Seattle Office Market Outlook

Tue Aug 12, 2025

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Seattle Office Market Outlook

Name: Seattle Office Market Outlook
Start: 2025-08-12T08:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-08-12T11:15:00-07:00

Adapting to the New Normal: Repurposing Assets, Modern Workspaces, Strategic Upgrades, Class A Projects, Flexible Layouts and Flight to Quality

Tuesday August 12 2025 @ 8:00 AM PDT

$119.00

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Wende Miller

Wende Miller is a Managing Director for Talon Private Capital (TPC). Wende joined TPC in 2012. During her time at TPC, Wende has overseen asset management and leasing for TPC’s portfolio, including partner properties. She has completed over 4.5 million square feet of new, pre-leased, and renewal leases while overseeing property management, project management and brokerage teams in multiple markets. Wende has spent the majority of her 27 year real estate career as a broker specializing is significant transactions for owners, major law firms, corporations, financial institutions and professional and technical firms in the Puget Sound Region. She has implemented much of what she learned as a broker into her daily interactions now as an owner, while leaning on her vast industry relationships to ensure the most advantageous results for TPC properties, their investors and partners. Wende attended Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina where she was a member of the cross country and track teams. Wende is a member and has been actively involved in several industry related organizations such as Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW), CoreNet, National Association for Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP) and Downtown Seattle Association (DSA) and was recently recognized as a Power Woman in Commercial Real Estate by Bisnow. She is also committed to giving back to her community having served as a board member for the Hope Heart Institute, Bishop Blanchet Boosters, Camp Fire USA and a member of the Jubilee Women’s Center Steering Committee where they were successful in raising $5 million in a capital campaign. Additionally, Wende has enjoyed coaching track & field, basketball and soccer for her children’s teams over the years but is now adjusting to the empty nest life since the last of her five children has gone to college.

Talon Private Capital

Managing Director

Wende Miller

Managing Director, Talon Private Capital

Patrick Gilligan

Senior EVP, Lincoln Property Company

Mary Fialko

Director, Real Estate Development, Skanska

Chris Angus

SVP, Development and Design, Unico Properties

Alexandra Brauff

Corporate Real Estate Manager, Workplace Solutions, Starbucks

Kara Schmidt

Studio Director, Mancini Duffy

Moderator

Jim McCracken

VP, MAC Accounts, Emerald Blue

What You'll Learn:

What You’ll Learn:

Understand how the Seattle office market is adjusting to the increase in vacancy rates, which rose to 31.2%, and the implications for leasing and tenant demand.
Discover the strategies developers are using to revitalize office assets through upgrades, repositioning, and flight-to-quality trends.
Gain insights into how asset management practices are adapting to address the challenges and opportunities in the current office market.
Explore the latest design trends, amenities, and flexible layouts shaping the future of office environments.
Learn what tenants are seeking in today’s office market, including health-conscious features, flexibility, and advanced technologies.
Dive into the development and delivery strategies being used to repurpose office spaces and meet the evolving needs of modern tenants.
Explore the shifting dynamics in Seattle’s office market and how these changes are shaping the city’s future office space landscape.

How You’ll Do More Business: Despite the high vacancy rates in Seattle’s office market, owners and developers are getting creative with repurposing existing assets and upgrading buildings, while major companies like Netflix are entering the downtown office market. Join us at our annual office event as we dive into flight-to-quality trends, strategic upgrades, delivery, amenities, modern workspaces, and what tenants are looking for in their office spaces.

Who You’ll Meet During Networking: Owners, developers, investors, brokers, city and government officials, business consultants, architects, engineers, lawyers, accountants, and bankers.

Why You Should Attend This Session: Bisnow events bring together the biggest power players in the industry to help you identify opportunities, build your network, and expand your business. With the largest audience of commercial real estate professionals in the world, no one knows how to help your business more than we do.

For questions, recommendations, comments, or press inquiries please email our event producer, Bora Altunay, at bora.altunay@bisnow.com. To request disability-related accommodations, please contact rachel.sundin@bisnow.com no later than seven business days prior to the event

Venue

Venue to be Announced: Downtown Seattle, WA

Agenda

Time	Activity
8:00 AM 9:00 AM	Breakfast & Networking
9:00 AM 9:45 AM	The Experience-Driven Office: What’s Next? How Today’s Most Forward-Thinking Offices Foster Collaboration, Productivity, and Well-Being
9:45 AM 10:00 AM	Networking Break
10:00 AM 10:45 AM	Revitalizing Office Assets: Development, Delivery, and Repurposing Strategies From Strategic Upgrades and Repositioning to Flight-to-Quality Trends and Asset Management Strategies
10:45 AM 11:15 AM	Closing Networking

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