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Ross Klinger

Executive Vice President | Shareholder | High-Density Development Site Sales Specialist
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T 425.450.1146 ross.klinger@kidder.com
500 108th Avenue NE, Ste 2400
Bellevue, WA 98004
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Ross Klinger is a Bellevue-based executive vice president land sales expert with Kidder Mathews, specializing in high-density development site and commercial land sales throughout Seattle/Bellevue core, downtown Bellevue, Bel-Red, Kirkland, Redmond, Issaquah, Woodinville, South Lake Union, Denny Triangle, Pike Place, First Hill, Pioneer Square, Ballard, Capitol Hill, Snohomish County, and other high-growth urban and suburban infill markets throughout the Puget Sound region. Ross focuses on land sales of all asset types and covered-land opportunities for condominiums, hotel, mixed-use, multifamily, office, retail, storage, podium, garden-style, townhome, and urban infill development.

Ross has listed and sold more than $1 billion in land transaction sales, with deep experience in zoning, entitlement strategy, highest-and-best-use analysis, land assemblages, developer representation, and competitive land sale execution. His land sales and development-site assignments have contributed to many of the region’s most recognizable projects, including Seattle House Twin Towers, 1901 Minor Ave Twin Condominium Towers, Bellevue 1001 Office Towers with Amazon as the tenant, Tower 12 Apartments next to Pike Place Market, Nexus Condominiums in the Denny Triangle, Spire Condominiums Tower with mechanical parking garage, The Jack Office Building in Pioneer Square, citizenM Hotel in Pioneer Square, Voldok II Apartment in Ballard, 15th & Market Polyclinic in Ballard, the Bellevue Galleria, Cascade 1 & 2 Apartments in South Lake Union, 1916 Boren Ave with the Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Leeward Apartments in South Lake Union, the Facebook building on Dexter Ave N, Bellevue Main Street Flats Phase I & II, Bellevue Marriott AC, the Filament Apartment project in downtown Bellevue, Glendale Golf & Country Club Townhome outparcel, Bellevue Park Townhomes and many more high-density projects throughout the region.

Representative Transactions

Ross has listed and sold commercial investment properties and land sales totaling over $1,000,000,000. A brief summary of these transactions follows:

High-Rise Tower Development Sites

$72,000,000 – Denny Triangle Twin-Tower High-Rise Condominium Development Site – 1901 Minor Ave, a Twin-tower 440′ high-rise development site for 953 condominium units in the Denny Triangle submarket of Seattle, WA.

$60,000,000 – Seattle House Apartment Towers – Seattle House Twin-tower 440′ high-rise Apartment site in South Lake Union submarket of Seattle, WA.

$47,000,000 – Full City Block High-Rise Condominium Development Site – Future High-rise Condominium project with 500′ zoning on a full city block in downtown Seattle, WA.

$32,500,000 – The Chromer Condominium Site – 440′ High-rise Condominium tower development site one block from Pike Place Market in Seattle, WA.

$25,000,000 – Denny Triangle Biotech High-Rise Land Sale – 1916 Boren Ave in Seattle, WA with the Seattle Children’s Research Institute as the new tenant.

Joint Venture – Spire Condominiums / 600 Wall Street – Entitled high-rise development site sold to Vanke, now called the Spire Condominiums in Seattle, WA which has 7 levels of mechanical parking.

$17,100,000 – The Emerald Condominiums – 121 Stewart Ave, Condominium Development on only 8,398 sf of land and a cantilever over the Broadacres building, 1 block to Pike Place Market in Seattle, WA.

$16,000,000 – Tower 12 Apartments – Fully entitled 400′ development site at 2015 2nd Avenue near Pike Place Market in Seattle, WA.

$14,950,000 – Nexus Condominiums – 400′ High-rise condominium development site in the Denny Triangle, Seattle, WA.

$11,720,000 – 901 Harrison Street – High-rise apartment development site zoned to 280′ for 290 apartment units in South Lake Union, Seattle, WA.

$10,161,000 – South Lake Union High-Rise Office Site – High-rise office site in South Lake Union, Seattle, WA which is the Facebook Building in the Dexter Corridor of South Lake Union, Seattle, WA.

Multifamily Podium, Garden-Style, and Townhome Development Sites

$21,645,000 – Cascade Apartments 1 & 2 – 477 units of market rate apartments in the Cascade neighborhood of South Lake Union, Seattle, WA.

$21,100,000 – 1001 Broadway / Danforth Apartments – 71,000 SF medical office covered-land play, which is now the Danforth Apartments in First Hill submarket of Seattle, WA.

$18,500,000 – 145-Unit Apartment Building – 7 story apartment building development site in Fremont, Seattle, WA.

$17,865,000 – Snohomish County Townhome Development Site – Snohomish Gardens, a 196 unit townhome development site in Maltby, Snohomish County, WA.

$16,700,000 – Leeward Apartments – 298-unit apartment development site on a full city block in South Lake Union on Dexter Ave N, Seattle, WA.

$13,700,000 – Lakewood Garden-Style Apartment Development Site – 285 unit Garden-style Development site pad site on 10 acres in the Lakewood Town Center.

$10,290,000 – Capitol Hill Apartment Site – Apartment development site for 140 units in Seattle, WA.

$10,100,000 – Voldok II Apartment Development Site – Apartment development site for 164 units on a 7 story building in Ballard, Seattle, WA.

$8,600,000 – True North Apartment Development Site – 264 Apartment units at 801 Dexter Ave N in South Lake Union, Seattle, WA.

$6,300,000 – The Century Apartment Development Site – 264 unit development site on 85′ height-zoned land in Seattle, WA.

$4,625,000 – Glendale Golf & Country Club Townhome Site Outparcel – 15 detached Townhome development site in Bellevue, WA.

$1,700,000 – 800 Front St Issaquah Townhome Development Site – Townhome Development Site sale to DR Horton in downtown Issaquah, WA.

Office, Life Science, Hotel, Storage & Specialty Sales

$16,250,000 – 15th and Market Polyclinic – 279,000 SF Ballard medical office development site with 240,000 SF potential in Seattle, WA.

$13,075,000 – The Jack Office Building – 146,000 SF office development site on the Pioneer Square waterfront in Seattle, WA.

$12,687,320 – South Lake Union Office Development Site – 86,900 SF of land in South Lake Union where Facebook is the tenant, Seattle, WA.

$12,250,000 – Downtown Seattle Self-Storage Facility – 52,000 SF facility sold at a 4.4% cap rate in downtown Seattle, WA.

$11,750,000 – 51 University Office Building – 90,920 SF historic office building on the Seattle waterfront by Pike Place Market.

$8,500,000 – First Hill Medical Office Development Site – 18,760 SF medical office development site in Seattle, WA.

$8,400,000 – South Lake Union Marriott AC Hotel Site – High-rise South Lake Union development site on 9,600 SF of land for a new Marriott AC Hotel with no onsite parking.

$6,300,000 – SODO Owner/User Purchase – Owner/user purchase of an existing building in SODO, Seattle, WA.

$6,000,000 – South Lake Union Biomedical Development Site – 400 Dexter Ave N with the anchor tenant being Bristol Myers Squibb.

$4,535,000 – Pioneer Square citizenM Hotel Development Site – 8,500 SF hotel development site on the Pioneer Square waterfront in Seattle, WA with no onsite parking.

$1,700,000 – West Coast Self-Storage Development Site – Self-storage development site for a mid-rise climate-controlled building in Seattle, WA.

High-Rise & High-Density Development Site Sales Specialist Serving Seattle, Bellevue & King County

Ross provides land brokerage and development site advisory services for high-rise, mid-rise, podium, and mixed-use projects across King County and the Puget Sound region. His work spans the full spectrum of development land transactions, from raw land and covered-land plays to fully entitled high-rise sites, with specialized expertise in zoning analysis, entitlement strategy, land assemblage, and competitive site marketing. Ross serves developers, institutions, and private owners seeking best-execution sales of high-density development sites in Seattle, Bellevue, and surrounding urban and suburban infill markets.

Available Properties

Affiliations & Memberships

Member Commercial Brokers Association (CBA)
Member Washington State Commercial Association of Realtors (WSCAR)

Education

BA in Business, Management Information Systems from Washington State University

Select Client List

  • Alexandria Real Estate
  • Alliance Residential
  • AvalonBay
  • Benaroya Companies
  • BRE Properties, Inc.
  • Chatham Lodging Trust
  • CitizenM Hotels
  • Columbia West Properties, Inc.
  • Concord Pacific
  • Continental Properties
  • Diamond Parking
  • Equity Residential
  • Gerding Edlen
  • Goodman Real Estate
  • Holland Residential
  • Kite Realty
  • Lennar
  • Lionstone Group
  • MacFarlane Partners
  • Mack Urban
  • Martin Selig Real Estate
  • Merrill Gardens
  • Plus Investments
  • Onni
  • Principal Financial
  • PSW Real Estate
  • SRM Development
  • Strickland Real Estate
  • Taco Time
  • Time Equities
  • Toll Brothers
  • Touchstone Corporation
  • Urban Visions
  • Vanke
  • Vulcan
  • Weidner
  • West Coast Self Storage
  • White Peterman
  • Wolff