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Docusign Tower

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, 175 m tower is now the ninth-tallest building in the city, and has 24 elevators and 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. 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

  • List of tallest buildings in Seattle

References

  1. Emporis building ID 119378 Emporis^
  2. {{SkyscraperPage|2154}}^
  3. {{Structurae|20027200}}^
  4. Wells Fargo Center Skyscraper Center, CTBUH, retrieved 2017-07-01^
  5. James R. Warren. Where Mountains Meet the Sea: An Illustrated History of Puget Sound Windsor Publications, 1986^
  6. Ivanhoe Cambridge buys 47-story Wells Fargo Center in Seattle for US$390M^
  7. Mark Stiles. EQ Office invests another $1.2B in Seattle, this time for two trophy towers Puget Sound Business Journal, June 28, 2019, retrieved 2024-04-16^
  8. Marc Stiles. Seattle's 999 Third Avenue tower to be renamed for expanding tech tenant Puget Sound Business Journal, January 14, 2020, retrieved January 15, 2020^
  9. Jacob Demmitt. DocuSign moving Seattle headquarters to a different downtown office tower GeekWire, December 8, 2015, retrieved January 15, 2020^
  10. 999 Third Avenue Retail JLL, retrieved November 1, 2022^
  11. Nick Walker. Seattle building implosion: Olympic National Life Building implosion, Feb. 28, 1982 KIRO-TV, February 28, 1982, retrieved February 25, 2018^
  12. Imploded: 650 pounds of explosive jelly and six seconds Spokane Chronicle, March 1, 1982^
  13. Going, going, going...gone Eugene Register-Guard, March 1, 1982^
  14. Paul Dorpat. Seattle has had two uppercase Big Snows — the most recent in 1916 The Seattle Times, March 2, 2017^