SeattlebyDesign is thrilled to bring you this week’s event calendar! Your comprehensive guide, take a peek at what’s going on! From this weekend’s Cider Summit Festival at South Lake Union and the Mukilteo Lighthouse Festival, to a Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend, here’s what’s happening around the sound:
On August 26th, The New York Times Real Estate Spotlight explored “What You Get for $785,000,” targeting exceptional residential real estate listings in Maine, Virginia and Seattle. The Seattle highlight? None other than our Fairytale Floating Home!
SeattlebyDesign is thrilled to bring you this week’s event calendar! Your comprehensive guide, take a peek at what’s going on! From this weekend’s Bremerton Blackberry Festival and downtown Seattle’s Bumbershoot, to a Kirkland Wine Walk next week, here’s what’s happening around the sound:
On August 29th, King 5 News reporter Ted Land interviewed Dean Jones, President & CEO of Realogics Sotheby’s International Realty, to get his views on the Chinese stock market correction and whether that signals the end of overseas investment in the Seattle/Bellevue metro area.
On August 19th, Barry Bergner represented SeattlebyDesign at the Northern California Sotheby’s International Realty Networking Event, along with Realogics Sotheby’s International Realty Owners Dean and Stacy Jones and a collection of brokers. Representing the Pacific Northwest region, we were among an estimated 225 attendees at the all-day symposium held at the historic Castlewood Country Club in Pleasanton, CA.
The events kicked off with a warm welcome from Andrew Greenwell, CEO and Principal of Venture Sotheby’s International Realty, who is also the star of BRAVO’s hit realty TV show Million Dollar Listing San Francisco. Greenwell acknowledged the many affiliates who had traveled from as far away as Seattle and Hawaii, noting the importance of referrals and feeder markets. He also introduced Fran Santangelo, VP Global Operations for Sotheby’s International Realty Affiliates, LLC, who flew in from New Jersey, along with Wendy Purvey, Chief Marketing Officer.
Realogics Sotheby’s International Realty and Caliber Home Loans looked at average prices of newer condominiums and compared rents for comparable apartments. They found the total cost of ownership was effectively lower when factoring income tax deductions, not to mention the opportunity for capital appreciation. The research was performed as part of a recent think tank hosted by the Puget Sound Business Journal, which was published as a section called The Manhattanization of Seattle.
Summer is officially here and we can’t think of a better season to check out Maison DeLille, Kirkland’s Premier Wine Lounge, where sipping on exquisite artisan wines by the glass or bottle is perfectly paired with daily happenings for a vibrant atmosphere.
Maison DeLille captures the character of Kirkland, a city teeming with events you won’t want to miss out on.
Here’s whats happening in July:
Kirkland Uncorked! Featuring wine tasting and activities, July 18-20
Classic Car Show, July 27 (with VIP Wine Lounge & Special Guests at Maison DeLille)
“We observe China as the soon-to-be largest economy and a wealth engine with a high propensity for its nationals to seek financial safe harbor and education overseas. Asian demographics are the fastest-growing segment in Washington State with the greatest number stemming from China.”
Other markets covered in the report include The United States, The United Kingdom, and Brazil. View more insights in our Luxury Life report.
The owner of the empty 635 Elliott building on Seattle’s waterfront has applied to do interior work throughout the building. Amazon is the rumored tenant.
The commercial real estate market has been buzzing for months with rumors that Amazon.com would lease office space in three downtown Seattle buildings. Now city permitting records indicate those rumors are true.If they are, Amazon will be taking down around an additional 515,000 square feet of space. This would boost the company’s footprint to around 8 million square feet of space in Seattle when counting what the company owns and leases, what Vulcan Inc. has under construction for Amazon and what Amazon is building or plans to build on its own.
Shorenstein Properties, the owner of the 15-story Blanchard Plaza building at 2201 Sixth Ave., already has received a building permit to do work on floors two through 15 of the two-tower property. That adds up to around 228,000 square feet of space. Listed as the contractor on the permit application is the Seattle office of IA/Interior Architects, which does work for Amazon.
IA Managing Principal Jeff Miller would neither confirm nor deny that the tenant is Amazon. Jean Rainier of Shorenstein referred questions to officials of Urbis Partners, the Seattle commercial real estate company that markets space at Blanchard Plaza for lease. Representatives of Urbis and Amazon did not respond to calls for comment.
A block away, at 2301 Fifth Ave., is a six-story office building called Fifth & Bell, where, according to city records, IA/Interior Architects applied to do alterations on floors one through three. Information on the website of Hines, which owns the building, indicates there are around 100,000 square feet of space on those floors. Hines officials did not respond to calls.
Fifth & Bell and Blanchard Plaza are next to where Amazon is building a three-block campus.
The third building where Amazon has been rumored to be taking space is the empty four-story, 187,000-square-foot 635 Elliott building on Seattle’s waterfront. The owner of that property, Martin Selig Real Estate, earlier this month applied to do tenant improvement work on all four floors. Martin Selig declined to name the tenant. “I never talk about any clients I’m working with,” he said.
Marc Stiles Staff Writer-Puget Sound Business Journal
