BELLEVUE, WA-The city of Bellevue, which is preparing to overhaul its 10-year comprehensive plan, is holding a community meeting this week to receive input from residents and business owners. Issues facing the city include lack of affordable housing, downtown development and traffic.
BOISIE, ID-The 14,400-sf building is being built on two-acres in the 45-acre Blackeagle Center business park near the Boise Airport. Alaska is leasing the space from the park's owner, Sundance Co.
SEATTLE-The Seattle-based company, which provides rental prices, amenities, pictures, floor plans and tax records to commercial real estate professionals, hires Bill Strader, formerly a vice president of RealFacts, an Apartmentcomps competitor.
REDMOND, WA-The project, which will feature 308 moderately-priced apartment units and a 4,500-sf daycare facility, is said to be the first of its kind in the United States. Developers of the project hope that it will solve traffic congestion by minimizing the need for cars.
SEATTLE-The proposal is intended to make it easier for the city to punish owners who raise rents or send eviction notices to renters who complain about apartment conditions. Owners fear it would limit their ability to evict bad tenants and penalize silent partners who have no knowledge of a violation.
AUBURN, WA-A&M Warehouse, which collects and distributes liquor shipments and customs-bonded freight cargo, has leased 192,000 sf of warehouse space here in the Valley Centre Corporate Park. A&M is paying 32 cents per sf per month for the space.
BELLEVUE, WA-The $40 million project by Houston-based Hines will feature a raised floor system, which will cost about $4 a sf to create but make heating, cooling, electrical and communications easier to configure and reconfigure, as compared to running utilities in walls and ceilings.
CLE ELUM, WA-Bill Lyche, director of development for the 6,226-acre MountainStar Resort, says the county's land use approval is a huge victory, opening the door for other resort developments in the area.
SEATTLE-Under the merger, expected to take place by the end of the year, the Eastside Business Journal will integrate its 18 employees and it's free request/subscriber base of 10,400 into is parent publication, the Puget Sound Business Journal, which has 42 employees and a paid circulation of 21,121.
SEATTLE-UReal next week will begin marketing a collaborative software tool that enables brokers to show properties to clients on-ine in an interactive, real-time environment. The service, currently in beta-test mode, will be available in December.
