The Bellevue Chamber’s PLUSH (Permitting, Land Use Sustainability and Housing) Committee recently submitted the following letter to the City’s Planning Commission regarding the update to the City’s critical areas ordinance. Read for yourself below! Continue Reading
The Bellevue Chamber’s PLUSH (Permitting, Land Use Sustainability and Housing) Committee recently submitted the following letter to the City’s Planning Commission regarding Item 25-438, the Downtown Center Redesignation. The Committee appreciates the Commission’s decision to... Continue Reading
Chamber CEO, Joe Fain, addresses recent findings by ProPublica on Washington's failure to bring new renewable power sources online. Continue Reading
On behalf of the Eastside Housing Roundtable, we recently submitted the following letter to Bellevue’s City Council. Take a look below: Continue Reading
As of last week, filing has been completed for those running in a King County election this fall, including state, county, city, and school board races across the region, of which we will specifically be focusing on the Eastside. Continue Reading
Our PLUSH Committee’s most recent letter to Bellevue’s Planning Commission related to their ongoing work on the Housing and Opportunity Market Affordability (HOMA) initiative. Take a look below! Continue Reading
This past weekend, downtown Redmond opened two new light rail stations, marking yet another expansion of our region’s public transportation system. Electeds and community members alike flocked to the opening weekend festivities, complete with a local high school marching band, a parade procession Continue Reading
The 2025 legislative session came to an end at 6:30 p.m. on April 27. In the final hours of the 2025 session, the legislature passed all three biennial budgets, the bills under the Democrat’s revenue package, and a few final NTIB (necessary to implement the budget) bills through the... Continue Reading
Business coalition leaders respond to legislature’s massive tax package. Continue Reading
Washington is known as a global hub of innovation, and the locally owned companies that make this possible are under attack by proposed taxes that would cost between $13 billion and $17 billion. “The progress made by the state on investments in essential infrastructure, innovation proposals,... Continue Reading
The beginning of the week focused on getting bills passed by the opposite house floor cutoff on Wednesday, April 16th. All bills except those deemed necessary to implement the budget had to pass off the floor of the opposite chamber by 5pm that day or they are considered dead. Legislators worked... Continue Reading
In response to the release of the latest City of Seattle revenue forecast, we joined the Association of Washington Business, Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, and Washington Roundtable in issuing this joint statement: “While there is economic news coming in from every corner of the... Continue Reading
