About a year and a half ago, all eyes in Seattle were on real-estate mogul Al Clise. In June 2007, he announced that he wanted to sell a 13-acre, seven-block swath of commercial property in Denny Triangle. However, by April 2008, the chairman and CEO of Clise Properties took the lots off the market without…

Last April, as the battle raged over whether the NBAs Seattle SuperSonics would stay in town or leave, a former Sonics star and a public-relations executive unveiled a bold new proposal that they believed at the time was a game changer. They wanted to build a sparkling new professional sports and exhibition center along the…

Bruce Asper is hoping the 901 Fifth Avenue Building downtown will be in the sweet spot of Seattles current office space market. Aspers firm, Beverly Hills-based Kennedy Wilson, has spent about $35 million refurbishing the 570,000 square-foot building, including turning the property into a silver LEED-certified green office tower. The upgrades should give the 65-percent…