Seattle

KIRKLAND, WA-A separate account client of Morristown, NJ-based SSR Realty's Multi-Housing business unit acquires the 161-unit property from an affiliate of SECO Development Inc. The sale price was $31 million.

REDMOND, WA-The Northwest office of the Phoenix-based multifamily operation manages approximately 1,700 units in six apartment communities in the Northwest and is looking to grow its presence.

BELLEVUE, WA-The creator of CD-Rom games aimed at young females is relocating from 2,800 sf in the 520 Corridor area of Bellevue to 7,100 sf on the south side of the Bellevue CBD.

SEATTLE-"TOPOFF 2," a congressionally-mandated exercise to test local, regional, state and federal responses to terrorism, has local state and federal officials responding to a simulated radiological dispersal device in south Seattle this week.

SEATTLE- Demolition permits for Sound Transit's 27-acre operation and maintenance center have been approved by city officials, Mayor Greg Nickels said today.

OLMPIA, WA-Port of Olympia Commissioners gave a thumbs up this week to constructing the Port Plaza near Percival Landing. The controversial idea has been bouncing around the community for nearly a decade.

SEATTLE-After a couple of years of negotiating, the YWCA and the private developer have exchanged parcels, each valued at $1.4 million. The land in question is located in Belltown, on the east side of Third Avenue, between Virginia and Lenora streets.

SEATTLE, WA-Asking rents in the new South Lake Union building aren't what the developers originally envisioned, but Bryan Syrdal says they're workable and the building is attracting tenants. The first to sign is the Seattle bio-tech company, Zymogenetics.