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Skyscraper in Seattle
Docusign Tower
, previously the
Wells Fargo Center
, is a skyscraper in
Seattle
, in the
U.S. state
of
Washington
. Originally named
First Interstate Center
when completed in 1983, the 47-
story
, 574-foot (175 m) tower is now the ninth-tallest building in the city, and has 24 elevators and 941,000 square feet (87,400 m
2
) of rentable space.
[5]
The design work was done by
The McKinley Architects
, and it is owned by
Chicago
-based
EQ Office
.
In 2013, the building was purchased by Canada's
Ivanhoe Cambridge
from
Beacon Capital Partners
of
Boston
.
[6]
The building was renamed after
First Interstate Bancorp
was taken over by
Wells Fargo
in 1996. In 2019, the building was purchased by
EQ Office
.
[7]
Docusign
took over naming rights in 2020 after expanding their lease within the building, which began in 2015.
[8]
[9]
The exterior facade is composed of a six-sided, steel-framed tower that features a combination of tinted continuous double-glazed glass and polished spring rose granite panels. As is common with buildings in downtown Seattle, Docusign Tower rests on a slope. The eastern entrance facing Third Avenue is slightly more than two stories higher than the Western side facing Second Avenue. On the west side, the building has a public hill-climb on two flights of outdoor escalators that were encased in clear tubes until 2006 when they were updated with a simpler, yet more modern glass roof. The building has three levels of outdoor plazas.
[
citation needed
]
Several retail spaces face the west plaza.
[10]
The site was previously occupied by the 12-story Olympic National Life building, which was demolished by
implosion
on the morning of Sunday,
February 28, 1982.
It was the first demolition by implosion in downtown
Seattle.
[11]
[12]
One of the city's first steel skyscrapers, it was built in 1906 and was also known as the American Savings Bank and the
Empire Building.
[13]
[14]
See also
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edit
]
References
[
edit
]
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"Emporis building ID 119378"
.
Emporis
. Archived from
the original
on March 7, 2016.
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"Docusign Tower"
.
SkyscraperPage
.
- ^
Docusign Tower
at
Structurae
- ^
"Wells Fargo Center"
.
Skyscraper Center
. CTBUH
. Retrieved
2017-07-01
.
- ^
Warren, James R.; Henry Gordon; Karen Milburn (1986).
Where Mountains Meet the Sea: An Illustrated History of Puget Sound
. Northridge, CA: Windsor Publications. p.
243
.
ISBN
0-89781-175-5
.
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"Ivanhoe Cambridge buys 47-story Wells Fargo Center in Seattle for US$390M"
.
- ^
Stiles, Mark (June 28, 2019).
"EQ Office invests another $1.2B in Seattle, this time for two trophy towers"
.
Puget Sound Business Journal
. Retrieved
2024-04-16
.
- ^
Stiles, Marc (January 14, 2020).
"Seattle's 999 Third Avenue tower to be renamed for expanding tech tenant"
.
Puget Sound Business Journal
. Retrieved
January 15,
2020
.
- ^
Demmitt, Jacob (December 8, 2015).
"DocuSign moving Seattle headquarters to a different downtown office tower"
.
GeekWire
. Retrieved
January 15,
2020
.
- ^
"999 Third Avenue Retail"
(PDF)
.
JLL
. Retrieved
November 1,
2022
.
- ^
Walker, Nick (February 28, 1982).
"Seattle building implosion: Olympic National Life Building implosion, Feb. 28, 1982"
. KIRO-TV
. Retrieved
February 25,
2018
– via YouTube.
- ^
"Imploded: 650 pounds of explosive jelly and six seconds"
.
Spokane Chronicle
. Associated Press. March 1, 1982. p. 22.
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"Going, going, going...gone"
.
Eugene Register-Guard
. Associated Press. March 1, 1982. p. 5A.
- ^
Dorpat, Paul (March 2, 2017).
"Seattle has had two uppercase Big Snows ? the most recent in 1916"
.
The Seattle Times
.
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