Blanton Turner – Multi-Family 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!
New market? No problem. At Blanton Turner, Opportunity Zone translates to a track record of, well, record-breaking lease-ups! 7 in the last 2 years.
Multi-family Mavens
Big, small, affordable, market-rate, market leading, office conversion or mixed-use, we dig multi-family management. A few things to know about our approach:
LEASE-UPS LIGHT UP
OUR WORLD
Our nimble and creative team is proven in all market conditions – including creating demand for Class A properties in emerging + Opportunity Zone areas.
HAVE AN AFFORDABLE
COMPONENT? WE CAN HELP.
Our in-house expert staff digs into the details of mixed-income properties, managing compliance across 17 properties (and counting).
ONE-OF-A-KIND? WE HAVE
MAD PUZZLE SOLVING SKILLS.
We like to do things that other companies can’t or won’t do. Have a complex, mixed-use or simply unusual property? Let’s create a success story together.
BT residents are happy.
Our average resident
satisfaction score is 92%.
Industry average is 82%.
Rook Apartments
TACOMA, WA
rookapartments.com
Pre-development consulting, lease-up and ongoing management. 368-unit midrise Opportunity Zone development, completed in 2024. Class A property lease-up in a maturing market. Introduced new asset type and rent level for Tacoma.
Client: Fawcett Avenue Owner LLC
Arrivé
DOWNTOWN SEATTLE, WA
arriveseattle.com
Pre-development consulting, lease-up and ongoing management. High-rise, mixed-use property with 344-units of multifamily, 140-key award winning Sound Hotel, a Tapestry Collection destination, ground-floor retail. Leveraged hotel amenities and services to compete with competitors, achieved 95% occupancy within 10-months.
Client: Seattle Tower LLC
The Cobb
Downtown Seattle, WA
cobbapartments.com
Office conversion to mixed-use high-end Manhattan-style residential conversion of a historic 1910 property. Ongoing management of this unique, 91-unit asset and its repurposed commercial features (ex. bank vault as a fitness center).
Client: University of Washington
Clark
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
clarkslu.com
Pre-development consulting, lease-up and ongoing management. 75-unit studio/efficiency midrise property completed in 2020. Maintains 95% occupancy in a high turnover neighborhood.
Client: 408 Aurora LLC
Cedar Hills
Portland, OR
cedarhillspdx.com
Took over management and the ongoing renovation of this 184-unit garden-style community built in the 1970s. Repositioned to take advantage of under-met market demand and reintroduced with a new brand, story and a more current look and feel. Renovation included new finishes inside and out. Blanton Turner increased in-place rents by 50% within one year.
Client: NSW Properties
Trillium Apartments
Springfield, OR
trilliumspringfield.com
Townhome rental community with 98 units. Stabilized property at takeover and took a new look at the market with a fresh perspective. Repositioned the property in the eyes of the market and raised rents over $200/unit/month on turnover, ultimately increasing property value by $4 million when fully implemented. Maintained 95% occupancy through this process.
Client: McKee Properties
Kerf
Bellingham, WA
kerfbellingham.com
Pre-development consulting, lease-up and ongoing management. 196-unit heavy timber Opportunity Zone development, completed in 2024. Class A property lease-up in an unsophisticated, outlying market. Introduced new asset type and rent level with strong absorption.
Client: Bellingham QOZ Project LLC
Ellen Browning Building
Portland, OR
ellenbrowningbuilding.com
Managed as a family asset and then led conversion from high-end friends and family co-op to market leading mixed-use rental community. 10 very large apartments within Portland’s stylish Division District.
Client: McCabe Family
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 many of our clients know us for our multi-family and mixed-use talents, they may not realize that we manage repositioning and capital projects, purpose-built facilities, commercial buildings and student housing communities too!
COMMERCIAL &
FACILITY MANAGEMENT
With a 1.3 million sq/ft. portfolio of commercial office, retail and unusual properties (a little basketball anyone?), we create can’t-live-without experiences for tenants and owners – from Amazon to the Seattle Storm.
STUDENT HOUSING
ST
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.
REPOSITIONING +
CAPITAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT
From assets we’ve managed for years, to newly purchased buildings needing makeovers, we’re here to help bring your property back to the market with a fresh look and a defined target audience.
Have a commercial building, facility, project in need of love, or are you thinking about going back to school in student housing? 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
