Elaine Wine was a 2x guest tour guide of HQ2 during AIA24’s Conference 6/5 – 6/8 in DC. One of her project partners, ZGF, developed this brochure highlighting Amazon’s second HQ in Crystal City, VA. The brochure showcases the key design goals – developing an open neighborhood campus that served both employees and community AND … Read more
Written by: Charlie Gronek, Elaine Wine (Seneca Group) The built environment has a significant impact on the climate, with buildings alone contributing nearly 40% of global CO2 emissions and consuming more energy than both the industrial and transportation sectors. Implementing low carbon solutions on large developments can be challenging due to impracticality at scale, lack … Read more
Charlie and other sustainability leaders from Amazon’s Met Park featured in a USGBC+ article highlighting the sustainability features, materials, and belief system that helped Amazon’s HQ2 become the world’s largest LEED v4 BD+C Platinum project. Read full article here.
Olson Kundig has released a new book called New Heights: Transforming Seattle’s Iconic Space Needle, a behind-the-scenes story that captures the visionary design and challenging conditions that went into this $100M one-of-a-kind renovation and the teamwork that made it happen. Seneca Group’s own Matt Elliott, Debi Hudacek, Ann Lin, Vanna Nguyen, Kyle Rolfe and Mike … Read more
[Seneca Note: Seneca Group Tapped for New Stuart and Molly Sloan Precision Oncology Institute at Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Seattle WA Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center selected Seneca Group in June 2023 to provide development management services for the Seattle-based Center’s new Stuart and Molly Sloan Precision Oncology Institute. The new Institute will support the Center’s initiative … Read more
Charlie joins other project team sustainability leaders on WTOP’s panel to highlight Amazon’s Met Park strategies for achieving net-zero . Listen and watch here. WTOP YouTube Video Watch Charlie in the video below. See full video below.
The center’s design creates a welcoming, home-like environment. [Seneca Note: Our Mary’s Place Seneca Group Development Management team of Ian Kell and Matt Blakeney is proud to stand alongside Amazon and our project partners in celebration of the AIA and CTBUH awards for Mary’s Place Family Center located at Amazon’s Nitro South! Born of Amazon’s desire to give a home to this nonprofit that supports families transitioning … Read more
Last night at the 2023 NAIOP Northern Virginia Award ceremony, our Amazon HQ2 Metropolitan Park project received the highest recognition – the Built to Suit Non-Institutional Award of Excellence! Congratulations and thanks go out to the whole Seneca Group team that worked tirelessly on this impressive project. We are proud to have worked alongside many project … Read more
Demolition overseen by general contractor BNBuilders has now begun at 1120 12th Ave. on Capitol Hill, just south of East Union Street. Once four small old industrial buildings are scraped, construction will begin on the new LMN-designed upper school for SAAS, aka Seattle Academy. The plan had been to start construction after the past school year, with … Read more
