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Seneca Group – Arlington, Liberty Promise, and AWS host Alexandria High School youth

April 18, 2023

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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The Climate Pledge

September 27, 2022

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/ […]

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Seneca Group Day of Giving – Seattle

August 8, 2022

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! […]

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Seneca Group Day of Giving – Arlington

July 27, 2022

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, […]

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Amazon closes $198M PenPlace purchase, another key step for HQ2’s development

June 9, 2022

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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LMN Refines Design for New SAAS High School

June 2, 2022

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 […]

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Expedia pulls back curtain on new Seattle Campus

June 1, 2022

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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Olson Kundig’s The Century Project at the Space Needle wins AIA Award

February 23, 2022

[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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Amazon’s Second Bellevue 600 Tower Gathers more Steam

January 10, 2022

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, […]