Blanton Turner – Commercial Properties
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We’re Blanton Turner, a people-focused property management company. We’re relationship builders, communicators and connectors. We like other people! That’s our superpower.
At BT, A Challenge
Is An Opportunity.
What we do is manage multi-family, office, retail, mixed-use, and student housing properties in addition to some unusual and complex assets that can be a head-scratcher for other firms.
What we don’t do is approach properties with a one-size-fits-all template. Buildings are like people after all – each with their own personality, challenges, objectives and opportunities.
Our Strategies Deliver
A Better Bottom Line.
Every building deserves a fresh and creative approach. We craft a custom strategy for each property we manage, tailored to owner objectives and targeted to maximize value. Onsite, we leverage technology to take care of process-driven tasks, so our team can do what they do best: create places where people want to be.
We achieve higher rents, higher retention and ultimately higher property values. Put simply, we deliver a better bottom line.
Sound interesting? Keep reading!
BT’s Commercial Portfolio enjoys 85% occupancy with assets ranging from grocery store chains to multi-tenant retail, from facilities management for professional sports organizations to early childcare education centers, and from Class A office to ground floor retail/mixed use.
We Create Experiences that Tenants and Owners From Amazon to the Seattle Storm Can’t Live Without.
Commercial properties have been stealing the media spotlight recently, and not necessarily for happy reasons. At Blanton Turner, we’re 100% focused on creating success stories, not sad stories for our commercial property owners. We start by spending real time understanding what our owners want. What are their goals? What’s important to them? What kind of environment and experiences do they want to create for their tenants? For themselves?
We then take that information back to our super-secret strategy making computer. Joking. With an understanding of our clients’ vision we create a plan and then we get to work.
Commissioning, Repositioning and Capital Project Management Too.
Sometimes we help our clients by commissioning new buildings, ensuring that every detail is considered. And sometimes we dig into properties where the details could, shall we say, use a bit of detailing! From assets we’ve managed for years, to newly purchased value-add acquisitions needing makeovers, we’re pros at repositioning and efficient capital project management.
Happy Tenants,
Happy Owners.
Let us show you why companies like Amazon, evo, Brooks Running and the Seattle Storm are happy at work each day. And why the asset owners are even happier.
BT managed to keep commercial spaces open with every-day business flowing in the grocery store and food court during Uwajimaya's total renovation of their flagship store in Seattle’s International District.
9th & Thomas, South Lake Union, Seattle
9thandthomas.com
156,788 SF Office | 10,867 SF Retail | 2,757 SF Residential
Building commissioning and ongoing management of this Class A office with ground floor retail and community engagement space “The Living Room,” as well as a single residential penthouse for the building owner. Completed in 2018. Amazon is the office tenant. The Living Room was designed as a hub for the SLU community and is programmed with a constant flow of events and activities: arts, markets, live music, pop-ups, food and more.
Client: 234 9th LLC
Metropole, Pioneer Square, Seattle
metropoleseattle.org
22,143 SF office and community space
Building commissioning and ongoing management. National Register Historic District, built in 1892, significantly damaged by fire in 2007. Purchased in 2019 and renovated to LEED Platinum standards in 2025, providing below-market office and community space for non-profit organizations in the area with a focus on organizations led by, and serving communities of color. Includes early learning center, event and meeting spaces, private offices, interpretative center. Significant art collection.
Client: Satterberg Foundation
Uwajimaya, International District, Seattle
uwajimaya.com
66,334 SF grocery store, bistros, retail, food court and bank
Ongoing management of the flagship property, family offices and four additional stores. Flagship is an Asian grocery store and community center including an Asian Food and Gift Market, retail shops, an 11-eatery Food Hall, a bank and a Japanese bookstore, family-owned since 1928. Supported tenants to keep business flowing during the store's 2020 major renovation. BT principals have managed the assets since prior to the founding of Blanton Turner.
Client: Moriguchi Family
BECU Storm Center for Basketball Performance, Interbay, Seattle
storm.wnba.com/center
50,000 SF practice facility for Seattle’s WNBA team, The Seattle Storm.
Building opening, commissioning and ongoing management of this LEED Gold, high-tech, secure sports facility with team management / ownership offices. Extensive athlete training resources provided on-site.
Client: Force 10 Hoops, LLC
CornerStone, Wallingford, Seattle
evolutionprojects.com/cornerstone
121,000 SF office and retail
Building commissioning and ongoing management. Newest part of Evolution Projects campus vision centered on outdoor lifestyle and culture, expanding on the Evo flagship store. Living Building Pilot Project. Corporate HQ for Brooks (running company). Retail includes Black Diamond climbing company. Bike and locker rooms for 113 bikes. Opened in 2024.
Greenfire Campus, Ballard, Seattle
greenfirecampus.com
12,166 SF office, 4,348 SF retail, 18 units of residential (15,495 SF)
Predevelopment consulting, building commissioning and ongoing management of this mixed-use development which was the most sustainable small-scale mixed-use urban-infill project in the country when it was introduced. Built to be a case study to show the possibilities. Sustainable features include rainwater capture system, on-site agriculture, green roofs, solar, community kitchen. Opened in 2013.
Client: Wilburforce Foundation
With several hundred energized employees, we’ve chosen to stay small enough to deliver personalized service, but we’re big enough to bring the bench strength if we need to!
Where Do We Make
Magic Happen?
Today and In the Future.
We’ve always been PNW People. Washington and Oregon have been our stomping ground since the founding of Blanton Turner in 2011. But as our clients explore opportunities in other states, we’re finding ourselves trying on new monikers: Californians, Arizonans, Coloradans and other exciting new titles. After all, fun people deserve fun titles, no?
Blanton Turner’s managed
properties today represent
a portfolio of over
$3.2 billion.
Multi-family, Student Housing, Commercial and Unusual Properties Too.
While a number of our clients know us for our commercial management talents, they may not realize that we manage student housing, mixed-use buildings and multi-family communities too!
MULTI-FAMILY
Big, small, affordable, market-rate, market leading, office conversion or mixed-use, we dig multi-family management. Have a lease-up? An Opportunity Zone project? A development with MFTE or MHA components? We love it all. Give us a call!
STUDENT HOUSING
From grad student housing to suites geared to new college kids and their nervous parents, we’ve managed the rainbow of student housing. We’ve had our higher education, you might say.
Learn more.
Have a student housing community, a project in need of love, or are you thinking about diving into the rewards of multi-family madness? Give us a call. We’d love to help.
Let’s Create Value Together.
We’re looking forward to building a partnership with you. Let’s talk!
Barry Blanton
CPM, CRE | Chief Problem Solver
(206) 321-8770
bblanton@blantonturner.com
Heidi Turner
CPM | Chief Of Intangible Assets
(206) 963-2679
hturner@blantonturner.com
