Making Commercial Areas Walkable & Livable Will Require A Lot More Than New Zoning
If affordable housing were simply a question of cost, people would be moving to Omak and other cheap and remote areas of the state. But ...
“She said the move to work from home will not be permanent.”
It's fun to look back, and that's a quote from a Bloomberg Business article written on July 20, 2020 about the bankruptcy of the Neiman ...
Within 3 Years, Apartment Defaults May Outpace Office
That's the conclusion of a Bloomberg Business article citing statistics from the Fed; Trepp, MSCI Real Assets, Fitch, and other companies that track real estate ...
A New Use For Movie Theaters? On Seattle’s Eastside, Active Recreation Replaces Passive
On Seattle's Eastside, less than a mile south of Microsoft's headquarters, a private climbing club is adding a third chamber that will bring its total ...
Pop-Ups and Beer, Bread, and Bicycles Won’t Be Enough To Revitalize Ailing Office Areas
This article quotes people who call for revitalizing cities with ground-floor retail and bringing in craft industries like those making beer, bread, and bicycles. Maybe, ...
When It Comes To Retail, Denser Development Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Urban
I took this photo near downtown Bellevue while trying to cross N.E. 4th Street from the Target store in a multi-story project on the south ...
How Do We Kill Off Bad Retail and Replace It With Housing?
It's not often you see a combination of tenants this close to the bottom. This is a photo from Wheaton Way, an ailing commercial strip ...
In Seattle’s Tech Suburbs, Kroger Will Have a Near-Monopoly in Conventional Supermarkets
The country's two largest supermarket chains want to merge, which would locally combine Safeway, Albertsons, Fred Meyer, and QFC. Kroger would own 26 of the ...
The New “Second Place”
This is a downer of an article, but as I pointed out in a Governing magazine article two years ago, all those people working from ...
Central Portland’s Retail Scene Continues to Crumble
This store is in the Pearl District, one of the country's leading centers of urban revitalization. The neighborhood has thousands of lofts and condos built ...