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Geekwire: Amazon Looking at Downtown Property

On Other Blogs   February 15, 2012 at 11:42 am Josh Feit

Amazon.com is reportedly looking to expand, according to Geekwire via Bloomberg News.

According to Bloomberg News, Amazon.com is considering the purchase of a portion of a 12-acre parcel in downtown Seattle now owned by Clise Properties. Bloomberg, citing unnamed sources, said that the online retailer is in talks to buy a portion of the parcel which sits between downtown Seattle and the company’s new headquarters in the South Lake Union neighborhood.


  • http://www.twitter.com/joeszi Joe Szilagyi

    Fantastic–more Seattle jobs.

  • Guest

    Would this mess up Clise’s plans for selling the chunk of land to a developer to build mega-project along the lines of Rockefeller Center? I continue to dream of that (and of it spurring some sort of real investment in/attention to the boondoggle that is transit from LQA/SLU to Cap Hill — the 8 bus is breaking my spirit).

  • Guest

    Does Vulcan still need that upzone if Amazon buys their own property?

  • Norge

    Vulcan’s not toing to give away an upzone.  That was just the start of upzones in Seattle.  You know the Mayor nor City Council can turn down the dreams of a developer. 

  • FrequentPoster

    Mayor McDope is definitely behind this.  Next up for the Jeff Bozos empire will be bike paths for the cyclistas displacing parking, pot dispensaries, more pedestrian-friendly streetscapes, and more hipsterurbanistayuppsteriffics walking around for me to run over in my big truck.  It’s pathetic, a travesty, a miscarriage of justice.  This makes me so mad I think I might poop myself.  Maybe I just did.

  • TMN

    Shouldn’t you be all over this? Libertarian boy makes good, and whatnot? Although I have to say, I love how you ran the gamut from lazy hipster liberals to libertarian bashing in 5 sentences…

  • obvious question

    where is there a 12 acre property?

  • FrequentPoster

    Nobody ever accused me of making sense or using too much logic.  Grease your fixie chain with that, smugsters.

  • RAE

    Wouldn’t it have been great if Seattle voters had voted for the 60 acre Commons Park back in ’95.  But no!  It was an optimistic project for a cynical time. Having said that, Amazon will have lots of space to work with and I do hope that they devote an impressive amount of sq. footage to a great public space. A public space that fronts on Westlake with a SLUT stop and a place where PEOPLE will want to hang out, play with their kids and walk their dogs. This neighborhood and the city in general really need spaces like that, and having a space like that as part of the new Amazon World Headquarters, and just down the street from the Bill and Malinda Gates Foundation Headquarters… would be really, really cool. Dont’ya  think, Huh ?