Our Northern Virginia Seneca Group volunteered last week with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation at Clagett Farm. Together, we assisted in repotting over 300 saplings that will eventually find permanent homes along local waterways. Shoreline trees help to filter the air and environment above and hold soil below to curb pollution and outflow before they hit […]
Our own superstar Vivian Ramirez joins other talented women on 4/25 for the Gensler/AIA DC Equity Committee’s Wield panel. She’ll be part of an open discussion around equity and career development in the design field. Come join Seneca Group, HITT Contracting, Gensler and more. https://lnkd.in/dpxpdnwd. Thank you for helping transform and strengthen our industry, Vivian. […]
Seneca Group (Sergio Curro), in conjunction with Liberty Promise and AWS, facilitated Alexandria High School youth visit to the Amazon Skills Center in Crystal City. This interactive space created as part of Amazon’s HQ2 hosts interactive exhibits about cloud computing and AI technologies designed to power future generations. The high school students experienced thought-provoking and […]
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Seneca Group is proud to announce that we have joined The Climate Pledge. Together with 375+ other leading companies, we’re committed to reaching #netzerocarbon by 2040. https://www.theclimatepledge.com/us/en/Stories/impossible-foods-cotapaxi-among-new-signatories https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6977609567807438849/ […]
This past week, Seneca Group spent a day volunteering at Rainier View Elementary with Seattle Public Schools. Our team helped with various outdoor refresh activities such as weeding, mulching, building garden beds and painting athletic court lines and art. Thank you to Seattle Public Schools for having us out for the day! […]
As part of Seneca’s community engagement commitment, our NoVA team recently spent the day cleaning up one out of the 30 ponds at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens in Northeast DC. The gardens are on ancestral land to the Nacotchtank (Anacostan) and Piscataway Conoy People. With exotic water lilies and lotus that bloom primarily during the summer, […]
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has acquired the roughly 11 vacant acres in Pentagon City that will soon be developed as PenPlace, the massive second phase of HQ2. The $198 million deal with JBG Smith (NYSE: JBGS), as expected, follows Arlington County’s late April approval of PenPlace, a nearly 3.3 million-square-foot project slated to include three […]
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Looking southwest, the upper school will partly wrap around the Vanderbilt Building, at left (renderings by LMN). Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences is planning to demolish some old industrial buildings, directly south of its existing Vanderbilt Building, for a new upper school building. LMN Architects is designing the five-story, 85,000-square-foot project at 1120 […]
Seattle-based Expedia Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXPE) has officially opened its Interbay headquarters. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, Expedia had started moving employees into its new Seattle campus. The company had joined other tech giants, such as Amazon and Microsoft, in delaying its office reopening as Covid cases spiked. The pandemic stifled Expedia’s business at a […]
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[Seneca Note: The Century Project at the Space Needle is a redesign of an international icon in Seattle. The project includes the world’s first rotating glass floor on the restaurant level just below the observation deck. Seneca was involved in the early phases of entitlement and Landmarks approval, and also provided full development management services […]
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There are two components to Amazon’s Bellevue 600 project, at 600 and 640 108th Ave. N.E. in downtown Bellevue. Phase I, the 43-story east tower, is now underway. That project replaced an old structured parking garage. It’ll probably open in 2024, after the 2023 opening of Bellevue Downtown Station, practically at its doorstep. Phase II, […]
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[Seneca Note: Congratulations to Amazon on the completion of their first of two office buildings in Nashville! Seneca Group was proud to provide development management services for the tenant improvements which includes collaborative office and communal space, cafés, and exterior amenity decks with sweeping views of Nashville.] With more than 2,500 employees already hired […]
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Seneca is proud to be a part of the Alaska Airlines Copper River Phase I project which was awarded the ENR Northwest Best Office/Retail project for 2021! […]
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Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) has hired more than 2,000 employees for its downtown Nashville office hub, and some of them began working from the company’s first new high-rise within the last month. Both milestones, which a top executive disclosed in an interview with the Business Journal, signal that not even a pandemic appears to have […]
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The pandemic may have slowed a few things down but not on our Northern Virginia Seneca team. Now at 5 members and soon to be 6, Jeff Giuzio, our Seattle Principal overseeing the Amazon HQ2 development, was finally able to experience the team in 3-D. It was a great day! […]
Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences Middle School building, designed by Seattle-based LMN Architects, is one of seven winners of the 2021 Interior Architecture Awards of the American Institute of Architects. The awards program celebrates the most innovative interior spaces, the AIA said in a press release. Entries are evaluated on design achievement, including sense […]
[Seneca Note: Congratulations to Amazon on the recent Bellevue 600 Phase 1 ADR and MDP approvals. Seneca Group is proud to provide Amazon development Management services for the entitlement, design and construction efforts.] Amazon’s Bellevue 600, a proposed two-tower office project, received an approval of its master development plan, design review and variance request from […]
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The Amazon in the Regrade project in downtown Seattle won a grand award in the 53rd Annual Engineering Excellence Awards sponsored by the American Council of Engineering Companies. Magnusson Klemencic Associates of Seattle provided structural engineering for the development, which was one of five Pacific Northwest projects honored in the 2020 awards. A total of […]
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[Seneca Note: Seneca Group assisted throughout the transaction, leading the due diligence process.] Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has purchased the Residence Inn by Marriott in Pentagon City with plans to demolish it and expand its second headquarters, the company tells the Washington Business Journal. Acorn Development LLC, an Amazon subsidiary, paid $148.5 million for the […]
[Seneca Note: Seneca Group served as development manager of the Mary’s Place Family Center in the Regrade. The new shelter was provided by Amazon and included in the multi-tower Denny Regrade development block.] Amazon has opened its homeless shelter on its downtown Seattle campus. Mary’s Place Family Center in The Regrade opened to families in […]
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Documents obtained from the city of Bellevue reveal what Amazon’s Bellevue 600 project will look like and offer other details. The development team, led by Seneca Group, states that Amazon would like to start construction of the first tower in 2021 and move into the 43-story building in 2024. In addition to the tower, the […]
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In any area of any floor in F5 Networks’ new headquarters, employees and visitors can see outside. The view was a crucial design element for the Seattle technology company, which in April began moving from its Elliott Bay campus into the 44-story tower it staked its claim on two years ago, Executive Vice President and […]
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[Seneca Note: Seneca Group is serving as Amazon’s owner representative of the Arlington HQ2 project. We are supporting the overall HQ2 development process from site evaluation and team assembly to design, permitting and construction.] From local retailers to a banana stand, Amazon.com Inc. Wednesday offered a taste of what’s to come for the residents and […]
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The Seneca team recently toured the new waterfront campus for the Expedia Group. Located on the shores of Elliott Bay, when the full campus is completed in the summer of 2020, it will comprise over one million feet of office and amenity buildings and house almost 5,000 employees. Initial occupancy of the first phase begins […]
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The 69,900-square-foot Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences Middle School building at 1137 13th Ave. on Capitol Hill was completed in late 2018. LMN Architects designed the $48 million project, and GLY Construction was the general contractor. In a press release, LMN said the middle school building is a new front door for the academy, […]
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Amazon’s new Arlington campus will feature energy-efficient offices, new community space, and neighborhood retail. As we develop plans for our second headquarters in Arlington, we are looking to foster a sense of place for our teams and community residents. We are looking to build an urban campus that will allow our employees to think creatively, […]
Seattle Children’s is building a $400 million expansion to keep up with growth. Called Building Care, the 310,000-square-foot addition, will be north of the hospital’s Building Hope location in the Emergency Department parking lot. It will serve as the hospital’s new front door, according to a news release. The addition will have eight floors above […]
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Alaska Air Group will unveil plans and break ground Thursday on a new building between its corporate headquarters and flight training center in SeaTac. The building is the first phase of the code-named Project Copper River, which the Business Journal first reported in December. Two weeks later Alaska paid nearly $32 million for the approximately […]
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