From GeekWire:
Amazon backs out of massive Seattle office tower as questions swirl about growth plans
Amazon has placed a high-profile Seattle office project on the sublease market, signaling plans to scale down its growth in its hometown.
A marketing flier obtained by GeekWire confirms that the tech giant is seeking new tenants for its office space in Rainier Square, a building under construction that will one day be the city’s second-tallest skyscraper. Amazon had leased all 30 floors of office space in the building. After weeks of rumors, the listing was made official over the weekend, according to real estate brokers familiar with the marketing efforts. Amazon will make all of the office space it leased in Rainier Square available to other companies.
The skyscraper project, once an emblem of Amazon’s ambitions in Seattle’s urban core, now becomes a symbol of its uncertain future in its hometown. The move follows Amazon’s decision to back out of its HQ2 project in New York City after opposition there, amid signs that the company will focus its Seattle-area growth in nearby Bellevue, Wash.
Interesting - the article points to another article about how Amazon was not pleased with the head tax designed to fund free shit for homeless people. I bet that Bellevue does not have this head tax.
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