 in coming months...
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2012-03-30
Chinese American Schools plans expansion
Chinese American Schools bought a 32,000-square-foot building in Alameda...
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2012-03-26
Lucid Partners with Seattle 2030 District to Dramatically Reduce Commercial Building Energy Usage in Downtown Seattle
Seattle 2030 District leverages Building Dashboard to track ongoing progress toward a 50 percent reduction in energy, water and transportation-related CO2 across Downtown Seattle's buildings.
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2012-03-26
GLY wins gold for its new offices
GLY Construction's new office space in the 200 Building in Bellevue has been certified LEED gold for commercial interiors by the U.S. Green Building Council.
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2012-03-22
Conference on buying real estate
Law Seminars International's Commercial Real Estate Purchases and Sales Conference is at the Washington State Convention Center.
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2012-03-22
Kidder Mathews and GLY
Kidder Mathews Sustainability Practices provided LEED consulting to help GLY Construction achieve LEED gold...
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2012-03-20
GLY Achieves LEED Gold for Its New Downtown Bellevue Office
GLY Construction has achieved LEED Gold for Commercial Interiors certification by the US Green Building Council on their own new office space...
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2012-03-18
Newark adding businesses big and small, eases pain of recent departures
The economic downturn ravaging the coffers of many municipalities has made no exception for this small East Bay city...
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2012-03-16
With partners lined up, Kidder prepares for China push
In a long reach for a regional brokerage, Kidder Mathews plans to tap into China's real estate sector with a new, three-way strategic alliance.
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2012-03-16
Point Ruston soon to achieve milestone - residents
That screeching sound Tacoma residents heard three years ago was Mike Cohen hitting the brakes before the first phase of his billion-dollar project went over the cliff.
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2012-03-16
Newark fills a large empty space with a large question mark
Attracting a large new employer is a major coup for city officials and the landlord alike...
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2012-03-16
Facebook is evaluating 'other options' in case Menlo Park doesn't let it expand
While navigating through red tape in a bid to expand at its new Menlo Park campus, Facebook is checking out real estate opportunities elsewhere...
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2012-03-16
Developers rush to cash in on Portland apartments
When the 20 Pettygrove apartment complex opens this spring, there won't be much in the way of move-in specials.
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2012-03-16
Alecta buys more land on First Hill
Swedish pension adviser Alecta continues to assemble land on First Hill, most recently paying $2.5 million for a small surface parking lot at 812 Eighth Ave.
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2012-03-15
South King property moves
First-quarter highlights in the Kidder Mathews commercial real estate report...
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2012-03-14
Facebook shops for campus options beyond Menlo Park
Facebook Inc. is shopping for alternative sites should its campus expansion plans in Menlo Park not work out.
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2012-03-09
Kidder Matthews facilitates U.S.-China businesses
Tapping into the increasing flow of business between the United States and China, real estate firm Kidder Matthews has opened a division to help companies on both sides of the Pacific set up shop in each other's country.
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2012-03-09
SPORTS: In Sodo, an arena proposal gets mixed scores
Manufacturers and shippers worry that a new arena in Seattle's Sodo neighborhood would further crimp the shipment of cargo through the already congested district.
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2012-03-09
Rents fly, more buildings change hands in busy Silicon Valley market
As executive vice president and managing partner with Kidder Mathews, Steve Bouret puts together deals along the Highway 101 technology corridor between Highway 92 and Highway 85.
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2012-03-09
Selling downtown San Jose to tech companies: Not easy
San Jose bills itself as the capital of Silicon Valley. Yet while the downtowns of Palo Alto and Mountain View are bursting at the seams...
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2012-03-09
Renoir Hotel buyer invests in Mid-Market's future
The Kor Group is moving into Mid-Market with the acquisition of the historic Renoir Hotel at 45 McAllister St, San Francisco.
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2012-03-08
Kidder Mathews, Binswanger, Synergis
Binswanger and Kidder Mathews formed an alliance with Synergis to work on manufacturing and distribution sites as well as construction services in China.
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2012-03-06
In Seattle, Amazon Leads an Upswing in Office Space
Amazon, already a large company, has been on a tremendous growth spurt.
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2012-03-05
Losing a little bit of history: Architect Paul Thiry's office
This is a story about a place. A place in Seattle where noteworthy projects near and far were designed.
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2012-03-02
Kidder, Binswanger Partner with Asian Firm
Local asset manager Synergis has formed a strategic partnership with Seattle-based Kidder Mathews and Philadelphia-based Binswanger.
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2012-03-02
Stadium Innovation Center in Sodo lands big office lease
A national legal claims administrator has leased 45,000 square feet of offfice space in a new Sodo office building...
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2012-03-02
Garden City Group moving to Stadium Innovation Center
American Life Inc. says Garden City Group is leasing 45,000 square feet of office space...
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2012-03-01
Lifting the lid on Ban Roll-on sale
If the Buzz were king, he would declare that big property transactions could not go down on Friday afternoons just before deadline.
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2012-03-01
Flipping in the Kent Valley
Before the crash, people flipped houses and investors flipped office buildings.
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2012-03-01
Seattle's Kidder Mathews forms strategic alliance in real estate with Binswanger of Pennsylvania and Synergis of China
New partnership will help establish manufacturing and distribution sites in China while also helping Chinese companies looking for space or planning to invest in U.S. real estate.
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2012-03-01
Binswanger and Kidder Mathews Form Strategic Alliance with China-Based Firm, Synergis
Binswanger and Kidder Mathews are pleased to announce the formation of a strategic alliance with Synergis, one of China's leading facility and asset management services firms.
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2012-02-28
Robin Santiago Joins Kidder Mathews
Robin Santiago joins Kidder Mathews' Silicon Valley office...
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2012-02-24
Kent warehouse sells for $10M
Kent Corporate Park 72, a warehouse occupied by Omax Corp., sold for $9.75 million.
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2012-02-24
Land of giant opportunity
Steinberg Architects to start on 75 million-square-foot project in China.
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2012-02-24
Boeing supplier expands lease in Kent North Corporate Park
A Boeing supplier has leased an additional 99,000 square feet in Kent North Corporate Park...
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2012-02-23
More finalists unveiled in Real Estate Deals of the Year
Here are more finalist deals and projects that reshaped the Bay Area real estate landscape in 2011.
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2012-02-21
Industrial land study conducted to attract businesses to Portland area
When it comes to business recruitment, cities face a kind of chicken-or-the-egg conundrum. Which should they focus on first: companies or land?
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2012-02-16
Tech Crowds Life Sciences
Though the life-sciences industry typically tracks the beat of its own drummer, the economic climate of the last three years has not spared its players.
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2012-02-10
Portland, Multnomah County examine tax programs
Business leaders are working with Portland and Multnomah County officials to change a program that grants certain tax exemptions to commercial and residential builders.
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2012-02-10
Canadian manufacturer Creation Technologies inks deal for 79,085 square feet
Creation Technologies Inc. is expanding its footprint in Silicon Valley with the signing of a lease for a research & development building in Milpitas.
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2012-02-09
Nordstrom wants more room to grow
Nordstrom is on the hunt for more office space.
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2012-02-09
South Bay commercial real estate market heats up
Silicon Valley developers are racing to erect office and R&D buildings to meet a fresh surge of expansions by tech companies...
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2012-02-08
Software firm RMS is expanding here
Software company Revenue Management Systems says it is expanding to take all of the top floor of the Market Place One near Pike Place Market.
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2012-02-07
Binswanger and Kidder Mathews Named Exclusive Agent for Sublease of Class A Lab and Office Space in South San Francisco, California
Binswanger and Kidder Mathews have been named exclusive agents by Amgen, Inc. for the sublease of office complex offering up to 250,000 sq. ft. on 8.84 acres in the Britannia Oyster Point II campus in South San Francisco, California.
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2012-02-05
Ridgefield a city at a crossroad
Ridgefield has plenty of room for growth on largely vacant land near Interstate 5...
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2012-02-03
Goodwill to start $14M building on campus at Rainier, Dearborn
Seattle Goodwill will hold a groundbreaking ceremony at 9:30 a.m. Feb. 15 for a $14 million office, training and educational building at Rainier Avenue South and South Dearborn Street.
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2012-02-03
Developer adds to its bet on Civic Center
The developers that control the four-building former California State Automobile Association campus at Van Ness Avenue and Market Street have placed yet another bet on the Civic Center district...
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2012-02-03
Wakefield Building rolls
Three new tenants are moving into the Wakefield Building at 426 17th St. in Oakland.
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2012-02-01
Trends in the Seattle Area Office Market
Seattle's healthy job market and vast pool of talent have kept this market relatively stable while others floundered.
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2012-01-31
Great Falls Airport Authority boosts incentives for landing new low-cost air carrier
Great Falls Airport Authority members prepared Tuesday for the immediate future by sweetening a pot of incentives for a low-cost airline...
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2012-01-31
Kepler's, Iconic Bay Area Independent Bookstore, Launches Transition to Next-Generation Literary Venture
Kepler's "2020" Project Kicks Into High Gear to Drive Literary Innovation on SF Peninsula
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2012-01-30
Alecta buys another property on First Hill
A Swedish pension fund adviser named Alecta has bought another property on First Hill that is zoned for high-rise housing.
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2012-01-30
Liquor retailers shop for space in Washington
Costco Wholesale said it wanted competition in the liquor business, and that's what's coming.
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2012-01-27
Skanska aims to start building Fairview office/retail next year
Skanska USA's commercial development group is moving full-speed ahead with an office and retail project in South Lake Union.
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2012-01-27
Oakland firm DKS takes space in Morgan Building
DKS Associates leased 11,342 square feet at the Morgan Building...
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2012-01-26
Liquor retailers shopping for space in Washington
Costco Wholesale said it wanted competition in the liquor business, and that's what's coming.
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2012-01-25
Job growth attracting universities to SLU
Job growth in Seattle's South Lake Union is exceeding the city's expectations and attracting academic institutions interested in locating in a high-tech hub.
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2012-01-21
Warm economic outlook on a snowy day
Though Thursday's snow and ice hurt attendance at U.S. Bank's 2012 Economic Outlook Breakfast, speakers there called the region's economy warm, maybe even hot.
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2012-01-19
Brokers: Retailers are looking for space in downtown Seattle
In downtown Seattle, the Levi's store is out, and a Carhartt outlet is coming in.
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2012-01-18
David Cauchi joins Kidder Mathews
David Cauchi joins the Redwood Shores office of Kidder Mathews...
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2012-01-13
Apple Working to Lease New Office Space in Sunnyvale
Although Apple is moving forward on plans for its new 2.8 million square foot corporate campus in Cupertino, California, the company continues to grow with success of its products.
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2012-01-13
Underwood Gartland buys land in Everett
Underwood Gartland Development bought an industrial site in South Everett's Seaway neighborhood where it could build up to 450,000 square feet.
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2012-01-13
Apple Expanding Offices to Sunnyvale, California
Apple is leasing a research and office complex in Sunnyvale, California, as well as additional space...
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2012-01-13
Target close to signing Galleria lease
Target Corp. reportedly is close to signing a lease for about 80,000 square feet at The Galleria in downtown Portland.
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2012-01-12
Apple leases Sunnyvale complex as it expands into that city
Apple has agreed to lease a big research and office complex in Sunnyvale...
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2012-01-12
Kauri Investments moves to Bellevue
Kauri Investments sold its office building in Wallingford for $2.4 million, and plans to move its headquarters to Bellevue.
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2012-01-10
Essex pays $30M for two apartments
One of the most active apartment buyers in Seattle, Essex Property Trust of Palo Alto, Calif., bought neighboring properties in Redmond.
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2012-01-10
Schwartz joins Kidder Mathews' brokerage division in Portland
Josh Schwartz joined Kidder Mathews’ brokerage division in its Portland office.
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2012-01-09
Equity pays $12M for Lake Union site
Chicago-based Equity Residential recently paid $12.15 million for a half block in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood...
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2012-01-06
Chinese developer pays $7M for site in downtown Bellevue
The corner site at 201 106th Ave. N.E. could accommodate office, retail and housing.
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2011-12-30
Stadium Nissan of Seattle gets LEED gold
Stadium Nissan of Seattle has received LEED gold for commercial interiors.
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2011-12-27
Vulcan sells part of Merrill Place
Records show that an affiliate of Vulcan Real Estate sold a portion of Merrill Place, an office and retail building in Pioneer Square...
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2011-12-23
New tenants dock at Jack London Square
New office tenants have poured into the Jack London Square waterfront redevelopment in Oakland.
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2011-12-22
Puget Western winds up, Opus winds down
The recent sale of the Kendall Lake office building in Snoqualmie moves Opus Northwest another step toward shutting down.
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2011-12-19
Former church for sale in Alberta Arts District
A building that formerly housed a church in the Alberta Arts District of Northeast Portland is being pegged for use as a community center.
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2011-12-16
A cargo container building for sale in Georgetown: $1.5M
A commercial building made of cargo containers is for sale at 616 S. Lucille St. in Georgetown.
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2011-12-12
Tepid Life-Sciences Sector Gives Way to Booming Tech
Rapidly growing information-technology companies are competing and winning against the less-robust biotech and life-science sectors for premium real estate...
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2011-12-09
Prologis eyes Fife site for distribution center
Prologis is taking steps to build a 184,300 SF distribution center...
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2011-12-06
South Sound Business People, Hires/Promotions, Real Estate
Kidder Mathews in Tacoma has recently added to staff.
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2011-12-02
New space for indoor sports is under construction in Tacoma
Tacoma is getting a new 52,000-square-foot indoor sports space: Pacific Sports Center.
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2011-12-02
CBA Roundtable
Checking in with CBA's board of directors, we see that the economic climate hasn't changed much over the past year.
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2011-12-01
Kent Warehouse leases 240,000 SF at Northwest Corp Park
Kent Warehouse and Labeling has leased 240,000 square feet of warehouse space in the Northwest Corporate Park in Kent Valley.
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2011-11-28
Avaya signs huge lease in Santa Clara as commercial real estate heats up
Communications giant Avaya has signed a big lease in Santa Clara...
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2011-11-28
Commercial real estate forecast brightens - a little
Vacancy rates will decline in all major commercial real estate sectors in 2012, according to the first major outlook for the year.
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2011-11-22
Phase 2 of Seattle building energy tracking program begins
Sustainability consultant Jared Silliker, meets with Dave Low, director of sustainability practices at Kidder Mathews, in front of the Joseph Vance Building in downtown Seattle...
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2011-11-15
Equity plans housing in South Lake Union
Equity Residential asked the city of Seattle for early design guidance on a 275-unit apartment project on Minor Avenue North in South Lake Union near Amazon.com's headquarters.
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2011-11-15
Kent Warehouse and Labeling Leases 240,000 SF
Kent Warehouse and Labeling, a leader in logistics, packaging, warehousing and labeling services, has leased 240,000 square feet...
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2011-11-14
Kauri wants to subdivide Interbay site
Kauri Investments has applied for a permit with the city of Seattle to subdivide 7.67 acres it owns...
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2011-11-11
Kidder Mathews Names Ben Pollock, Jarrett Evans and Jeffrey Hutchins
Kidder Mathews continues its Bay Area growth with the addition of three more brokers...
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2011-11-10
People on the Move
Judson H. Clendaniel and Keven Russell joined Kidder Mathews' Bellevue office...
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2011-11-10
Logistics Firm Takes 240k sf of Warehouse Space in Kent Valley, WA
Kent Warehouse and Labeling has signed a lease for 240k sf of prime warehouse space...
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2011-11-09
Logistics company moving to new digs
Kent Warehouse and Labeling leased 240,000 square feet at Northwest Corporate Park in Kent.
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2011-11-09
The Old Immunex Headquarters, 51 University St., Being Reinvented Once More
The old waterfront warehouse that Immunex gutted and turned into Seattle's biotech hotspot in the 1980s and 1990s is being transformed once again.
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2011-11-08
Judson H. Clendaniel and Keven Russell Join Kidder Mathews
Judson H. Clendaniel, senior appraiser and consultant, and Keven Russell, appraiser and consultant, join the Kidder Mathews' Bellevue office.
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2011-11-02
Historic Tacoma urban design talk
Historic Tacoma will present a program entitled "Uncovering Tacoma's Authenticity: What's the draw?"
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2011-11-01
Distillery takes waterfront spot
Jason Parker, the former brew master at Pyramid, will open a distillery at 51 University on Seattle's waterfront.
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2011-11-01
Schnitzer sells Bothell building to Stockbridge
North Creek Place in Bothell sold for $24.5 million.
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2011-11-01
Seven Seas Looking at QFC Move
Seven Seas Brewing is considering moving into the old QFC space on Judson Street in downtown Gig Harbor.
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2011-10-28
Power plant battle shapes up
A private equity-backed New York firm is taking on Portland General Electric Co. in what amounts to a beauty contest to determine where Portland gets its power in the future.
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2011-10-28
Seattle Office Market Highlights
Demand remains fickle in Seattle and its surrounding areas as everyone searches for space in the popular Downtown, Southlake Union, Bellevue and Puget Sound markets.
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2011-10-24
Former home of Oregon governor for sale
A building in Portland's Goose Hollow neighborhood that once was the home of one of Oregon's most cantankerous politicians is for sale.
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2011-10-21
Punch Bowl comes to Pioneer Place
A Denver restaurateur will lease the entire third floor of downtown Portland's Pioneer Place rotunda in one of the largest retail transactions of the year.
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2011-10-20
Dirty or clean, they won't air the laundry
Who knew laundry could be so top secret?
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2011-10-19
Brokers predict some industrial construction will start next year
Seattle-area brokers say the industrial market is stabilizing and could start to see new warehouses and distribution centers start construction next year.
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2011-10-17
Meriwether buys complex in Oregon
Meriwether Partners of Seattle says it partnered with high-net worth individuals and family offices to buy Tanasbourne Commerce Center for $14.75 million.
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2011-10-13
NAIOP fall seminar
NAIOP's half-day fall seminar "Creating Value Part II: New Development" will be at 7:30 a.m. Oct. 19...
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2011-10-12
Gramor pays $9.5M for Renton property
The Chianti, a 75-unit Renton apartment complex, sold for just over $9.5 million to Gramor of Seattle.
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2011-10-07
Empty office space gets a bit scarcer in Seattle
Seattle's office-vacancy rate fell over the past three months, but commercial real-estate brokers differ on whether to expect further declines.
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2011-10-05
Fess up: Seattle wants to know what buildings waste energy
A new city ordinance requires managers of some 9,000 buildings to report their annual energy consumption to the city.
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2011-10-04
Appraisal Institute looks at green ROI
Appraisal Institute meeting about the return on investment in green building on Oct. 19.
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2011-10-01
Kidder Mathews adds four to Bellevue office
Kidder Mathews has added three retail specialist brokers and one office specialist to its Bellevue office.
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2011-09-30
Unusual steps for closing deals
What was the most unusual step you took to close a real estate deal?
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2011-09-28
Solyndra's $733M Plant Had Robots, Spa Showers
The glass-and-metal building that Solyndra LLC began erecting in Fremont, California, in September 2009, was something the Silicon Valley area hadn't seen in years: a new factory.
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2011-09-19
Deal-Wrap - Seattle
Prometheus Real Estate Group Inc. has purchased Surrey Park apartments in Mill Creek, WA in a $5.1 million transaction.
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2011-09-16
Giant bio site put on block
Six months after entitling an 82-acre waterfront commercial campus on Oyster Point in South San Francisco, owners Shorenstein Properties and SKS Development are quietly putting the huge property on the market.
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2011-09-15
People on the Move
Retail brokers Eric Bissell, Tom Dillon and Brad Bissell and office broker Chris Jensvold joined Kidder Mathews...
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2011-09-15
Symantec leases big office building that could contain up to 1,000 workers as tech expansion gallops on in South Bay
Symantec confirmed Wednesday it has leased a big office building in Mountain View with room for about 1,000 workers...
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2011-09-12
Prometheus Real Estate Group Adds Another Asset to Seattle Portfolio
Prometheus Real Estate Group, Inc. has purchased Surrey Park apartments in Mill Creek, WA in a $5.1 million transaction.
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2011-09-09
Gramor, New Seasons strike again
New Seasons President Lisa Sedlar, left, and Gramor Development President and co-founder Barry Cain go over plans at New Seasons’ new Progress Ridge location.
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2011-09-09
Brian Engelking Joins Kidder Mathews
Brian Engelking joins Kidder Mathews' Tacoma brokerage division...
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2011-09-07
SoloPower Snags Rare Large Block, Signs 225,250 SF
Clarion Partners leased 225,250 square feet of industrial space to SoloPower Inc. at Marine Dr. Distribution Center I
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2011-09-07
Essex buys Bernard from Brotman's LLC
A limited liability company managed by Costco Chairman Jeff Brotman sold the 64-unit Bernard Apartments at the base of Queen Anne to Essex Property Trust for $13.8 million...
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2011-09-06
At 51 University, labs will switch to office, retail
An old lab building at 51 University St. near Seattle's central waterfront will be converted to office and retail space...
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2011-09-06
San Diego firm buys Northgate complex
MG Properties of San Diego paid $22.2 million to Triad Development for the Park at Northgate Apartments.
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2011-09-02
Masins building could attract another tech tenant to Pioneer Sq.
Masins is leaving Seattle's Pioneer Square neighborhood.
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2011-09-02
Two office leases for Pioneer Square
A lease by a biofuels company and a creative services firm bring the Provident Building in Pioneer Square...
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2011-09-02
Rare real estate opportunity: Lake Union waterfront
There's a catch, but a rare piece of waterfront property is up for sale on Seattle's Lake Union.
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2011-09-02
JPMorgan Chase techies lease space outside HQ
A rapidly growing technology division of JPMorgan Chase has leased 35,000 square feet at 600 Harrison St.
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2011-09-02
Solyndra leaves over 1.5 million square feet of property in its wake
The news of Solyndra LLC's demise will impact the region's commercial real estate scene, considering the solar panel maker has more than 1.5 million square feet of space in the market.
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2011-09-01
Masins pulling furniture store out of Pioneer Square
Masins Fine Furnishings & Interior Design has put its building up for lease...
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2011-09-01
Masins wants new spot in Seattle
Pioneer Square is about to lose another key retail tenant: Masins furniture store.
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2011-08-30
Bruce Matesso Joins Kidder Mathews
Bruce Matesso joins Kidder Mathews' Silicon Valley office as a vice president...
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2011-08-29
SoloPower secures Portland lease
SoloPower secured a lease on North Marine Drive for its new Portland manufacturing facility.
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2011-08-29
SoloPower leases 225,250 square feet in North Portland
SoloPoer Inc. will lease a 225,250-square-foot building in North Portland's Rivergate Industrial District...
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2011-08-26
HP real estate sits on prime locations
With Hewlett-Packard's announcement that it might spin off its personal computer division, questions arise...
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2011-08-26
Downtown getting a department store
Paul Etsekson of B&W Investment Co. wants to convert space in the Kress Building for a new department store.
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2011-08-26
Hebert Research study calls Washington one of the nation's healthiest states
Jeff Lyon, chairman and CEO of Kidder Mathews, talks with Christalin Cramer and her brother, Josiah Cramer, at the Auction of Washington Wines gala.
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2011-08-26
Office market seeks a tipping point, except in Palo Alto
There are two office markets on the Peninsula right now: Palo Alto, and everywhere else.
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2011-08-19
Demand is up for life science space, but not for new projects
A shortage of life-science space combined with increasing demand will eventually trigger new development in Seattle...
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2011-08-18
Westlake Center office tower sold for $119.4M
The office tower and garage in downtown Seattle's Westlake Center sold yesterday.
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2011-08-18
Real Estate Buzz: Alsco plant faces deadline
Teutsch Partners recently completed a 200,000-square-foot build-to-suit in Lacey for Harbor Wholesale Grocery...
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2011-08-17
Report shows biotech space tight in Seattle
There's been an uptick in leasing activity in the Seattle-area life sciences market, leaving little office/lab space available in the city...
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2011-08-12
Tenants fill up South Lake Union warehouse turned into biotech space
The signing of a 10,000-square-foot lease by drug researcher Nativis completes the marketing of 219 Terry Avenue North...
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2011-08-12
Rental demand spurs Seattle apartment projects
With apartments in the Puget Sound area in increasingly short supply, prices are sizzling for well-located development sites with building permits.
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2011-08-11
JP Morgan Chase pays $480M for two Schnitzer West towers
Yesterday Schnitzer West sold two new office buildings in the Denny Triangle for $480 million.
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2011-08-05
Mercer Island office building goes for $3.7M
A 15,000-square-foot Mercer Island office building sold for $3.7 million.
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2011-08-05
Morrison Child & Family Services buys building
Morrison Child & Family Services purchases 22,400-square-foot office building from Verizon Business Services.
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2011-08-05
Eastern Western buys Medical Dental
A Portland-based real estate investment firm has purchased the Medical Dental Building...
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2011-08-01
Borgata Apt Homes Sells for $13M
The 83-unit Borgata Apartment Homes in Renton has been sold for $13.2 million.
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2011-07-29
Portland now major hub for $4.5B UTi
A $4.5 billion transportation company has quietly made downtown Portland a major hub for its global operations.
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2011-07-27
Goodman buys site on Elliott for $2.5M
Goodman Real Estate paid just over $2.5 million for an Elliott Avenue West property for a 114-apartment project.
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2011-07-26
Westwood Shipping is moving its HQ
The Benaroya Co. and Westwood Shipping Lines announced that the international shipping carrier will relocate its corporate headquarters to Puyallup.
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2011-07-22
Mapping Seattle's South Lake Union as a tech/research hub
A BizTalk blog post that illustrates how much South Lake Union has become a tech and life sciences hub.
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2011-07-22
Forsaken and burnt, NOAA's former piers in Seattle seek owner
Newport, Ore., will hold an open house next month to officially welcome NOAA to town.
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2011-07-22
Prime piece of South Lake Union waterfront up for grabs
There's a forsaken piece of property for sale in Seattle that just happens to be prime waterfront land in the hottest real estate spot in the Pacific Northwest...
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2011-07-21
Tenants, investors looking at Civic Square
Civic Square, the full-block development in downtown Seattle, was supposed to be wrapping up construction by now.
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2011-07-21
People on the Move
Kidder Mathews promoted Brian Hatcher to executive vice president for Washington and Oregon.
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2011-07-21
Map shows tech firms flocking to Seattle's S. Lake Union
Two Kidder Mathews senior vice presidents, Bill Neil and Chris Moe, have put together a nifty map showing just how many companies are located in Seattle's burgeoning South Lake Union neighborhood these days.
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2011-07-18
Kidder Mathews Promotes Brian Hatcher
Kidder Mathews announced today that it has promoted Brian Hatcher to executive vice president of its commercial real estate brokerage group for the Washington and Oregon region.
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2011-07-18
Seattle's office-vacancy rate expected to fall
Despite mixed reports from the second quarter, commercial real-estate agents agree the office-vacancy rate in Seattle is likely to fall during the rest of 2011.
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2011-07-16
Aging boomers drive growth at Franciscan, MultiCare in Tacoma
In a Tacoma commercial real estate market distinguished more by corporate defections than corporate recruitments, two homegrown businesses are providing new light where otherwise there is darkness.
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2011-07-13
Is Amazon adding space in West 8th?
Amazon.com is rumored to be leasing the rest of West 8th...
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2011-07-11
Partnership buys 3rd apartment here
Grosvenor USA and MT Asset Management paid $13.25 million for Borgata Apartments...
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2011-07-08
Four Corners LLC buys third site in Silicon Valley and is looking for more
Four Corners Properties is on a buying spree...
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2011-07-08
Nike takes Williams-Sonoma space
Nike Inc. has landed on the former Williams-Sonoma location as the new home for its downtown Portland flagship store...
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2011-07-07
Eastpointe Corporate Center sold for $32M
A group affiliated with the apparel wholesaler SanMar bought a large Issaquah office building that Boeing and Microsoft once occupied.
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2011-07-06
Goodman Real Estate Acquires Two Tacoma Apartments for $5.9M
Private Investor Sells Stoneride Apartments, Southern Pines in Separate Transactions
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2011-07-01
Private equity firm expands office space
Dan Cronan recently negotiated an expansion and long-term renewal of Genstar Capital...
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2011-07-01
Olive Lab Building sold to Stockbridge
Stockbridge Real Estate said it has purchased Seattle Children's Olive Lab Building...
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2011-06-24
Plan for 1,600 San Francisco homes may get green light
The on-again, off-again development of a new neighborhood between Candlestick Park and Highway 101 is poised to get a major boost...
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2011-06-23
Kidder Mathews
Building A in Quadrant I-5 Corporate Park in Everett was named the highest performing small building in the Kilowatt Crackdown.
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2011-06-23
NOAA is opening new $38M marine center in Newport, Ore.
The agency's 8.5-acre site on Lake Union is up for sale. Kidder Mathews calls it a "great development opportunity."
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2011-06-21
Quadrant I-5 Corporate Park (Building A) awarded for energy efficiency programs by BOMA for the 2011 Kilowatt Crackdown challenge
Quadrant I-5 Corporate Park awarded for energy efficiency programs
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2011-06-17
Oraya Therapeutics stays put ... for now
Oraya Therapeutics Inc. plans to stay in Newark, at least for now.
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2011-06-16
Real Estate Buzz: A big industrial deal
Meadowbrook Meat Co. takes 95,000 square feet at Rainier Park of Industry.
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2011-06-14
Northend real estate picking up thanks to Boeing, build to suits
Northend real estate experts, including one developer who is preparing to start a build-to-suit project, say the market is poised to rebound...
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2011-06-14
Washington's Best Workplaces finalists revealed
Happy workers equal a better bottom line.
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2011-06-02
Benaroya Capital buys industrial site
Benaroya Capital Co. bought land in Sumner that is entitled for a large warehouse.
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2011-06-01
Renton retail sold for $6M
Snohomish-based Dujardin Development sold the 29,000-square-foot Eastway Center for $6 million...
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2011-06-01
Top commercial property managers
Of the 26 property management firms that returned surveys to the Business Journal, 10 anticipate hiring in the coming months.
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2011-05-31
Portland broker leases a space, wins a classic car
Linking a tenant to a space is sure to get a commercial broker a commission, but in the case of Cliff Finnell, a broker with the Portland offices of Kidder Mathews, it also netted him a classic car.
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2011-05-27
New GHHWA president enlists help from all corners of town
Newly appointed president Gary Glein reflected on why he took the position.
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2011-05-26
Big VMware lease, big growth expected
VMware Inc. is on the verge of signing a lease to take over nearly 1 million square feet at the former Roche campus in Palo Alto...
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2011-05-25
Palo Alto-based VMware plans huge expansion
In one of Silicon Valley's biggest real estate deals in years, cloud-computing pioneer VMware confirmed Wednesday that it's expanding its headquarters...
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2011-05-19
Real Estate Buzz: Another big industrial lease
Industrial broker Todd Clarke and his colleagues at Kidder Mathews wrapped up a big industrial deal...
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2011-05-17
Geneva Foundation moving to Tacoma
The Geneva Foundation is moving its corporate office from Lakewood to Tacoma...
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2011-05-16
Seattle Launches New Building Energy Efficiency Program
Seattle is the latest in a series of major cities to join the burgeoning building energy efficiency initiative...
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2011-05-16
Amazon's shift to South Lake Union leaves empty feeling
While Amazon.com's move to spacious new digs in South Lake Union and the Denny Triangle has given the Seattle office market a huge boost...
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2011-05-13
Logitech takes 263,543 SF in Newark
The Pacific Research Center has seen a flurry of leasing activity in recent months, including landing its largest tenant to date - Logitech International S.A.
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2011-05-12
Seattle launches energy efficiency program
More than 800 commercial property owners and managers must start tracking the energy their buildings use as part of a new Seattle program...
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2011-05-12
CoStar Power Brokers
CoStar released this year's Power Broker list, based on sales and lease transactions it has tallied.
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2011-05-12
Geneva Foundation moving headquarters to Provident Building
The Geneva Foundation is relocating its corporate office from Lakewood to downtown Tacoma.
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2011-05-11
City Rolls Out New Program to Boost Building Energy Efficiency
The City of Seattle sent letters to more than 800 large commercial property owners and managers today informing them about a new citywide program...
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2011-05-11
Seattle Launches Energy Benchmarking Program for Commercial Buildings
Measuring and tracking the energy efficiency of its commercial buildings is now included in a formal benchmarking program that has been launched by the City of Seattle.
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2011-05-05
Kidder Mathews
Kidder Mathews is partnering with Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance to develop energy standards and tools for its property management business.
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2011-05-04
Gerding Edlen to develop Seattle project
Gerding Edlen Investment Management Co. has acquired an unbuilt apartment project in the heart of downtown Seattle.
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2011-05-04
Gerding Edlen Acquires Property in Seattle, Washington
Gerding Edlen today announces the acquisition of a property in Seattle...
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2011-05-03
Logitech moving to Newark
Logitech International SA will move its U.S. headquarters along with 1,000 employees from Fremont to Newark...
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2011-05-02
UW and Weidner join 'the fray,' buying apartments in Bothell
Bothell, already one of the tightest apartment markets in the region, just got tighter.
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2011-05-02
Logitech moves 1,000 jobs to Newark
Logitech International will move 1,000 employees to Newark and exit its current offices in Fremont...
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2011-04-29
Gerding Edlen buys site on Broadway
Portland developer Gerding Edlen yesterday bought an entitled development site next to Seattle University for $5.6 million.
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2011-04-27
Binswanger Forms Strategic Alliance to Provide Corporate Advisory Services With West Coast-Based Firm
Two major players in the real estate business, Binswanger and Kidder Mathews, are pleased to announce the formation of a strategic alliance...
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2011-04-26
San Francisco Activity Review
Here's a quick look at a recent sale and a trio of recent lease comps from San Francisco over the last month or so.
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2011-04-26
Kidder Mathews Named New Agents for Kent Valley Portfolio
Marketing, Leasing Assignments for Northwest Corporate Park, Kent North Corporate Park
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2011-04-22
Enecsys to hire 100 for U.S. headquarters
Enecsys, a United Kingdom-based maker of micro-inverters for solar panels, is establishing its U.S. headquarters in Redwood Shores...
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2011-04-22
HAL's $100M deal is year's biggest sale
In the biggest office deal so far this year, HAL Real Estate Investments Inc. in Seattle sold the Plaza at Yarrow Bay in Kirkland...
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2011-04-21
No joke: Interbay site is for sale
The Port 106 property next to the Interbay Golf Center in Seattle is also on the market.
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2011-04-20
Binswanger Forms Alliance with CH2M, West Coast-based Kidder Mathews
Binswanger and Kidder Mathews have formed a strategic alliance offering global corporate advisory services...
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2011-04-15
Kidder Mathews lands huge lease deal
Kent North Corporate Park is part of a 3.7 million-square-foot marketing and leasing deal awarded to Kidder Mathews.
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2011-04-15
Enecsys to hire 100 for U.S. HQ in Redwood Shores
Enecsys, a United Kingdom-based maker of micro-inverters for solar panels, is establishing its U.S. headquarters...
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2011-04-15
Kidder wins large leasing assignment
Kidder Mathews brokers said yesterday that Principal Real Estate Investors selected them to lease nearly 3.8 million square feet...
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2011-04-12
Startup Boom Push Rents to New Highs in SF
You're the head of a growing San Francisco startup looking to cut a sweet deal on a "creative" new office space...
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2011-04-08
Clarisonic moving to Redmond
Clarisonic, one of the country's fastest growing private companies, is moving from Bellevue to Redmond...
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2011-04-08
Downtown office-vacancy rates heading down this year
Two commercial real-estate brokerages say the office-vacancy rate in Seattle dropped a little over the past three months.
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2011-04-07
Elysian turning Georgetown warehouse into new brewery
Elysian Brewing Co. has three brew pubs in Seattle. The brewery will allow it to double production and expand distribution.
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2011-04-05
Industrial market is improving here
The amount of vacant space in Puget Sound-area warehouses decreased slightly during the first quarter.
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2011-04-01
Stockbridge buys Queen Anne Square
Stockbridge Real Estate acquired another Seattle office property this week...
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2011-04-01
200-Unit Waterford Place Trade in Snohomish County: $18.2 million Multifamily Deal
Kidder Mathews has closed the $18.2 million sale of the 200-unit Waterford Place...
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2011-03-31
Office vacancy rate creeps up
Despite a number of big leases recently, the office vacancy rate in downtown Seattle increased about half a point to nearly 14 percent.
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2011-03-31
Big technology leases mark Q1 in Seattle
Tech firms led the leasing of nearly one million square feet of office space in downtown Seattle...
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2011-03-31
Tech companies setting the pace for leasing office space in Seattle
Amazon.com, Isilon Systems and Zillow.com have led the charge on leasing new office space in Seattle so far in 2011.
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2011-03-29
UWT School of Business announces 2011 award winners
The University of Washington Tacoma Milgard School of Business has announced the winners of the 10th Annual Business Leadership Awards.
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2011-03-26
Vacant QFC Draws Interest From Small Grocers
Much as they would like it, Gig Harbor residents aren't going to see Trader Joe's, Metropolitan Market or Whole Foods Market replace the QFC...
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2011-03-25
Best Land Deal Winner - Salesforce.com, Real Estate Deals of the Year
Alexandria sells Mission Bay sites for $278M.
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2011-03-25
Best R&D Sale / Lease finalist - Bayer U.S. Innovation Center, Real Estate Deals of the Year
Salesforce.com is moving in, but the heart of San Francisco's Mission Bay remains life sciences research and development.
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2011-03-25
Local office brokers eye telecom merger
Two million square feet of office space on the Eastside could come into play...
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2011-03-24
Trader Joe's won't be moving to Gig Harbor
Until Trader Joe's opens its Silverdale store this summer, folks across the bridge will still be required to visit the mainland to do their niche shopping.
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2011-03-23
51 University sold to Equity
Seven months after buying a building on Seattle's waterfront for $6.85 million, Goodman Real Estate sold it for $11.75 to Equity Residential...
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2011-03-22
No Takers Yet for Downtown GH QFC Building
It could be some time yet before there's a new tenant for the recently vacated downtown QFC.
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2011-03-15
Bank pays $6M for I-5 office building
Sterling Bank bought an Interstate 5 office building that was once occupied by subprime wholesale mortgage lender MILA.
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2011-03-11
Biotech space scarce in Seattle
Space is tight in Seattle's South Lake Union area...
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2011-03-11
Ace Hardware opening on South Hill
Ace Hardware will open a new South Hill location this summer...
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2011-03-09
Owner of Russell building to push for tenant
The Seattle-based owner of Tacoma's highest profile empty office building is beginning the process to fill it up again.
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2011-03-07
Merrill Place has landed 2 tenants
Merrill Place has signed two new tenants, Blue Nile and Restaurants Unlimited...
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2011-03-03
An officina nueva for Mexican Consulate
It's not the biggest office lease, but it is kind of intriguing...
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2011-02-27
Hires and promotions
Reed Payne joins Kidder Mathews in San Francisco as executive vice president...
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2011-02-25
Puget Sound Market Shows Signs of Improvement
Kidder Mathews completed the largest multifamily real estate transaction in Snohomish County so far this year...
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2011-02-24
PUD Recognizes CDi Engineers
Snohomish County Public Utility District today recognized the exceptional efforts of CDi Engineers...
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2011-02-24
200-Unit Washington Multifamily Complex Trades for Over $18 Mil
In a major Washington state multifamily sale, Waterford Place, a 200-unit property located in the Silver Lake area of Everett, sold for $18.2 mil...
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2011-02-23
Snohomish County apartments sell for $18.2 million
The 200-unit Waterford Place apartment complex in the Silver Lake area of Everett sold recently for $18.2 million.
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2011-02-22
Aurora Algae moves to Hayward
Aurora Algae, which uses algae to create food and biofuel, has struck a deal to move its headquarters...
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2011-02-22
BlackRock sells Everett apartments for 10% loss
Waterford Place, a 200-unit apartment property in Everett, sold for $18.2 million...
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2011-02-17
Dendreon eyes Russell Center tower as new headquarters
Up-and-coming Seattle biotech Dendreon, in the market for a new headquarters for nearly two years...
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2011-02-07
Newcastle units to get upgrades
The new owner of the 30-unit Del Mar Village Apartments in Newcastle says he plans to renovate the project.
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2011-02-04
GCL-Poly Energy moves its HQ to One Market
GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Ltd. is moving its North American headquarters to One Market St. in San Francisco.
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2011-02-04
People on the Move
Reed Payne has joined Kidder Mathews as executive vice president...
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2011-02-03
People on the Move
Stan Sidor has earned Member, Appraisal Institute designation.
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2011-02-01
Puget Sound-Area Apartments Trade for $9.4 Million
Adlerbrooke Associates LLC has completed the $9.4 million sale of the 115-unit Alderbrooke Apartments
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2011-02-01
Reed Payne Joins Kidder Matthews as Executive VP
In a notable NoCal pro move, long-time Bay Area commercial real estate broker and former CB Richard Ellis (CBRE)...
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2011-01-27
People on the Move
Andy Noble joined Kidder Mathews; Stan Sidor earns MAI designation.
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2011-01-26
Seattle lab space tight
Startup life sciences companies in the Puget Sound area are still having a hard time finding small office/lab spaces to lease...
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2011-01-26
Judson St. QFC to close
Supermarket workers on Judson Street have been notified of impending layoffs.
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2011-01-26
Daley joins Kidder Mathews in Portland
Sara Daley has joined Kidder Mathews' Portland office as a senior associate
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2011-01-22
Changes coming to Kidder Mathews
West Coast commercial real estate firm Kidder Mathews has dropped GVA from its name and its operations.
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2011-01-21
Seattle sees slight drop in empty offices
The numbers vary, but the message they convey is the same...
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2011-01-21
Changes afoot for commercial brokerage Kidder Mathews, which has an office in Tacoma
West Coast commercial real estate firm Kidder Mathews has dropped GVA from its name and its operations.
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2011-01-21
Retail, office space opens on Kirkland's Central Way
Joseph S. Simmons Construction last summer finished a 4,500-square-foot retail and office building at 13 Central Way in Kirkland...
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2011-01-19
Kidder Mathews drops ties to GVA Group
Commercial real estate services firm Kidder Mathews has changed its name...
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2011-01-19
Kidder Mathews drops ties to GVA group
GVA Kidder Mathews has ended its affiliation with the GVA Worldwide network...
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2011-01-16
Consultant: Retail best bet for land near airport
Kidder Mathews hired by the Great Falls International Airport Authority...
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2011-01-14
Kidder Mathews drops the 'GVA'
Kidder Mathews, one of Portland's largest commercial real estate firms, is re-branding after dropping its affiliation with the GVA Worldwide network.
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2011-01-13
Real Estate Buzz: Office rebound: Sooner than you think?
Circle last Friday as the day the recession ended in Seattle.
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2011-01-05
Federal Way office sold for $4.4M
A 2-year-old office building in the West Campus area of Federal Way sold Monday for $4.4 million...
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2011-01-03
2010 not great for building owners
The good news is that the region's leasing market is at or very near the bottom, according to Kidder Mathews.
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2011-01-03
Not So Fast: Monroe group forms to fight Walmart
A group formed to fight Walmart now has a new logo, and petitions are going out to businesses around town.
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2010-12-30
Sabey buying site for Walmart
Sabey is buying 24 acres in Monroe where Walmart plans to build a 155,000-square-foot store.
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2010-12-28
Pension fund manager buys second Seattle site
For the second time in a week, a Swedish pension fund adviser has acquired a high-rise development site on Seattle's First Hill.
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2010-12-24
Kidder Mathews decides to drop its ties to the GVA group
After seven years, the Seattle real estate services firm GVA Kidder Mathews is dropping its affiliation with GVA and shortly will simply be known as Kidder Mathews.
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2010-12-24
Transamerica almost full after two new leases inked
It's becoming less and less lonely at the top of the Transamerica Pyramid tower.
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2010-12-23
Airport Authority approves United Materials settlement
The Great Falls Airport Authority voted unanimously Wednesday to approve a lawsuit settlement...
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2010-12-22
Mastro's First Hill site sells for $5.4M
Public records show that a development site next to Harborview Medical Center on First Hill sold yesterday for nearly $5.4 million.
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2010-12-20
Monroe sells N. Kelsey land for $2 million less than last year's price
Walmart may be tenant, if Monroe shoppers wind up getting good deals...
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2010-12-20
Hutch pays $36M for new building
The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center bought 1100 Eastlake...
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2010-12-17
People on the Move
Martin Church has joined Redwood City-based GVA Kidder Mathews...
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2010-12-17
Green River Valley faces insurance, development woes
Milt Vine, president of Seattle Bindery, checks out the levee between the Green River...
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2010-12-16
GVA Kidder Mathews, SkB Architects
PATH's Seattle headquarters is LEED gold certified.
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2010-12-16
Kidder Mathews will go it alone
When GVA Kidder Mathews' long-planned breakup with GVA Worldwide becomes official at the end of the year, don't look for the Puget Sound region's largest commercial real estate brokerage - based on the number of full-time licensed agents - to be on the singles' circuit.
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2010-12-16
Monroe sells N. Kelsey property for $2 million less than an offer last year
The city may soon learn what big-box store plans to move in.
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2010-12-16
Kidder Mathews will go it alone
When GVA Kidder Mathews' long-planned breakup with GVA Worldwide becomes official at the end of the year...
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2010-12-09
What caused costly leak in Tacoma's Urban Waters building?
Tacoma's new Center for Urban Waters cost $38 million and won awards and high praise for design and engineering.
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2010-12-09
115-unit apartment sells for $9.4M
Alderbrooke Apartments, a 115-unit garden style property in Lynnwood at 18505 36th Ave. W., has sold...
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2010-12-08
VECA pays $8.4M for warehouses
VECA Electric & Communications bought a two-building warehouse/office property in the Georgetown neighborhood for $8.35 million.
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2010-12-07
$5.2M warehouse sale in Redmond
A fund controlled by TA Realty of Boston paid almost $5.23 million last week for a 68,000-square-foot Redmond warehouse with some office space.
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2010-12-03
Semiconductor CEO building Santa Clara real estate portfolio
U.S. Microtech CEO Shri Chawla saw an opportunity to expand his operations by buying the building that houses his business.
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2010-12-01
Hill-Raaum sells $8.7M warehouse
Public records show that Hill-Raaum Investment Co. sold an Auburn warehouse Monday for $8.7 million.
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2010-11-29
NOAA site on Lake Union on the market
The site, with 915 feet of waterfront and three piers, could provide moorage and other services for fishing vessels or luxury yachts.
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2010-11-27
Workers to assess lab damage
City officials were unable to provide a damage estimate Friday for sophisticated laboratory equipment doused with water after a pipe broke...
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2010-11-26
Tacoma's Center for Urban Waters springs a leak
Tacoma's newest showcase building - the Center for Urban Waters - sprang a leak Thursday.
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2010-11-23
HAL buys 7th & Madison for $31M
Officials from HAL Real Estate Investments said they're buying 7th & Madison in Seattle for $30.8 million...
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2010-11-22
7th & Madison and Lakeview are sold
HAL Real Estate Investments is buying 7th & Madison for $30.8 million and plans to lease it to the Polyclinic.
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2010-11-22
Seventh and Madison building sells for $31M
The Seventh and Madison building in downtown Seattle sold for $30.8 million.
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2010-11-20
Former downtown Tacoma dairy will house Social Security offices
Starting next fall, downtown Tacoma's renovated Foremost Dairy building will be home to some offices of the Social Security Administration.
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2010-11-12
'Dirt' is starting to move on First Hill
Signs that institutional capital is starting to flow again can be found on Seattle's Pill Hill, where buyers are moving in...
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2010-11-09
Essex Property Continues Buying Streak
ssex Property Trust, the Palo Alto-based apartment REIT, purchased the Courtyard Off Main Apartments in Bellevue for $30 million.
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2010-11-08
NAIOP names Vulcan Developer of the Year
Vulcan Real Estate has been named Developer of the Year by the Washington state chapter of NAIOP, a commercial real estate development trade group.
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2010-11-05
Bellevue apartments fetch $30M
A Palo Alto, Calif.-based real estate investment trust specializing in apartments has made its first purchase in downtown Bellevue.
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2010-11-05
Courtyard off Main is sold in Bellevue
Last week Essex Property Trust bought Courtyard Off Main, an apartment complex in downtown Bellevue, for $30 million, public records show.
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2010-11-04
No comment on 7th & Madison buyer
There's some interesting buzz about who's acquiring 7th & Madison, but the rumored buyers aren't talking.
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2010-11-04
People on the Move
Gary Guenther, senior vice president and partner of GVA Kidder Mathews, has been elected...
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2010-11-03
Seniors Site Sale Closes Three-Year Escrow
A joint venture of Bayview Hunters Point Multipurpose Senior Service Inc. and developer McCormack Barron Salazar...
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2010-10-29
Developers buy Bayview site for senior project
A new team of developers just bought the site of the third phase of 5800 Third St. in San Francisco's Bayview...
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2010-10-29
Vacancies plague Federal Way commercial property owners; economy hampers ability to attract tenants
The blackened windows and empty parking lots of vacated storefronts and commercial spaces have become a familiar site.
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2010-10-28
7th & Madison: We have a winner
With some high-profile, distressed office properties now on the market, we're getting a glimpse at what the bottom will look like.
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2010-10-14
People on the Move
Rose Chiado has joined the Tacoma office of GVA Kidder Mathews.
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2010-10-14
Sabey wanted Fed building, but not now
The rumor was true that Sabey Corp. was the buyer of the Federal Reserve's former downtown Seattle branch.
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2010-10-11
NAIOP names finalists for Night of the Stars
Bob Parks of TRF Pacific will be inducted into the NAIOP Hall of Fame...
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2010-10-08
Calif. to sell off office buildings to generate cash
Part of the budget passed by the Legislature early Friday morning gives the green light for the state to sell off 11 office buildings...
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2010-10-06
Office vacancies flat in Seattle and Eastside
Flat. That's the word brokers use most in describing change - or lack of it - in the Seattle office market during July, August and September.
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2010-10-01
Opus NW's building givebacks stimulate Seattle, Portland
The first major office building to go back to the bank in downtown Seattle in this downturn could become a spoiler...
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2010-09-28
A little good news for Seattle office market
For the first time since the end of 2008, the commercial office vacancy rate in the Seattle area declined...
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2010-09-24
Deal of the year winner: 500,000-square-foot lease keeps solar giant in Silicon Valley
In the midst of the downturn, the single largest warehouse/manufacturing lease to hit Silicon Valley in two decades was signed in October 2009...
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2010-09-24
Salpare Bay condo developer now plans apartments
Michael DeFrees retools the beleaguered project.
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2010-09-24
4 firms take space in Russell Center
Four new office leases totaling 75,000 square feet were announced yesterday by the team marketing space in Russell Investments Center.
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2010-09-24
Property managers star in time of slower sales
It may lack glamour, but property management gains in importance.
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2010-09-24
Colliers shutdown shifts Tacoma brokerage landscape
Brokers find new homes with boutique firms.
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2010-09-23
BioMed moves ahead with expansion plans
BioMed Realty Trust is moving ahead with plans to expand its Fairview Research Center in South Lake Union.
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2010-09-20
Lender takes control of downtown office building
The 7th & Madison building, prominently located on I-5 overlooking downtown Seattle, has been turned over to its lender to head off foreclosure...
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2010-09-17
7th & Madison going for $175 a square foot
The empty new office building called 7th & Madison on Seattle's First Hill is being offered for sale at less than half of the replacement cost.
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2010-09-13
What Will Happen to ZymoGenetics' Landmark Headquarters when Bristol Calls the Shots?
The big question these days in Seattle biotech is about people.
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2010-09-10
Montgomery Street tower may go on market
Another downtown building may be coming to market.
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2010-09-08
Pepsico/Quaker takes big space in Tacoma
The Puget Sound region's largest industrial lease of the year - a newly signed 444,400-square-foot deal with Pepsico/Quaker Distribution...
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2010-09-03
Quaker inks this year's largest industrial lease, in Tacoma
In what real estate sources say is the largest new industrial lease in the Puget Sound area so far this year, PepsiCo Inc. subsidiary Quaker has leased 444,400 square feet...
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2010-09-03
HighMark opens Issaquah medical office
HighMark earlier this summer opened its 46,000-square-foot Highmark Medical Center at 1740 Maple St. in Issaquah.
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2010-09-02
Retail, office project complete on Central Way in Kirkland
Joseph S. Simmons Construction recently completed the 13 Central Way project in Kirkland.
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2010-08-27
People on the Move
Joel Shabel has joined GVA Kidder Mathews' Tacoma brokerage division as an associate vice president.
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2010-08-27
Old Bellevue retail building is sold
An LLC paid $2.4 million for a retail property at 10235 Main St., in Old Bellevue Tuesday.
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2010-08-23
ACU purchases former Venture Bank building
America's Credit Union (ACU), has acquired the 54,000 square foot commercial office building 1495 Wilmington Drive...
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2010-08-19
ISB moving its HQ to South Lake Union
The Institute for Systems Biology is leasing 140,000 square feet at 401 Terry Ave. N.
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2010-08-19
Avalon Towers Bellevue: the gamble seems to be paying off
The 144-unit west tower opened in April and is full, another sign downtown Bellevue's market is improving.
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2010-08-18
Tacoma's old Foremost Dairy to be transformed
Foremost: Immigrant investors financing renovation; who new tenants will be still a mystery.
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2010-08-13
Law firms ink leases in downtown San Francisco
Law firms have been signing leases in San Francisco.
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2010-08-13
Deal-Wrap
Johnson Creek Shopping Center, located in the Portland east side suburb of Clackamas just off of I-205, sold for $21.5 million.
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2010-08-10
People on the Move
Joel Shabel has joined GVA Kidder Mathews' Tacoma brokerage division as an associate vice president.
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2010-08-06
People on the Move
Tim Castello joined GVA Kidder Mathews' office in Redwood City as senior vice president.
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2010-08-05
People on the Move
Office properties specialist Joel Shabel joined GVA Kidder Mathews' Tacoma brokerage division as an associate vice president.
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2010-08-04
Multicare Signs Lease
MultiCare Health Systems has completed a five-year lease transaction for 25,150 square feet of office space at Horizon Pacific Center...
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2010-08-01
Soma So Hip
Technology: San Francisco’s South of Market, sandwiched between Mission Bay and the Financial district, is blossoming.
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2010-07-30
For brokers and brokerages, lull is an opportunity to switch
Work for most commercial real estate agents remains sparse in the Bay Area since the market's creep-back.
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2010-07-30
Fremont research park fills every foot in only 10 months
It's all about numbers: Charging a very low number in rent can help reach a very high number in occupancy.
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2010-07-30
HighMark Investments Announces the Completion of Its Newly Constructed Medical Building, Highmark Medical Center
HighMark offers its tenants an eco-friendly, LEED Gold Certified, 3-story, 46,000 square foot, Class A medical office building.
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2010-07-29
Grocery-anchored retail is hot
In the last three years, only three grocery-anchored retail centers in the region have sold.
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2010-07-29
Clackamas shopping center sells for $21.5
A shopping center in Clackamas has sold for $21.5 million.
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2010-07-16
Puget Sound biotech space hard to find
While the office leasing market still struggles with the recession, local biotechs are finding lab space in Seattle is in short supply...
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