What You’ll Learn:

• Gain a macro-level understanding of the key economic, regulatory, tariff and labor forces shaping construction and development feasibility in Seattle, and how developers and GCs are adapting their strategies in 2025.
• Hear from the teams behind Seattle’s most active projects as they share where development is still viable, which neighborhoods are attracting investment, and how zoning and policy shifts are influencing the pipeline.
• Explore how project teams are managing delays, cost pressures, and code changes by rethinking preconstruction, embracing evolving delivery methods like prefab and mass timber, and reworking timelines to meet today’s construction realities.
• Understand how shifting capital dynamics, escalating hard costs, and city permitting challenges are reshaping what gets built, when, and by whom.
• Learn how developers, contractors, and consultants are collaborating to de-risk construction, implement more resilient delivery models, and respond to the increasingly complex Seattle development landscape.