UPDATE: Top 10 US Submarkets for new apartment building units in the pipeline.

In May we posted an article Top 10 US Cities for new apartment building permits where Seattle came in sixth in new apartment building units permitted. Now a new list is out from Axiometrics with a breakdown by submarket and Seattle’s Downtown/Capitol Hill/Queen Anne submarket lands at number two with almost 4,000 units due to come on line in the near future.

Seattle number 2 in Top 10 most new apartment units in the pipeline

And that’s on top of nearly 6,000 units (3,500 in the last two years) that have already been delivered downtown since 2005. Plus there are several other hot neighborhoods such as Belltown and South Lake Union that Continue reading UPDATE: Top 10 US Submarkets for new apartment building units in the pipeline.

Is Bellevue’s Spring District The Next South Lake Union? Apartment developers are saying yes-

A piece in the Seattle Real Estate BisNow is talking about the new mixed use development that will be starting up around the planned light rail station in the Bel-Red area. The area has now got a fancy new name too: The Spring District. Kevin Wallace, Pres. of Wallace properties compares it to South Lake Union (only with better, ok, less worse traffic if you ask me).

Mixed Use Development in Bellevue's Spring District

Also mentioned that downtown Bellevue’s office space is just a couple big tenants short of being full, full of tech tenants including game developers that is.