GlobeSt.com UPDATE: Staying Put Is No Option for NBBJ

SEATTLE-Not moving is not really an option for NBBJ, the international architecture firm in the throes of negotiating a new lease agreement for upward of 90,000 sf. NBBJ could renew its lease at 111 S. Jackson, where it leases the majority of its space, but it would still have to temporarily relocate while required seismic upgrades are made to the building.

“So there’s no real difference between moving and not moving,” NBBJ principal Rob Swartz tells GlobeSt.com. “That issue makes it a wash.”

There is still the emotional attachment, however, as NBBJ has been in the building for 18 years. Also, there is the creative factor. Swartz says he and other principals like the distinctive floor-to-ceiling staircase in its existing space, among other things.