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Broadway Neighborhood Local Improvement District (LID)

A Local Improvement District (LID) provides a way for property owners to get together to pay for street and alley paving, sanitary sewers, street...

Housing costs have risen beyond the reach of many

Average Seattle incomes aren't keeping up with rising housing costs and home ownership and rental opportunities are moving beyond the reach of wageworkers. That fact...

Port officials say no tax increase expected for $300 million Tacoma project

Your taxes won’t increase to pay for the Port of Tacoma’s expansion. At least that’s what port executive director Tim Farrell and most of its...

Developer scraps $215 million project for former Evergreen Airport

Redevelopment plans for the former Evergreen Airport site in east Vancouver have crashed. Opus Northwest, the project's developer, has backed out of the proposed $215...

County offered to buy 162 units near Sea-Tac Airport

The Port of Seattle has rejected an offer by King County to purchase and preserve 162 apartments in Burien with rents that are affordable...

What Olympia could learn from other renewal projects

Five years ago, downtown Bremerton was a ghost town. Shops and restaurants had left the city’s center when suburban strip malls opened in the...

Port Gardner Wharf moves ahead

With the sun shining on the glistening waters of Port Gardner Bay and the smell of saltwater commingling with the muted cry of seagulls...

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KCHA spearheads successful effort to preserve nine subdized apartment complexes in...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - December 3, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- When a portfolio of nine privately owned Section 8-assisted housing complexes located in five counties scattered across Washington state was offered for sale last spring, the King County Housing Authority spearheaded a collaborative effort to purchase it. The housing authorities of Bremerton, Grays Harbor County, Yakima, and Chelan County and the City of Wenatchee participated in assuring the preservation of a total of 337 homes within the various communities.

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Calmwater Capital Originates $7.6 Million Loan for WSU Student Housing

Calmwater Capital, a leading national direct real estate lender, has provided $7.6 million in senior debt to Nelson Brothers Professional Real Estate, LLC to acquire and upgrade a student housing complex near Washington State University. The 184-bed property, known as College Crest Apartments, is located at 1555 NE Merman Drive in Pullman, Washington.