Randyl Drummer is a Seattle-based senior staff writer at CoStar News. An award-winning journalist, Drummer covers commercial real estate in Washington state, British Columbia, Canada, and beyond.Over four decades, Drummer, a California native, has wr...
Randyl Drummer is a Seattle-based senior staff writer at CoStar News. An award-winning journalist, Drummer covers commercial real estate in Washington state, British Columbia, Canada, and beyond.
Over four decades, Drummer, a California native, has written about the impact of evolving technology, cultural and business trends on real estate and public policy across North America. He was the first digital editor for The Press-Enterprise, the largest daily newspaper and website covering Southern California’s Inland Empire, served as editor of The Business Press, a weekly business journal published by The Press-Enterprise.
Randy helped launch the GlobeSt.com real estate website and served a memorable year in the late 1980s as legislative aide to a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He has won several first-place awards as a reporter and editor in annual competitions sponsored by the National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE) and the Inland Empire chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Randy is a California State University, Fullerton graduate, a news, history and travel junkie and a lifelong L.A. sports fan.
Seattle has joined other U.S. cities that are adding midsize music venues to bulk up entertainment options in districts around sports stadiums and other developments.
A pair of New York developers broke ground on the first phase of a 180-acre master-planned community at the former Hewlett Packard campus in Vancouver, Washington.
King County has acquired an office building near Seattle that opened as the first of several planned mental healthcare clinics for people in crisis to receive urgent walk-in mental healthcare.
A landmark Seattle building sold for 15% of its assessed value as the city's downtown struggles to recover from years of high retail and office vacancies.
Guardian Real Estate Services and national investor PCCP bought the 23-story Ladd Tower in downtown Portland, Oregon, for a more than 20% discount to its last sale price in 2010.
A senior living firm has acquired its second Seattle property as demand for facilities for older Americans is projected to rise as the baby boomer generation enters its retirement years.
Cushman & Wakefield and Marcus & Millichap posted double-digit revenue gains as demand for office space recovers to levels not seen since the onset of the pandemic.
A real estate developer expects to start construction this year on a manufacturing building in Redmond, one of the Seattle area's tightest industrial areas.
A plumbing supply firm preleased a building at Trammell Crow's speculative warehouse project under construction in southern Washington near Portland, Oregon.
Real estate services firm Colliers posted a loss from buying an architecture, design and engineering business, while revenue grew 15% from higher property sales.
This news article was updated on May 7 to replace the top retail deal for the first quarter. The initial winning deal was withdrawn due to an error found in the deal's rent valuation.
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