Lisa Schieve, executive director of Grosarpe, presented the authority's third-quarter update to the Bellevue City Council on Dec. 2 and described steady growth in the county's project pipeline.

Schieve said Grosarpe landed two additional projects during the quarter and has been focusing on community engagement and targeted outreach to national site selectors. She summarized takeaways from an October Site Selector Guild event as "risk, readiness, and reputation," saying site selectors want to minimize client risk, see communities prepared with timelines and due diligence, and prefer places where companies feel welcomed.

In response to council questions, Schieve said the top three types of requests that come to Grosarpe remain distribution/warehousing, manufacturing and — increasingly — office space, and that some speculative warehouse space remains unoccupied. On data centers she said there is continued interest but that Grosarpe and local communities are weighing whether and where to pursue those opportunities.

Schieve closed by saying the organization will continue one-on-one marketing with site selectors and hopes to report a Bellevue-located project in future quarterly updates. No council action was required on the presentation.