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First Upscale Office Building Arrives in Georgetown District

SEATTLE, WA-Pacific Lighting Systems' desire for a new headquarters, coupled with a lack of suitable properties in the target neighborhood, prompted owners Ken Jones and Seamas Markey to become developers.

By Janet Parker | Updated on January 03, 2002

SEATTLE, WA-South Seattle’s Georgetown district has its first upscale office project in Pacific Georgetown Center, a 1960′s single-story warehouse transformed into a two-story, 36,000-sf office building by local businessmen-turned-developers Ken Jones and Seamas Markey.

Jones and Markey, owners of Pacific Lighting Systems, are used to working on the periphery of commercial development. Their lighting clientele is chock full of developers, architects and designers. But when they decided to move from their Dearborn Ave. site, Jones tells GlobeSt.com that what they wanted wasn’t readily available, forcing them to build their own.

Proximity to the Seattle Design Center was a priority. “There wasn’t any available land in the area to build in the size we needed–unless we went into the more-industrial SODO district, so we decided to renovate,” Jones tells GlobeSt.

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