Who buys
a SODO
building
at $4.5M
SODO, Seattle · asking $288 a foot
One buyer, four buildings in this exact band, four different entity names. Grouping every sale by the taxpayer mailing address instead of the entity name exposed it, and the same move put a person behind 108 of the 254.
Who could own it, who already buys it, and who has to buy something soon.
Occupiers who could own
Verified businesses in SODO, Georgetown, South Park and the Duwamish whose space, yard and balance sheet fit a 15,600 SF building. 21 have both a phone and an email on file.
Trades in the band
Every 10,000 to 20,000 SF industrial sale in King, Pierce and Snohomish, September 2021 to August 2026. 108 of the buying LLCs now trace to a real person, up from 45 in the first cut.
Sellers with exchange money
Owners who sold in this band since September 2025 and may be in a 1031 exchange. 10 are still inside the 180-day window with $50.6M to place, and 2 are still picking targets. The other 18 sold earlier and may be uncommitted.
311 leads, placed at block level.
| SODO | 11 | 14 | 2 |
| Georgetown | 9 | 12 | 3 |
| South Park | 4 | 6 | · |
| Duwamish | 5 | 9 | 1 |
| Rest of the three counties | |||
| King (outside the corridor) | · | 81 | 10 |
| Pierce | · | 81 | 8 |
| Snohomish | · | 51 | 4 |
| Total | 29 | 254 | 28 |
Toggle a lane to filter; click a cluster to open it or a row to fly there. Records sit at the nearest intersection, never on a building; the star marks the subject at area level. Imagery © Mapbox © Maxar.
Nine named buyers behind the six closest matches, and the strongest of the rest.
| Buyer and who decides | Tier | Type | In band | Latest buy | SF | Price | $/SF | On file |
| Quillback Industrial PartnersColin Ashdown, managing partner | Closest | Investor | 4 | South ParkFeb 2025 | 12,400 | $3.41M | $275 | CellEmailUnpublished |
| Thornbury Investment Co.Marian Thornbury, president | Closest | Investor | 2 | GeorgetownSep 2025 | 15,100 | $4.38M | $290 | CellEmailOffice |
| Okada Marine SupplyGrant Okada, owner | Closest | Owner-user | 1 | SODOAug 2024 | 15,900 | $4.93M | $310 | Direct dialEmail |
| Lindqvist Family PartnersKarin Lindqvist, general partner | Closest | Investor | 1 | DuwamishNov 2025 | 16,800 | $4.79M | $285 | CellEmail |
| Pacheco Equipment RentalRamon Pacheco, owner | Closest | Owner-user | 1 | South ParkMay 2026 | 13,900 | $3.96M | $285 | CellEmailOffice |
| Tessaro HoldingsPaul Tessaro, principal | Strong | Investor | 3 | BallardFeb 2026 | 12,900 | $4.30M | $333 | Main lineWarm intro |
| Dufresne LogisticsAnne Dufresne, CEO | Strong | Owner-user | 1 | TukwilaJun 2025 | 19,200 | $4.99M | $260 | Direct dialEmail |
| Reinholt PartnersMark Reinholt, managing member | Strong | Investor | 1 | RentonOct 2024 | 14,300 | $3.86M | $270 | CellEmail |
| Whitcombe RoofingDana Whitcombe, owner | Strong | Owner-user | 1 | AuburnMar 2025 | 17,400 | $3.83M | $220 | Direct dialEmailOffice |
Hover a row for every building, entity and how the person was found. Subject asks $288 a foot. The full call sheet carries all 108 named buyers.
- Group by mailing address.Every sale is keyed to where the tax bill goes, not the entity name, so one owner's LLCs fall into one group.
- Read the filings.State officer lists and deed signers put a person on the group.
- Find three deciders.Leadership pages, license files and trade press, each with its source.
254 trades in five years, 41 to 48 a year from 2023 to 2025.
Snohomish is the thin county. It does not publish buyer names in bulk, so 31 of its 51 sales show a verified trade with no recoverable buyer until a public records request comes back.
41 to 48 trades a year from 2023 through 2025. 2026 is running at 33 a year through August, slower but live.
The price cut closed the gap from $41 a foot to $12. Lead with that to anyone who toured both and passed. The listing has been out fifteen months; if that produced tours without offers, a longer list helps at the margin and price is still doing most of the work.
Not buyers, but worth a call. A 25-person millwork shop is moving into a building its owner bought, leaving 16,300 SF about to open. A lumber yard has moved its front door and is not marketing the old site. A 22,500 SF building has sat openly vacant for two years.
Red arc: days 0 to 45, when an exchange must name its targets. Blue arc: day 45 to 180, when it must close. Sand markers are inside 45 days; the $ marker is Halsey Lane Partners.
28 sellers, $141.8M sold. $50.6M of it is still on a 1031 clock.
A 1031 buyer has 45 days from closing to name targets and 180 to close on one. These are the only names in the package working against a clock. Each marker is a seller placed by days since its sale; hover for the detail.
Halsey Lane Partners sold an East Valley building to a public agency in April for $9.1M against a $6.6M basis thirty months earlier. Day 136 of 180; it closes by Oct 11, 2026.
From every license in the corridor to six calls.
The old 10 to 20K SF size band would have excluded 81% of the 721, which is why the search starts from business licenses rather than the assessor.
The two strongest signals, an out-of-area landlord and a recent building sale, are also what a corporate branch looks like. Every rejection keeps its evidence.
The assessor names one business per parcel; joining the state contractor registry by street address found the rest. Best find: a 31-person electrical contractor whose building sold in September 2024, with the new owner's remodel permit already issued.
Leased yard is an existential risk in towing; operators get pushed out when industrial land redevelops, so they buy when they can. The 12,200 SF yard and industrial zoning suit impound. Decided at the Burien head office.
23,400 SF today with 1,600 SF of yard. Twelve thousand feet of yard is the pitch for a firm staging roll-off dumpsters and decontamination trailers. Locally owned, nobody above them.
In 12,900 SF now, so 15,600 is a natural next step in the same corridor. Their landlord just changed hands, which opens the lease-or-buy conversation. Capacity is the question, not fit.
The strongest balance sheet of the six and a true lateral, 15,750 SF against 15,600. Moving a plating line needs a county discharge authorization, so lead with what the seller would contribute toward it.
Both already own. Call them as second-building buyers or as sellers, not as relocating tenants. One just opened a two-acre yard across the river.
Three names in each lane, and who decides at each.
Call first. Leased yards are the biggest risk in towing, and the 12,200 SF fenced yard with industrial zoning suits impound. Decided at the Burien head office.
In 23,400 SF with only 1,600 SF of yard. The pitch is the yard: room to stage dumpsters and decontamination trailers. Locally owned.
Its landlord just changed hands, which opens the lease-or-buy conversation. 15,600 SF is the natural next step in the same corridor.
The serial buyer the mailing-address match surfaced. Its managing partner ran Seattle acquisitions for a national industrial REIT.
President of the family firm and managing partner of the industrial arm that bought in Georgetown. Formed a new Kent acquisition entity in September 2024.
All three under $4.5M, all tenanted. The brokerage that sold it one of them is the warm route in, and it reaches a second buyer too.
Owner-user that sold its Fife shop on Aug 6, 2026 for $3.72M. Still choosing what to buy, and a building it can occupy is the obvious pitch.
Sold a tenanted Georgetown building for $4.85M, two miles south of the subject. Six days left to name targets, so this call goes out first.
$9.1M from a public agency against a $6.6M basis. Targets were named in May; one call learns whether any has fallen through.
Two gaps, both fixable. Officer lists for a few LLCs still need a check against state filings. Snohomish buyer names need one signed public records form.