Images: Amazon.com wants to build a massive biosphere in Seattle (perfect for workers and mature trees)

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Amazon.com is charting a new course for one of its proposed downtown Seattle office buildings, unveiling new drawings this week which show a massive spherical greenhouse-like structure capable of housing multiple forms of plant life as well as mature trees. And, yes, of course, throngs of Amazon workers will be permitted too. The new proposal,… Read More…

Fast-growing Zillow is expanding again at its Seattle HQ, taking over 2 more floors

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Zillow continues to grow at a rapid clip, gobbling up more office space at its downtown Seattle headquarters in the Russell Investments Center. The company announced today that it plans to take over floors 33 and 34 at the Seattle skyscraper, adding about 45,000 square feet of space. It currently is located on floors 29… Read More…

Zulily nearing deal to secure big lease at RealNetworks HQ

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Fast-growing daily deal service Zulily has signed a letter-of-intent to occupy a large portion of the Seattle Trade & Technology Center along Elliott Avenue, GeekWire has earned. A deal has been rumored for months, but the letter-of-intent is the first solid signal that the heavily-funded company is pushing forward with its plan for the space…. Read More…

Fast-growing Avalara opens new Seattle office at Pier 55

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Avalara appears to be cornering the market on office space near the ferry terminals in the Puget Sound region. The maker of sales tax automation technologies, which recently moved into a new 17,500-square foot headquarters building on Bainbridge Island, is expanding along Seattle’s waterfront with new offices at Pier 55. It is the company’s second… Read More…

F5 Networks continues to grow, gobbles up more space along Seattle’s waterfront

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They may soon have to call it the F5 corridor. F5 Networks is expanding its presence along Elliott Avenue West on Seattle’s waterfront, announcing today that it plans to take over 40,000 square feet of office space that it had previously sublet to Cell Therapeutics. Meanwhile, Cell Therapeutics announced today it plans to move to… Read More…

Can struggling Clearwire reverse the curse of this bad-luck office building?

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This one kind of slipped under our radar. Clearwire, the broadband wireless company founded by Craig McCaw, has moved its corporate headquarters from Kirkland’s Carillon Point to the former Teledesic building in Bellevue. It’s not much of a move, really just a few miles. And the shift actually occurred back in September, though we didn’t… Read More…

Exclusive: Facebook on the prowl for more office space in Seattle

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In a visit to Seattle last month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussed the importance of the company’s newly-opened Seattle office, touting the high-quality engineers located in the region. Now, the fast-growing social networking powerhouse is looking to bolster its presence here. The company is on the prowl for more office space in downtown Seattle, GeekWire… Read More…