Seattle Construction & Development Summit
Navigating Costs, Policy Pressures, Tariffs, Conversion Complexities & Evolving Project Delivery Across the Built Environment
Event Ended On: Thursday October 9 2025
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Speakers and Panels
Macro Construction & Development Outlook: Building Through Headwinds
Costs, Labor, Materials & Policy—What’s Shaping Project Feasibility in Seattle
From Blueprint to Skyline: How Builders Are Delivering Projects in a Complex Market
How Teams Are Navigating Permitting Challenges, Conversion Complexities, Code Changes and Evolving Building Methods
Who's Building, What's Breaking Ground: Seattle's Development Pipeline
Top Projects, Active Neighborhoods & the Market Forces Shaping What Gets Built
What You'll Learn:
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.
How You’ll Do More Business: Amid market uncertainty, shifting policies, tariffs and rising costs, project stakeholders are rethinking how to get deals done and buildings delivered. From new zoning opportunities and pipeline activity to evolving construction methods and risk-sharing strategies, this summit brings together top developers, GCs, architects, and city leaders to unpack what’s working—and what’s next.
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 janet.fernandez@bisnow.com no later than seven business days prior to the event.
Venue
Hilton Motif Seattle
1415 5th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101
Ballroom Name/Floor: Emerald Ballroom - 3rd Floor
Parking Information:
Hotel - $28 Hilton Motif parking.
Agenda
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8:00 AM 9:00 AM |
Breakfast & Networking
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9:00 AM 9:05 AM |
Opening Remarks
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9:05 AM 9:50 AM |
From Blueprint to Skyline: How Builders Are Delivering Projects in a Complex Market
How Teams Are Navigating Permitting Challenges, Conversion Complexities, Code Changes and Evolving Building Methods
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9:50 AM 10:10 AM |
Networking Break
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10:10 AM 10:55 AM |
Macro Construction & Development Outlook: Building Through Headwinds
Costs, Labor, Materials & Policy—What’s Shaping Project Feasibility in Seattle
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10:55 AM 11:40 AM |
Who's Building, What's Breaking Ground: Seattle's Development Pipeline
Top Projects, Active Neighborhoods & the Market Forces Shaping What Gets Built
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11:40 AM 12:15 PM |
Closing Networking
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