SEATTLE | Downtown Projects: Completed, U/C, Proposed/Approved

[dc_denizen]

The momentum in Seattle is incredible. Other cities might talk about a 'Silicon Alley', but Seattle seems at the forefront of moving tech jobs into the core of urban areas and away from suburban campuses.

[mhays]

The difference is Amazon, which occupies at least 3 msf, is building 2 msf, and is planning millions more. Media reports suggest they'll top 8 msf in very short order. That's an extraordinary asset for an urban core...particularly since they reportedly average more than the typical 4 or 5 workers per 1,000 sf, and are disproportionately young adults who want to live within walking distance. I'd guess every msf means 1,000 to 2,000 apartments.

Otherwise we're probably similar to some other cities, with a range from small to pretty big but not huge in-town. Those with workforces that must be 1,000+ in in-city Seattle locations include Adobe (which bought local Aldus in the 90s I think) and Google in the Fremont district (they also have a growing suburban campus) and F5 Networks on the northern Downtown waterfront. Others like RealNetworks, Corbis, and Getty are significant Downtown headquarters. Local engineering offices of SF-area firms are often Downtown, including Facebook and Twitter. The Pioneer Square area is a hotspot for small and medium firms in gaming, graphics, and so on.

Downtown Bellevue has five or six highrises worth of Microsoft and Expedia.

Most of our commercial and non-profit biotech and medical research laboratory space is on the Downtown fringes (reportedly over 5 msf), with a suburban area being secondary for those purposes.

[alki]

Originally Posted by dc_denizen

The momentum in Seattle is incredible. Other cities might talk about a 'Silicon Alley', but Seattle seems at the forefront of moving tech jobs into the core of urban areas and away from suburban campuses.

Yeah, it seems like a critical mass has been reached in DT Seattle. Now we need to snag a Microsoft operation when it starts growing again.

[alki]

Trammell Crow Wants To Begin Denny Triangle Tower This Year



http://seattle.curbed.com/

[J_M_Tungsten]

Yesterday
Various projects from Gasworks Park.

[mhays]

Nice pic.

I took a long walk yesterday. From the Lakeview overpass (NE fringe of South Lake Union) I counted 20 cranes in greater Downtown, plus two north of the canal. Add the ones I couldn't see (mostly Capitol Hill) and it might be around 28-30.

[tyleraf]

Congrats Seattle!

[Libertarian]

Yeah, you guys are cooking.

[alki]

Congrats SEAHAWKS and the 12th MAN!

[nergie]

Legion of Boom!!! Congrats to Seattle and the Seahawks.

[alki]

Originally Posted by nergie

Legion of Boom!!! Congrats to Seattle and the Seahawks.

That's right........lots of boom in Seattle......esp DT.

[alki]

Renderings Revealed

Latest Look At Ninth & Stewart Before Next Review Meeting

Tuesday, February 4, 2014, by Sean Keeley




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http://seattle.curbed.com/archives/2...ew-meeting.php

[alki]

Is Amazon.com expanding to Seattle’s waterfront?


Amazon.com is leasing this building known as 635 Elliott on Seattle's waterfront, commercial real estate industry sources say. Building owner Martin Selig did not return calls seeking comment, and an Amazon spokesman declined to comment.
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Marc StilesStaff Writer- Puget Sound

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http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/b...-seattles.html

[mSeattle]

From SSC

Another residential tower proposal. http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/AppDocs/G...endaID4733.pdf

Originally Posted by Matt the Engineer

So not everyone has to open the 33MB document, here at least is a summary:
PROGRAM | FLOORS | AREA
BELOW GRADE PARKING | 5 | 97,000 SF
LOBBY / RETAIL / BOH | 1 | 18,800 SF
RESIDENTIAL | 39 | 381,000 SF
AMENITY AND ROOF DECK | 1 | 17,300 SF

RESIDENTIAL UNITS 430 UNITS
PARKING STALLS 232 STALLS (0.54/UNIT)
RETAIL 6,400 SF
HEIGHT 400’ HEIGHT (+40’ FOR MECHANICAL AND AMENITY)

[alki]

Originally Posted by mSeattle

From SSC

Another residential tower proposal. http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/AppDocs/G...endaID4733.pdf

Looks like it could be another good one. Looking to see how rent up goes for the new ones getting close to completion.

[mhays]

We're up to at least 20 residential buildings at 440' in greater Downtown that have either talked publicly or done something in permitting in the past few years, including the four underway. A few more of these seem poised to start in the next couple months if they and backers choose to.

[alki]

Originally Posted by mhays

We're up to at least 20 residential buildings at 440' in greater Downtown that have either talked publicly or done something in permitting in the past few years, including the four underway. A few more of these seem poised to start in the next couple months if they and backers choose to.

There are only 4 out of the 20 underway? I thought there were more than that. Frankly, I am not keeping close track.

[alki]

Originally Posted by mhays

We're up to at least 20 residential buildings at 440' in greater Downtown that have either talked publicly or done something in permitting in the past few years, including the four underway. A few more of these seem poised to start in the next couple months if they and backers choose to.

Is this you? Good article:

Biggest boom ever?

http://www.djc.com/blogs/SeattleScap...est-boom-ever/

[alki]

MulvannyG2 Architecture leaving Bellevue for Seattle

Marc StilesStaff Writer-
Puget Sound Business Journal
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The Puget Sound region’s third-largest architecture firm, MulvannyG2, will move from its longtime office in Bellevue to downtown Seattle, where it is leasing three floors in an old office building.

MulvannyG2 CEO Mitch Smith said Thursday that in 2015 the company will move all 220 employees to 1101 Second Ave., where the company will occupy 63,000 square feet of space. The firm will vacate about the same amount of space in One Twelfth @ Twelfth, a 14-year-old campus that MulvannyG2 designed.

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http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/n...e-leaving.html

[alki]

Western Building lands first tenant and backing from Benaroya (slide show)

Marc StilesStaff Writer-
Puget Sound Business Journal
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A Seattle company that develops 21st-century technology products is moving into an early 20th-century building that not too long ago was on the verge of being torn down.

Artefact has leased the top two floors of the Western Building, the 104-year-old Pioneer Square warehouse that until three years ago housed art studios.

After millions of dollars of work — some funded by the state and the rest financed by the Benaroya Cos., of Bellevue — the building’s duckling-to-swan metamorphosis is taking shape. What once was a building in severe structural distress today seems a stout structure that in a few years will have unobstructed views of Elliott Bay and the Olympic Mountains.

The Western Building’s floor-to-ceiling wall cracks and sloping floors have been repaired. Crews from Bellevue-based general contractor GLY used 50-ton jacks to raise the building, which has 252 new micro-pilings stabilizing the foundation. Two Seattle companies, engineering firm Coughlin Porter Lundeen and Ron Wright & Associates/Architects, designed the makeover.

What’s left is the raw, exposed-brick-and-beam character that tech firms and other creative companies crave.

“The building itself just captivated us when we first saw it,” said Dawn Bernhardt, head of operations for 7-year-old Artefact, which hopes to move from Seattle’s South Lake Union to Pioneer Square by the end of this year.

Seattle real estate broker Stan Piha markets the Western’s 75,000 square feet space for lease. He said he is “very close to potentially having one tenant” for floors two, three and four.

This is not surprising, given not only the soulful character of the office space but its location in Pioneer Square. Only about 6 percent of the Class A office space is available for lease, according to commercial real estate services company Jones Lang LaSalle.

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