Benaroya Keeps CRAB at Metro Park East

SEATTLE-Things are looking brighter for Metropolitan Park East, a 20-story office tower in Downtown’s Denny Triangle neighborhood that is owned by The Benaroya Co.

Benaroya’s director of marketing and leasing Ed Luera tells GlobeSt.com that Cancer Research and Biostatistics extended its commitment for the top two floors of the 363,189-sf building, and that Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center, scheduled to vacate its 200,000 sf in the building this spring, may actually continue leasing some space there after all.

Fred Hutch, which is developing a new building in the South Lake Union area to house its public sciences division, had planned to completely vacate its space at Metro Park East when the new South Lake Union building is ready for occupancy in March. Now, says Luera, it appears Fred Hutch will need to retain some of that space, though he does not yet know how much. Fred Hutch leases 10 floors (2-11) in the building.