Alaska to fly to eight cities from Everett’s Paine Field

HORIZON SERVICE TO START THIS FALL 13 nonstop departures ultimately planned to West Coast cities daily By CHRISTINE CLARRIDGE AND DOMINIC GATES Seattle Times staff reporters Alaska Airlines announced Tuesday that it will begin offering nonstop flight service from Paine Field airport in Everett to more than a half-dozen destinations starting this fall. The Seattle-based … Read more

Maybe its time Seattle leadership pays attention to the entire business community

Remember Boeing? Ashley Stewart Staff Writer Puget Sound Business Journal Seattle politicians to Amazon: ‘We would like to hit the refresh button’ Oct 16, 2017, 2:52pm PDT Updated: Oct 17, 2017, 11:52am PDT A group of Seattle politicians including city council members, state lawmakers and Port of Seattle commissioners sent a letter to Amazon CEO … Read more

Amazons HQ2 search could be not so good news for Seattle

  Amazon.com Inc.’s decision to establish a second corporate headquarters is going to make some North American city very happy once the online retail behemoth announces its choice next year. But it will likely be bad news for Seattle, Amazon’s longtime home, which has benefited enormously from the company’s rapid growth. Analysts predict that much … Read more

CRE has answers for your 1031 Exchange needs

We recently listed two excellent choices for exchange buyers,owner users or value add buyers. 500 Everett Mall Parkway Plaza is a mixed use retail and office development a short distance from Paine Field and the Boeing complex. It is fully leased and has expansion possibilities for another 20,000 plus square feet of mixed use space. … Read more

CRENorthwest markets mixed-use development FOR SALE

CRE Northwest is marketing 500 Everett Mall Plaza for sale.  Confidentiality Agreement and Offering Memorandum located here. The property is offered for $6,500,000 with a projected CAP of 7.2%. The property consists of both Retail and Office tenants and there is additional land available for further expansion. 500 Everett  Mall Plaza is located a short distance from Paine … Read more

CRE Northwest congratulates its client Intentional Software on joining the Microsoft team

CRE Northwest congratulates Charles Simonyi and his team which include Magnus Christerson Executive Vice President and Hartley Paul Legal Counsel on their merger with Microsoft. Intentional Software, the Bellevue-based startup founded by the Microsoft veteran who oversaw the creation of products including Word and Excel. Charles Simonyi in 2002 left Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) to start … Read more

SLU site coming to market

A once-in-a-lifetime development play is slowly unfolding in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood, where the city is getting ready to sell some large properties. Together the mostly vacant properties on Mercer Street and Aurora Avenue North total 2.75 acres and are near some world-renowned institutions and businesses, such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, … Read more

Seattle-area office market edges closer to the peak

The Puget Sound region’s office market has not yet peaked, but it’s getting closer to doing so, according to a new report. Fueled by robust job growth, especially in the tech sector, new buildings are getting leased up for now, according to the report, which commercial real estate services company JLL (NYSE: JLL) issued Monday. … Read more

Two downtown Seattle tower sites will hit the market soon

Developable land in downtown Seattle is hard to come by, so interest in two sites about to hit the market will likely be high. As part of its $1.6 billion addition, the Washington State Convention Center is working to get the city’s approval to develop a 29-story apartment tower and a 16-story office building, which … Read more

Commercial Real Estate loves its Buzzwords and Acronyms – GAFA

Marc Stiles – Staff WriterPuget Sound Business Journal Amazon and some other tech companies have become so dominant in commercial real estate that there’s now an acronym to describe the phenomenon. “GAFA” stands for Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple. The first three companies are leasing up new buildings in the Puget Sound region, while Apple is expanding … Read more