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Starbucks Center

World headquarters of coffee chain Starbucks in Seattle, Washington

Field	Value
name	Starbucks Center
former_names	Sears, Roebuck and Co. Building
SODO Center
SBC
image	Starbucks Headquarters Seattle.jpg
caption	Front of the building pictured in 2006
owner	Nitze-Stagen
current_tenants	Starbucks
US Bank
SODO Kitchen
AmazonFresh Pickup
location	cor. 1st Avenue South & South Lander Street
address	2401 Utah Avenue South
Seattle, Washington
98134
coordinates
inauguration_date	1912
floor_area	1800000 sqft
architect	George C. Nimmons

SODO Center SBC US Bank SODO Kitchen AmazonFresh Pickup Seattle, Washington 98134

The Starbucks Center (formerly the SODO Center) is the world headquarters of the coffeehouse chain Starbucks. It is located in the SoDo neighborhood of Seattle, Washington; the area is part of the city's large industrial district. Starbucks Center is the largest multi-tenant building by floor space in Seattle, with over 1.8 e6sqft. It is both the largest and oldest building in the country to earn a national green certification.

History

In 1915, the building was constructed by Sears, Roebuck and Co. to fulfill the Sears Catalog in the Western United States. It was added on the north side of an original 1912 building. Sears opened their retail store at this location in 1925. According to the owner, this was the world's oldest continuously operated Sears store (though the Sears store on Lawrence Ave in Chicago opened in the same year and operated until 2016).

The building was repeatedly expanded during the 20th century. After the Sears catalog business was closed, the building was sold in 1990, and eventually redeveloped as the SoDo Center. Starbucks began moving its administrative offices to the old Sears building in 1993. |access-date=June 14, 2014}} On June 20, 1997, the coffeehouse chain moved its headquarters to the SoDo Center, became the building's primary tenant, and secured the naming rights. |access-date=June 14, 2014}} |access-date=June 14, 2014}} |access-date=October 1, 2016}} Accordingly, the building's name was duly changed from the SoDo Center to the Starbucks Center.

The building underwent significant renovation following severe damage caused by the 2001 Nisqually earthquake. The Sears department store closed in June 2014 along with its nearby Sears Auto Center. In the first quarter of 2017, Amazon Fresh's newest service, AmazonFresh Pickup, began operating out of the location.

References

(June 16, 1997). "Starbucks Coffee Co. and Nitze-Stagen Complete Major Renovation: Former SODO Center Renamed Starbucks Center". Starbucks, Inc..
(September 20, 2002). "Quake-hit Starbucks Center returns". Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
(November 1, 2007). "Seattle's Starbucks Center earns national green certification". Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
"Seattle Historical Sites Search Result - Department of Neighborhoods (DON)".
(June 19, 2020). "Starbucks Center in Seattle Was Once a Sears Building".
"Starbucks Center property information". Nize-Stagen.
González, Angel. (February 22, 2014). "Sears closing store, ending a century in Sodo building". The Seattle Times.
González, Ángel. (March 28, 2017). "Amazon tries to bag a big chunk of grocery market with Seattle pickup locations". The Seattle Times.

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