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

August 19, 2021

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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Seneca’s NOVA team going strong!

April 28, 2021

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! […]

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LMN Seattle School Project Wins AIA Award

April 19, 2021

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 […]

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Amazon’s Bellevue 600 Receives City Blessing

January 27, 2021

[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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ACEC Honors Amazon Campus and Rainier Square Tower

December 15, 2020

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

September 25, 2020

[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 […]

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

May 24, 2020

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

January 30, 2020

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

November 18, 2019

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 […]