I have gone international! So excited to be featured on @cgtnamerica with Full Frame host Mike Walter. We had a great urban design conversation about affordable housing, transportation, and livable communities for all families. #powerofdesignthinking https://t.co/bCN9JbcSka

Join us as we discuss a pilot to help homeowners add housing while reducing risk & preventing displacement. We will examine how cities can play an active role in supporting homeowners, sharing development risk, & creating pathways to community stability. https://t.co/MhfjQIQ4BV

BREAKING: Socialist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is directing the Seattle Police Department to "investigate, verify and document ICE activity"

We have a lot of work ahead and Mayor Wilson is off to a great start.

Powerful keynote presentation at the MLK Prayer Breakfast today. I was proud to see my father in architecture, Donald I King receive the 2026 Mountaintop award for business. I am blessed to be part of the community he has built the last fourty years, the Nehemiah Initiative, NAAM

HOLIDAY IN THE PARK: Please come see my beautiful wife Kate Dean sing with the Brilliance Interfaith Gospel Choir at Volunteer Park TONIGHT December 4th from 6:30-7pm. There will be live music, treats, and festivities from 6-8pm to warm your spirit and kickoff the holiday season!

Before Thanksgiving, I joined Mark & Asha Washington at the Frye Art Museum for a Salon Soirée featuring artist HOLLIS. It was a wonderful evening of food, drinks, art, and entertainment. I highly recommend a visit if you have not been or if it has been a while.

Kate and I were blessed to the David Byrne ‘Who is the Sky’ performance Tuesday night. It was an amazing exhibition of grace, beauty, artistry, multigenerational and ethnic collaboration. Such a man of incredible vision and talent. Mind blowing. Paramount Theater-perfect venue.

I was honored to be a juror for the NAIOP 2025 Night of the Stars where last Friday we announced an incredible slate of winners. It was a great room of industry innovators and collaborators investing in growth and prosperity in the Northwest. https://t.co/B2vByG4nc1

Proud of my wife, Kate Dean, who sang with her friend Natasha and 25 others in the Brilliance Interfaith Gospel Choir yesterday at St Therese Church in the heart of our the Central District, which we now call home. The performance was amazing and at one point moved me to tears.

I was honored to take part in One Ocean Week Seattle, experience the beauty and awe of the 111 year old Norwegian tall ship, the Stratsraad Lehmkuhr while it was docked at Pier 66, and host two panel discussions on port cities as part of our Working Waterfront Day last week.

The Port of Seattle, City of Seattle, Whatcom Working Waterfront Coalition, and Greater Seattle Partners are hosting a WORKING WATERFRONT DAY on Thurs, Oct. 23. Events are at the Bell Harbor Conference Center. Registration is FREE! Register at https://t.co/zOhVvNLAPR

I was honored to present at the 18th Federal Congress on the National Urban Development Policy in Rostock, Germany, earlier this month. I delivered a TED-talk-style presentation on the transformative work happening in Seattle and our region. https://t.co/xVtSMa9WYI

So proud of my son Milo who officially starts his first day of college at Western Washington University today. Love you, Milo- you will do well…!

I presented the Citywide Collaborative Impact award to Barry Johnson at the Arte Noir Gala last night at Seattle Center. Vivian Phillips & Jazmyn Scott were amazing. They have accomplished in three years what it has taken other not-for-profits decades to build.

Germany Day5: Morning walking tour of central Berlin, getting to know the city’s history, incl. post-war reconstruction, and post-1990 development after the Berlin Wall came down. Ended the day with a beautiful riverboat tour & discussion of German history, governance, & culture

Germany-Day4: A quiet day of transition. Tour of university campus in Rostock, closing session at the conference, and then two hour train back to Berlin and low key evening at the hotel.

Germany Day3: First full day of the German Federal Congress on Urban Development Policy. I was one of the keynote speakers and shared with an audience of 1000 Germans reflections on the Seattle Waterfront transformation, transit oriented development, and equitable development.

Germany-Day2: Made the trip to Rostock, two hours north of Berlin by train. Met up with GIZ host Tina Silbernagl & traveled to the opening reception of the German Federal Congress on Urban Development Policy with Philipp, Tina, & 2 new colleagues from the South African government

Germany-Day1: I arrived in Berlin today after 13 hours of travel. I had an evening walk along the Spree riverfront, took photos of the Reichstag Building, and got to watch an incredible ‘People and Parliament’ film and light show. I am looking forward to the days ahead.

Boston Day4: Visited the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway on our last day before returning home. The resulting urban green landscape from this $8 billion dollar highway lid project (the ‘Big Dig’) is pretty impressive. Check out- https://t.co/cm6zGn8DOx