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Downtown Seattle's taxable retail sales nearly match the retail earnings of the entire city of Tacoma, as retailers find added opportunities to capture holiday shoppers, according to a Numerator survey.

Consequently, high-quality retail centers possessing a significant degree of credit tenancy with strong tenant sales, such as the Dunes in Monterey Bay, are pushing cap rates into the 4.50% to 5.25% range.

Matthew Whelan, SVP of AvalonBay Communities, said at the IDA session that the company plans to break ground on the project in March 2019.

More tracts, pads and outparcels are in the works for a power center, the Shops at Broad, in this rapidly growing city of Mansfield that is part of the DFW metro area.

Even though underwriting is still strict, there are also alternative loan sources.

Micro units have attained success in both bull and bear markets, and attention from private investors and large institutions throughout the Puget Sound region as efficiency units go mainstream.

Stephanie Anderson, national sales director of Housing and HealthCare Capital, speaker at this week's RealShare Healthcare, talks to GlobeSt.com about the government, private pay sector and more top trends in healthcare real estate.

Two years of anticipated gridlock ease fears that political or economic policy changes will derail business expansion plans, setting the stage for further job creation and modest gross GDP growth, says Transwestern.