Mixed Use Development

ScanlanKemperBard (SKB), a Portland-based real estate company, has expanded its Seattle holdings by purchasing the Original Rainier Brewery, a historic facility in the industrial Georgetown neighborhood. The 187,477 square feet mixed-use property consists of four brick-and-timber structures that date back to the early 1900s, and was declared a historic landmark in 1993. The property was refurbished […]

Last week, Seattle’s new Hyatt Regency Hotel opened on the north side of downtown near the site of the planned Washington State Convention Center addition. At 500 ft, 45 stories and 1,264 guest rooms (complete with floor-to-celing windows), it is now the largest hotel in the Northwest region. The design by LMN architects features 103,000 square […]

Currently, Interstate-5 acts as a foreboding barrier running through downtown, both for pedestrian traffic and business expansion. While the roadway is already capped in part by Freeway Park, a far more ambitious lidding project may be on the horizon. The group LID I-5 has long pushed for such a development, and last year $1.5 million […]

Modular buildings, which are fabricated in pieces offsite before being assembled onsite, have long been touted as affordable and sustainable alternatives in housing construction. But now larger buildings are getting the pre-fab treatment as well. Last week, Dutch hotel chain Citizen M began stacking up its latest building in South Lake Union. CitizenM constructs its […]

After many delays and a long wait, the Whole Foods in the recently completed Danforth building in the First Hill neighborhood will open on October 30. The 40,000 sq ft store will include a bakery, butcher department, self-squeeze orange juice, an espresso bar, and a fast-casual restaurant with beer and cider on tap. This location […]

Amazon has announced plans for a new Amazon Go store to open in Fall of 2018 in the Madison Centre office tower. This is the first new store since the original location nestled by the Amazon Spheres open this past winter. Amazon Go is a grocery retail outlet that allows shoppers to pay for groceries […]

Traditionally, private clubs for business types have been perched on the top of skyscrapers or nestled on golf-courses out in the burbs. But a new trend is developing in which urban ground-level space is becoming the new elite hangout. ClubCorp’s The Collective in Southlake Union is pioneering this trend. Located at the Juno Building, half of […]

Since 1950, Northgate Mall has been a large single-story shopping complex surrounded by parking lots. But that is about to change. An adjacent light rail expansion is in the works for 2021, causing the mall’s owners to start talking about re-configuring the shopping center’s 55-acre space into a denser mixed-use development echoing the urban core. While between […]