A render of Amazon’s 43-story workplace tower in Bellevue. Building is anticipated to be full by 2024.
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Amazon is resuming development on a 42-story workplace tower within the Seattle suburb of Bellevue, the corporate mentioned Thursday, after 22 flooring of the constructing sat unfinished since 2022.
The corporate in 2022 paused work on 5 towers within the Bellevue space, together with new workplaces in Virginia and Nashville, citing uncertainty across the pandemic’s affect on in-office work. On the time, CEO Andy Jassy mentioned the corporate was embracing hybrid and distant work. Since then, Amazon has required its staff to be within the workplace a minimum of three days every week.
In December, Amazon opened the primary half of the 42-story workplace tower in Bellevue, dubbed “Sonic,” and moved about 1,000 staff into the ability.
“As soon as full later this 12 months, Sonic will present house for greater than 4,500 staff complete,” the corporate mentioned.
Amazon has continued to safe workplace house outdoors of Seattle, the place it is headquartered. Its Seattle campus now spans tens of hundreds of thousands of sq. ft throughout greater than 40 workplace buildings. Amazon has mentioned it does not count on to develop its presence additional in Seattle.
The corporate has mentioned it plans to rent 25,000 staff within the Bellevue space. Along with the Sonic tower, different buildings embrace Dynamo, which opened in February and may home as much as 1,500 staff, in addition to a 43-story tower known as the “Bellevue 600” undertaking. The tower, its largest, could have about 1 million sq. ft of workplace house.
Whereas the corporate is resuming work in Bellevue, a few of Amazon’s different workplace tasks stay halted. Final March, Amazon mentioned it could pause development on the second section of its sprawling northern Virginia campus, referred to as HQ2. The second section, known as PenPlace, consists of three 22-story workplace buildings, retail house and a 350-foot-tall tower referred to as “The Helix.” The primary section of HQ2 opened final 12 months.
