Oh, life before 2020. Back then people used to work in communal offices with kombucha on tap, happy to hot desk next to—and sometimes even live with—strangers. We all know what happened next: WeWork, the pioneers of coworking, teetered on the edge of bankruptcy. Then Covid ushered in the work-from-home era.
So what’s a commercial real estate developer to do with a brand-spanking-new 36-story project? If you’re Seattle’s Martin Selig Real Estate, you pull off a pivot to rule all pivots. The gleaming building at 255 Lenora Street in Belltown was originally intended to house nine floors of communal WeWork offices and 23 floors of the company’s WeLive co-housing offshoot. That all crashed when
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