Apple signed a lease for office space at 333 Dexter, a 660,000-square-foot development (credit: Kilroy).
SEATTLE—For years, cranes have dominated the Seattle skyline in the rush to accommodate a growing population and rapidly growing tech firms, led by Amazon. That company now employs more than 45,000 at its headquarters here and occupies about a fifth of the most prominent office properties, according to a Bloomberg report.
Other firms have been muscling in to recruit from Seattle's engineering pool. As a result, both Google and Facebook Inc. are leasing offices near 333 Dexter, where Apple just leased space.
The firm is making good on a previously announced plan to boost hiring, bringing an additional 2,000 jobs to the area in the next five years. It signed a lease for office space at 333 Dexter, a 660,000-square-foot development in the South Lake Union neighborhood being built by Kilroy Realty Corp., according to the office of the mayor.
This will boost its current presence of about 500 employees in the city. In December, the company said that it planned to add 1,000 jobs in the area in the span of three years as part of a national expansion that also includes a $1 billion campus in Austin, TX.
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Lisa Brown
Lisa Brown is an editor for the south and west regions of GlobeSt.com. She has 25-plus years of real estate experience, with a regional PR role at Grubb & Ellis and a national communications position at MMI. Brown also spent 10 years as executive director at NAIOP San Francisco Bay Area chapter, where she led the organization to achieving its first national award honors and recognition on Capitol Hill. She has written extensively on commercial real estate topics and edited numerous pieces on the subject.
