While most of the Seattle crews working on the mammoth State Route 99 project may be cooling their heels as Bertha, the world's largest tunneling machine, remains stuck underground, another job creator has been moving swiftly through the city—office construction.
Demand for space from Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other tech giants has sent year-over-year office sector construction activity skyrocketing 169% to $629 million, according to McGraw Hill Construction Dodge data. ENR Northwest is part of MHC. The phenomenon makes office space the fastest-growing industry marketplace in the city, says Cliff Brewis, Dodge senior director of editorial operations, Clayton, Calif. Only about eight other cities nationwide, San Francisco and Baltimore among them, posted a higher percentage increase in this sector last year.