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Museum to Ponder WaMu Office Tower Plan

SEATTLE-Seattle Art Museum officials will consider this week a plan that would allow Washington Mutual to build a 40-story office tower next to the museum. In exchange, the museum would be able to triple its size eventually.

By Gina Binole | Updated on September 15, 2002

SEATTLE-Members of the Seattle Art Museum’s board of trustees and officials from Washington Mutual are still working on a plan that will allow the bank to build an office tower adjacent to the museum. In exchange, the museum would be allowed to occupy several floors in the new building during the course of the next couple of decades.

SAM officials will decide this week whether to endorse the plan that could triple its space. The plan also calls for replacing the eight-story, 270,000-sf Museum Plaza building, which is sandwiched between first and second avenues on Union Street Downtown. It sits about half a block from the existing Washington Mutual Tower building. The 75-year-old Plaza building is fairly empty, as Nordstrom and Seattle’s Best Coffee have moved their administrative operations out of the building.

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