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Amazon moves into first Nashville Yards tower as headcount eclipses 2,000

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 … Read more

LMN Seattle School Project Wins AIA Award

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 … Read more

Amazon’s Bellevue 600 Receives City Blessing

[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 … Read more

ACEC Honors Amazon Campus and Rainier Square Tower

The Spheres is the centerpiece of the Amazon in the Regrade development in downtown Seattle. 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 … Read more

Amazon buys Pentagon City hotel, now has full control over superblock as vision for HQ2 expands

Immediately north of The Bartlett, across 12th Street South, is the 10-acre PenPlace. The Residence Inn is at the top left. [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 … Read more

Amazon’s Seattle campus now hosts Mary’s Place – the largest family shelter in Washington

[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 … Read more

First Look: Amazon’s Bellevue 600 Skyscrapers Designed to be Gateway

The first phase of Amazon’s Bellevue 600 project is shown in this conceptual rendering. The tower is planned to be 600 fee tall. This is a view looking to the northwest. 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 … Read more

Sneak Peek: Inside F5 Tower, the Seattle Tech Company’s New Home

A wooden reception desk welcomes visitors to the F5 Tower. Director of Global Real Estate and Operations, Jay Phillips, said the display changes depending on who is visiting. 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 … Read more