Skilling Ward Magnusson Barkshire Re-ups at Rainier Tower

SEATTLE-The international engineering firm Skilling Ward Magnusson Barkshire will keep its worldwide headquarters in Downtown Seattle’s Rainier Tower for another 10 years.

The landmark 29-story building sits on an 11-story pedestal at 5th Avenue and Rainier Street and is part of the six-block Metropolitan Tract that Seattle-based Unico Properties developed and manages in partnership with the University of Washington. Skilling Ward Magnusson Barkshire, which engineered the entire tract for the partnership, has been a tenant of the building for 25 years and a tenant on the tract for 40.

Despite that history with the property, engineering firm principal John Magnusson tells GlobeSt.com it was not an easy decision to make. Magnusson says the firm had as many as 12 options to choose from when they started looking, and that was after narrowing the field to Downtown office buildings that his company had engineered and that had enough contiguous space available to accommodate them.