Katie Betz brings 20 years of commercial property management, project management and leadership experience to her role as General Manager at URG. Currently, Katie leads the property management team responsible for URG’s South Lake Union portfolio, which consists of four newly-developed, single-tenant, Class-A assets — including Amazon-occupied Troy Block and Tilt49 office towers, Facebook-occupied Arbor Blocks and Salesforce/Tableau Software Headquarters — totaling 1.7 million square feet.

Since joining URG in 2011, Katie provided operational oversight of Second & Seneca and 1101 Second Avenue, 500,000 square foot Class-A boutique office buildings in Seattle’s Central Business District for Rockwood Capital, and over 1.0 million square feet of campus-style, LEED-silver office space along the I-90 corridor in Bellevue, WA for Beacon Capital Partners. During her first decade in the industry, she partnered with developer and owner-operators Opus Northwest and Nitze-Stagen & Co. where she provided oversight of daily operations and financial performance of a combined 3.7 million square feet of office, industrial and retail space. Katie especially enjoys partnering with development and construction teams to transition new construction to fully operating assets for successful acquisition, operations and disposition to ensure a maximum return to investors.

Katie is a dedicated member of Junior League of Seattle focusing on membership development and effective voluntarism, the Washington Park Guild to benefit the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and routinely participates in CCIM, BOMA Seattle, CREW Seattle and NAIOP functions.

Katie achieved her Certified Commercial Investment Management (CCIM) designation in 2018, holds her Real Property Administrator (RPA) professional designation from BOMI International since 2007 and her Washington State Real Estate Broker License. She graduated from the University of Puget Sound with a B.A. in Psychology in 2000.