Posted Aug 7, 2016, 6:19 PM
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They're getting close to a shoring permit for the third big tower, in the foreground of the last photo. Meanwhile they're continuing to grow their stable on shorter buildings to the north and west. Should be the equivalant of 9 or 10 of these big towers completed or underway by the end of this year within a walkable area.
As for other tech companies:
Google's local offices are currently in the Fremont neighborhooda couple miles north (a very walkable/bikable, semi-dense area, also home to major operations for Adobe, Tableau, Brooks Sports, etc.), plus a lowrise campus in suburban Kirkland, which is also a relatively walkable, and semi-dense area, or on the fringe of one. The Fremont offices will move to a larger 600,000 sf complex at the south end of Lake Union (northern fringe of greater Downtown), with those projects potentially starting this winter based upon permit status.
Expedia, which controls a large percentage of online travel including other brand names, plans to move from Downtown Bellevue to a campus on Elliott Bay a mile north of greater Downtown, in around 2018 I think. Something like 1.2 msf initially, reusing and expanding a former Amgen campus.
Pioneer Square and a lot of office towers also have a big tech presence. It's really everywhere in the core. The office tower presence is a new concept...once it was thought that urban techies didn't like office towers.
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