Docusign Tower

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Docusign Tower
Exterior of the Docusign Tower from the 73rd floor of the Columbia Center in 2012
Docusign Tower is located in Seattle WA Downtown
Docusign Tower
Location within downtown Seattle
Former namesFirst Interstate Tower, Wells Fargo Center
General information
TypeCommercial offices
Location999 Third Avenue
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Coordinates47°36′18″N 122°20′03″W / 47.605°N 122.3341°W / 47.605; -122.3341
Current tenantsDocusign
Completed1983
OwnerEQ Office
ManagementEQ Office
Height
Roof174.96 m (574.0 ft)
Technical details
Floor count47
Floor area87,753 m2 (944,570 sq ft)
Lifts/elevators24
Design and construction
Architect(s)McKinley Architects
Main contractorHoward S. Wright Construction
Website
999thirdave.com
References
[1][2][3] [4]

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 m2) 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 Ivanhoé 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 façade 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

References

  1. ^ "Emporis building ID 119378". Emporis. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016.
  2. ^ "Docusign Tower". SkyscraperPage.
  3. ^ Docusign Tower at Structurae
  4. ^ "Wells Fargo Center". Skyscraper Center. CTBUH. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "Ivanhoe Cambridge buys 47-story Wells Fargo Center in Seattle for US$390M".
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ Demmitt, Jacob (December 8, 2015). "DocuSign moving Seattle headquarters to a different downtown office tower". GeekWire. Retrieved January 15, 2020.
  10. ^ "999 Third Avenue Retail" (PDF). JLL. Retrieved November 1, 2022.
  11. ^ Walker, Nick (February 28, 1982). "Seattle building implosion: Olympic National Life Building implosion, Feb. 28, 1982". KIRO-TV. Retrieved February 25, 2018 – via YouTube.
  12. ^ "Imploded: 650 pounds of explosive jelly and six seconds". Spokane Chronicle. Associated Press. March 1, 1982. p. 22.
  13. ^ "Going, going, going...gone". Eugene Register-Guard. Associated Press. March 1, 1982. p. 5A.
  14. ^ Dorpat, Paul (March 2, 2017). "Seattle has had two uppercase Big Snows — the most recent in 1916". The Seattle Times.