News roundup: trends around the Sound

Microsoft's affordable housing fund supports new development and renovation:

• Bellevue hotel to be converted to Affordable Housing
• Affordable Apartments to be built in Kirkland

Transition from old industries to new / life science spaces are hot / mass timber buildings built by a lumber company:

• Dunn Lumber begins construction of life science space on North Lake Union site

Persistence & vision pays: years after demolition of viaduct and historic review challenges, Urban Visions' Pioneer Square / waterfront office building secures construction financing:

• The Jack receives $90M construction loan

SPD answers downtown crime surge:

• Seattle Police flood area around downtown McDonald's, 12th & Jackson

Hell no, they won't go ... back to work:

• Concrete worker's strike continues
• People are going out again, but not to the office

• Microsoft, Expedia announce broad campus reopenings