Mill Creek Residential breaks ground on 290-unit Des Moines project

Modera Woodmont Beach in Des Moines will have six residential buildings totaling 290 units when completed. EDI International By Shawna De La Rosa – Reporter, Puget Sound Business Journal Mar 24, 2026 Story Highlights Mill Creek Residential broke ground this week on a 290-unit apartment development in Des Moines. The first phase will begin leasing

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Port of Everett seeks developer for Mukilteo waterfront project

The Port of Everett is moving forward with its plans to redevelop the Mukilteo waterfront. Courtesy of the Port of Everett By Akielly Hu – Reporter, Puget Sound Business Journal Feb 26, 2026 Updated Feb 27, 2026 9:59am PST Story Highlights What’s This? The Port of Everett will launch a developer search this spring for the 26-acre Mukilteo

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The Playbook: How the winter months impact worker anxiety, productivity

By Marq Burnett – Associate Editor, The Playbook, The Business Journals Nov 10, 2025 Editor’s Note: Welcome to The Playbook Edition, a look at stories, trends and changes that could affect your business. Want more stories like this in your inbox? Sign up for The Playbook newsletter.  Winter months mean new anxieties for workers As temperatures drop and

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Forest for the trees

Forterra, a Seattle nonprofit that began in 1989, rose to national prominence with its innovative approach to conservation. Then, an ambitious endeavor nearly toppled it. Forterra CEO Michelle Connor says the nonprofit is moving forward in a “thoughtful way” after a controversy forced it to scale back. Philanthropy & Nonprofits Anthony Bolante | PSBJ By Marc

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First multifamily units open at Sunrise development in South Hill

Shawna De La Rosa – Reporter, Puget Sound Business Journal Jul 2, 2024 Corliss Management Group has completed the first of nearly 1,000 multifamily units planned for the Sunrise master-planned community in Puyallup’s South Hill area. The developer has just opened the first two buildings at The Douglas at Sunrise, a 120-unit apartment complex that will

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Point Ruston receiver booted after lender raises concerns

By Shawna De La Rosa – Reporter, Puget Sound Business Journal Jul 17, 2024   Listen to this article3 min Los Angeles-based Stapleton Group Inc. was named receiver for seven properties at Point Ruston in Tacoma by Pierce County Superior Court Judge Stanley Rumbaugh in late June. Stapleton will replace Lynnwood-based Resource Transition Consultants, which became the court-appointed receiver in

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Go With The Flow

At the site of Seattle’s first large-scale mass timber building, developers have incorporated infrastructure to address a common runoff problem Mark Grey, of the Hess Callahan Grey Group, is part of the development team at Northlake Commons. The project’s native plant-filled bioswale is a unique large-scale partnership with Seattle Public Utilities that will filter 2.6

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A generational tug-of-war is hampering the housing market — and limiting buyers’ options

By Andy Medici – Senior Reporter, The Playbook, The Business Journals Feb 25, 2024 Homebuyers in today’s market are increasingly faced with an inconvenient but inescapable truth — there are fewer homes for sale and the ones on the market are often in need of big repairs and renovations. That’s because far fewer homes have been built

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Point Ruston properties put in receivership are now up for sale

By Shawna De La Rosa – Reporter, Puget Sound Business Journal Jan 22, 2024   Listen to this article4 min Seven properties in the Point Ruston mixed-use development on the Tacoma waterfront are on the market after a recent ruling by a Pierce County Superior Court judge. It’s the latest chapter in an ongoing legal drama involving

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Experts are watching these six key indicators for Seattle’s economy in 2024

Here are the metrics these nine economists and analysts are paying attention to as 2024 gets underway. By Neetish Basnet – Data reporter, Puget Sound Business Journal What difference a year can make. Fears of recession were widespread this time last year. But, while it’s still early days, the economy seems to have unstuck itself from the

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