Some cities like Seattle have significant retail vacancy rates while in other places those rates are fairly low. SB 6026 seeks to put housing production ahead of requirements to add spaces like these.

A new lawsuit against the Northwest ICE detention center in Tacoma underscores the abusive conditions detainees face, which has also been alleged in numerous investigative reports. Meanwhile, some ...

On Tuesday, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson pledged to attack affordability on four different fronts: housing, childcare, food, and small business opportunities. It was her first State of the City speech ...

Intended to reduce barriers that are preventing lower-density commercial buildings getting redeveloped into housing, SB 6026 would target mandates for storefronts in new housing projects. (Ryan Packer ...

Oudburg, a shared street in Ghent, Belgium. Building similar streets is now a possibility for Washington cities following a state law change. (Mark Ostrow) A shared street, as defined by SB 5595, has ...

Through May and June, Seattle’s City Council will be considering a comprehensive rezoning of the city’s industrial lands. The changes are a long time coming, with many fits and starts. In following ...

Interbay is a collision of changing urban landscapes, expensive deteriorating infrastructure, and confused layers of authority. As the smaller of Seattle’s two industrial centers, Interbay is ground ...

One of the more, ummm, interesting complaints about new buildings is that they are “too boxy”–as if their form is somehow foreign and boxy buildings are nonexistent in the history of the city. I find ...

Development in Roosevelt and the U District from Green Lake. (Photo by Shaun Kuo) Recently, a flurry of studies about the effects of new housing supply has emerged. They rebuff skeptics, who argue ...

The new Manito Six apartments in Spokane will provide badly needed infill housing on a small lot. But in Seattle, the deck is stacked against buildings like this. (Matt Hutchins) The stacked flat, a ...

South King County has led Metro's ridership recovery, with routes in places like Kent approaching their pre-pandemic levels. (King County Metro) King County Metro continues to see steady ridership ...

Despite small increases to Seattle's civilianized CARE Department, police continue to dominate the City's response to public safety, drugs, and homelessness, getting a hundredfold more funding than ...