Fourteen percent vacancy rate! Ninth biggest biotech market! Fastest growing! We see these headlines every day, and data is important to...

In A/E/C marketing, your readers are generally in a hurry—much like you are! When reading a proposal, a blog, a newsletter, or a website,...

I hear it a lot. People see my consultant title and ask the question: "What do you actually do, specifically?" The answer can be a little...

Do you have an hour a day to dig up Seattle-area A/E/C/RE news, including what's not in the papers? Let's be honest...probably not! My...

Remember when 300 units was a big multifamily infill project, and Harbor Steps' 759 was the local record? When grander visions weren't...

Will our region build a second major commercial airport, on a Sea-Tac scale? The State-appointed Commercial Aviation Coordinating...

In the A/E/C/RE world, we don't always WANT to use words consistently. Vagueness can help our point, we might not have enough data, and...

Garner smiled, a little giddy, his aches forgotten. Finally in space. Weightless. An implied promise from a lifetime of movies now...

Wouldn't it be convenient if the post-Covid world arrived in a neat package, with a clear "new normal"? Say around March 1? Employers...

Supermarkets. Car dealerships. Warehouses. Maker spaces. Schools. Churches. What was typically a low building with surface parking is...

An A/E/C/RE company can thrive on relationships, technical performance, and market intuition rather than data—maybe, for a while, with...

Sometimes a new building "wants" storefront retail—when it's on a top retail street for example. Other times, not really! Quiet side...

This is a small post about empowerment – and how we define, and can disagree about defining, our neighborhoods. Neighborhood names and...

One of these years, Tacoma is going to emerge as a bigger office and innovation center. I used to think this would happen because of...

Lidding I-5 through the Downtown core would be phenomenal—placemaking, addressing our dearth of park space, improving walkability,...

It's easy to spout a fact from news article. "Seattle was the fastest-growing city in the last decade," for example. But how often do we...

In A/E/C/RE, population numbers matter. We rely on growth for much of our work. And births influence key sectors in very specific ways....

Ever make a giant spreadsheet just because you're curious about something? Well, I did. And you clicked, so here goes! From 54 to 21 My...

I'm calling it. Enough shoes have dropped. A substantial percentage of office jobs will be work-from-home (WFH) forever. Obviously this...