Worldscape AI signed a new lease for 14,975 square feet at The Offices at Riverpark in Redmond during the second quarter of 2026, according to the Broderick Group’s Q2 2026 Eastside Office Market Report, which recorded the transaction as a new deal. The commitment places a homegrown AI company into one of downtown Redmond’s marquee Class A buildings at a moment when AI demand is reshaping regional leasing.
Worldscape Technology, which operates as Worldscape.ai, is headquartered in Redmond and describes itself as building a data fabric for the AI era, according to the company. In March 2026, the firm closed a $6 million seed round led by Scout Ventures with participation from Radius Capital and Washington Harbour Partners, according to Built In Seattle, capital the company said it would use to accelerate product development and grow its engineering and go-to-market teams. As a young venture still scaling its headcount, Worldscape represents precisely the kind of AI-native tenant that market analysts have identified as the leading edge of new office demand.
The Offices at Riverpark is a five-story, LEED Silver-certified Class A building totaling 106,281 square feet at 15809 Bear Creek Parkway, delivered in 2008 within downtown Redmond’s RiverPark mixed-use community, according to KBS, which acquired the property for $48.1 million in 2019. The transit-oriented building sits near the Downtown Redmond light-rail station and is surrounded by major technology occupiers, including Microsoft’s headquarters, giving a growth-stage tenant a well-amenitized address in the heart of the submarket.
The lease arrives as Redmond’s fundamentals strengthen. Office vacancy in the submarket fell to 14.2 percent in the second quarter of 2026, down from 14.6 percent in the first quarter and 17.6 percent at the end of 2025, according to the Broderick Group’s Q2 2026 report. Redmond posted positive net absorption in both quarters, adding 122,620 square feet in the first and 18,853 square feet in the second, against an inventory of roughly 4.08 million square feet, the report found.
Rents have stayed resilient through the rebound. The average gross asking rent in Redmond registered $41.97 per square foot in the second quarter, according to the Broderick Group’s Q2 2026 report. Microsoft anchors the submarket as its cornerstone occupier, per the report, and the software giant’s presence continues to draw a constellation of technology firms, startups and service providers into the surrounding market.
Worldscape’s commitment aligns with the trend the Broderick Group identified as the market’s biggest near-term catalyst. AI demand is the most significant force shaping the Eastside’s near-term trajectory, according to its Q2 2026 report, which pointed to Seattle’s ranking as the second-largest U.S. AI cluster in a June 2026 Hubble analysis. The report also flagged aerospace and space technology as an emerging Redmond demand segment, evidence of a widening tenant base beyond the submarket’s software roots.
That broadening demand is reversing a long stretch of weakness across the wider region. Eastside office vacancy stood at 21.2 percent in the second quarter of 2026, according to the Broderick Group’s Q2 2026 report, but the market logged its first positive quarterly absorption in more than a year at 278,846 square feet. With no new office construction scheduled to deliver in 2026, per the report, expanding tenants are competing for existing space rather than waiting on fresh supply, a dynamic that steadily erodes availability in the strongest buildings.
For a startup that raised its seed round only months earlier, a nearly 15,000-square-foot lease signals conviction about growth and a bet on assembling talent in person within Redmond’s technology corridor. It also gives KBS a meaningful new tenant at The Offices at Riverpark, chipping away at availability in a Class A asset positioned to benefit from the submarket’s tightening conditions.
Worldscape’s move is a small but telling marker of how the AI wave is translating into physical footprints on the Eastside. If venture-backed AI companies continue to graduate from co-working suites into full-floor commitments, submarkets like Redmond, already outperforming the region on absorption, stand to capture an outsized share of the demand that the Broderick Group expects to define the coming quarters.
Story first published in The Registry