CIO Magazine’s 20 Most Promising Data Center Solution Providers for 2019.  Centeris Data Centers is leading the transformation with mission critical infrastructure and revolutionary cabinet technology allowing enterprises of all sizes to cost effectively power AI and other compute-intensive applications without the associated hardware previously required.

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ScaleMatrix, the United States’ leading provider of variable and high-density colocation facilities, announced the opening of its new Seattle facility in partnership with Centeris, a leading data center provider in the Pacific Northwest. Enterprises will get the first chance to see the new, cutting-edge technology on March 14^th at an exclusive launch event. 

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UNFI announced plans to optimize its distribution center network in the Pacific Northwest, including consolidating five distribution centers into a new 1.2 million square foot facility at our 77-acre site in Centralia, WA.  O’Keefe Development is the developer of the new state-of the-art facility with construction financing provided by The Benaroya Company, and will enhance UNFI’s product offering and improve inventory management.

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At age 96, Rebecca Benaroya reflects on the journey of her family’s art collection, which was recently donated to the Tacoma Art Museum.  The Benaroya Collection has been hailed as one of the most prestigious private collections of glass art in the U.S.  The new Benaroya Wing opened in January, 2019 and positions the Tacoma Art Museum as one of the top five collections of studio glass in the country. 

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Highline College opens new Campus View Student Housing. The Benaroya Company provided short-term financing to Highline Place, LLC for construction of Campus View in partnership with Highline College Foundation which has a long-term lease.  Campus View is open to all students the college serves including international and domestic. It is located adjacent to the Highline College Campus and features 160-bed, 44 state-of-the-art college 2- and 4- bedroom units complete with furniture on 4 floors, and over 12,000 square feet of ground floor retail space and Highline College office space. 

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The Benaroya Pacific Northwest Regional Logistics Center with SEPA completed and with fast access to the I-5 North and South freeway interchange. It is one of the last large entitled sites available along Interstate 5 between Los Angeles and Vancouver, BC enabling potential development of up to 5 million square feet of state-of-the-art buildings in a variety of configurations. 

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Centeris Seattle SH1 Data Center Adds 2 Megawatts in Power Capacity for High Density Clients.  The new expansion is designed to support power densities of 21 KW to 52 KW per cabinet.

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Innovation Realty Partners, LLC has secured $30 million in financing from The Benaroya Company to facilitate its continued assemblage of land located within the Sammamish Town Center district in Sammamish, Washington.

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This preview exhibition unveils 65 major works of art from the Rebecca and Jack Benaroya Collection that are among 225 works along with $14 million included in a promised gift to the museum, announced earlier this year on Mrs. Benaroya’s 93rd birthday.

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As American technology companies expand their business in Asian markets, and as their Asian counterparts tackle markets in the US, demand for high-speed connectivity across the Pacific is skyrocketing. A data center campus was launched in the Seattle area to take advantage of that demand. The company behind it is Centeris ...

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Winlock City Council unanimously approved a site plan and environmental conditions for a proposed Winlock Industrial Park, an important step in freeing up the 322-acre site for developing 10 warehouse-type buildings.

The land, owned by Bellevue-based Benaroya Co., is land that was cleared several ago between Military Road and Interstate 5.

The site plan includes 17 recommended environmental requirements, which should fast track business when companies begin to apply to settle at the site, former Winlock Mayor Glen Cook said.

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Centeris, a leading infrastructure provider for cloud and enterprise mission-critical IT, announced today that it has partnered with Comcast Business, a global media and technology company, to provide direct access to Comcast's high performance network.

The new relationship allows both Centeris, which operates the most secure, efficient and resilient data center campus in the Pacific Northwest, and Comcast Business Services to offer a set of solutions designed for today’s IT infrastructure requirements.

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This year's Excellent 10 Awards - projects selected by the EDB for their positive impact on the Pierce County economy in the previous year - are responsible for millions of dollars of capital investment and thousands of jobs.

The winners are: State Farm, BNY Mellon, Niagara Bottling, Western Institutional Review Board, University Place Town Center, Sumner Distribution Warehouse, Tehaleh Community, TriWest Healthcare Alliance, Point Ruston Condominiums, and the new Holiday Inn Express in Tacoma.

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Mary Selecky, former Washington State Secretary of Health, gives the keynote address at the Sept. 25 groundbreaking of construction for the new Snoqualmie Valley Hospital, on Snoqualmie Ridge. Larry Benaroya, Manager of The Benaroya Companies, the hospital developer, sits next to the podium.

Snoqualmie Valley city leaders, business representatives and residents attended a groundbreaking ceremony for the new District 4 hospital on Wednesday, Sept. 25.

More than 125 people attended the ceremony, which marked the beginning of construction for the building.

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Industrial Market is Buzzing – Even for Spec

It seems new industrial projects are popping up all over the region, almost on a daily basis. Panattoni Development Co. has made headlines with projects in Sumner, Des Moines, South Seattle and the Kent Valley, but others also are planning and completing projects in the region.

Even DuPont is getting in on the action.

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First LEED for Healthcare Certification in the Country Complete

Group Health Cooperative’s new medical office building in Puyallup, became the first in the nation to earn a rating under LEED-HC, earning LEED Gold. The project leveraged the unique credits related to medical facilities to promote both building performance and features to improve occupant health and well-being.

The agreements among the team members, including The Benaroya Company (developer), Collins Woerman (architect), GLY (contractor), University Mechanical, Pacland (civil, landscape), Pivotal Lighting, and Engineering Economics Inc. (commissioning authority), were based on performance targets for the whole project, which made for an engaged and focused team.

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Medical Center a prototype for Group Health Clinics

Having blood work done at a doctor's office is no fun, but at the recently opened Group Health Puyallup Medical Center it should be more convenient.

A care provider uses radio frequency devices to signal lab and injection services to come to a patient's exam room so they don't have to go to the lab.

It's one of the features of the approximately 50,000-square-foot building at 1007 39th Ave. S.E. in Puyallup whose design was tested by patients and providers in a full-scale cardboard mock-up.

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Hundreds attend a memorial service for Jack Benaroya

Members of the community turned out by the hundreds, enough to nearly fill the main floor of Seattle’s Benaroya Hall, known fondly as “the house that Jack built.”

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Marvell Moves into Benaroya's South Hill Data Center in the Seattle Area

Semiconductor designer Marvell has taken space at Benaroya's recently finished South Hill data center campus in Puyallup, Washington (south of Seattle).

This is the first publicly disclosed tenant at the facility, completed in July. The companies did not specify how much space or power Marvell contracted for, but said the tenant would use it to house both active and disaster-recovery infrastructure.

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A New Data Center That Will Hit Your Sweet Spot

The decision to buy, build or lease a data center is a daunting challenge that requires a unique combination of financial, IT and real estate skills and resources. You always begin by looking hard for fatal flaws. A lack of reasonably priced power, adequate water supply, or quality fiber provider should disqualify a potential data center or data center site from consideration.

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South Hill Data Center Earns LEED Gold

The newly completed South Hill North Data Center in Puyallup, Washington has earned Gold-level certification under the LEED ( Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) program for energy efficient buildings, the project’s developer said this week. The Benaroya Company developed the South Hill facility, which features 56,605 square feet of raised floor space and electricity powered by hydroelectric and wind sources.

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Data Center Offers Sustainable Power, Wins Award

The Seattle area's new high-capacity next generation South Hill North Data Center in Puyallup, Wash., has received the Technology Development of the year Award from NAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Development Assn.  The Benaroya Co., which developed and owns the facility, was presented the award at the industry's Washington Chapter Night of the Stars Gala on Nov. 5.  South Hill Data Center was recognized for excellence in its outstanding design, quality product, sustainability, and other market criteria.  Other technology properties nominated included Microsoft's Studios West Campus.

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New Seattle-Area Data Center to Bring Much-Needed Computing Capacity to the Market

Pent-up global demand for massive cloud-computing speed and capacity is powering the construction of colossal new data centers, but most are a year or more away from being operational.  South Hill Business and Technology Center, a project of The Benaroya Company along with its hand-picked team of gold-standard experts, is in the final stages of commissioning and will be fully operational and ready for occupancy in the next two weeks.

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Benaroya turns Puyallup chip plant into tech park

Seattle-based Benaroya Cos. has become something of an expert in finding new purposes for the vacant microchip manufacturing plants sprinkled across the Northwest.

After selling plants in Idaho and Oregon to a school district and a German solar panel maker, Benaroya is now sprucing up a Puyallup plant that's been vacant for nearly a decade. The project is of keen interest to the city of Puyallup, which is hoping Benaroya will be able to bring in new businesses that will provide the city with more jobs and tax revenue.

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How Group Health designed new Puyallup building

When Group Health Executives set about designing a new building for their Puyallup facility, they did something they had never done before. They decided to develop in advance a prototype of what an efficient and effective medical facility should look like to meet today's medical needs using lean methodologies.

To find out what those needs would be, they leased space in a warehouse and fitted it out with easily movable furniture, mockups of medical equipment, and cardboard walls.

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Puyallup Leads in LEED Development Projects

“The major institutions in the community reflect the desire of the citizens we serve to do better, and set good examples and show people it can be done,” Puyallup City Manager Gary McLean, said. “There are good choices you can make for the environment and you can do them economically.”

The city is not requiring businesses to get LEED certified or use green products, however, it is just encourages them through its own practices and creation of a $40 million city hall that has a high environment-friendly, LEED Gold rating.

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Benaroya thrilled to partner with Group Health in the building of their innovative new Medical Center on our 92-acre South Hill campus

The Benaroya Company announced today construction will begin by November 1st on Group Health Cooperative's new Puyallup Medical Center at its South Hill Business and Technology Center. The facility is being designed and built by Seattle-based CollinsWoerman and GLY Construction in close collaboration with Group Health.

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City of Puyallup Excited to Receive Lift Grant

Earlier this week, the City of Puyallup was humbled and excited to receive wonderful news from the state’s Community Economic Revitalization Board (CERB).

After a lengthy and very competitive process, CERB decided to award a local infrastructure funding grant (LIFT) to the City of Puyallup, amounting to $1 million per year for 25 years. The award is based on a plan to connect Puyallup’s two job centers – South Hill and Downtown Puyallup – with improved transit connection options, trail system improvements, telecommunication/fiber-optic upgrades, and other infrastructure items– all in an effort to create jobs within the City.

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Westwood Shipping Lines Moving New Corporate Headquarters to South Hill Business and Technology Center

Another Weyerhaeuser subsidiary has been sold, and this time Puyallup landed the new corporate headquarters.

Westwood Shipping Lines, part of Federal Way’s Weyerhaeuser for more than 100 years, will be owned by Japan’s J-WesCo, effective Aug. 31. J-WesCo is a holding company formed by a consortium of Japanese stevedore companies, Westwood said in a Web posting last month announcing the sale.

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Parametrix Moving to South Hill Business and Technology Center

Parametrix announced today it will relocate the employee-owners from the Sumner offices to the South Hill Business and Technology Center in Puyallup.

Parametrix will occupy 37,000 square feet in the West building. The Benaroya Company is finishing a complete renovation of the building and is targeting LEED Gold certification. The move is scheduled for December 2010, and will be home to more than 110 Parametrix employee-owners. Parametrix will be moving from two separate buildings in downtown Sumner. “Our Sumner offices have almost doubled over the past decade, and we are eager to bring our team back together in one building and have space for growth,” said Office Principal, Dan McReynolds.

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Larry Benaroya Inducted into Commercial Real Estate Hall of Fame

On November 6th, 2009, at its annual Night of the Stars Dinner, commercial real estate executive Larry Benaroya was inducted into the highly distinguished NAIOP-Washington State Hall of Fame. Larry was honored for his longtime contribution of vision, leadership and achievement in the Pacific Northwest commercial real estate industry.

The Commercial Real Estate Hall of Fame was created over a decade ago to recognize the people who laid the groundwork for the industry today and have helped shaped the character of the region and the great cities in Washington. Larry’s father, Jack Benaroya was among the first inductees, receiving this prestigious award in 1995.

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Benaroya Company Acquires Park Place Office Complex in Everett

The Benaroya Company announced today the acquisition of Park Place Plaza, a seven building office park in Everett, Washington located at 111 S.E. Everett Mall Way, from Winward Shopping Center, a Hawaii General Partnership.

The buildings total 37,104 square feet and Benaroya plans to market the property as seven separate parcels for sale to individual owners. “We are delighted to have acquired this wonderful and unique office park,” said Larry Benaroya, principal, The Benaroya Company. “This is truly a great opportunity for businesses to own a 5,000 +/- square foot office building and control their operating costs into the future. The location and proximity to the burgeoning amenities in Everett really has great appeal.”

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4 Towers Fetch $345 Million

A Chicago investment firm yesterday completed the year's biggest buy in the Seattle real-estate market, paying $345 million for four downtown office towers located on the west side of Interstate 5.

Walton Street Capital, which has been busy investing $1.8 billion raised from pension funds and other institutions, bought the three-building Metropolitan Park complex, built in the '90s, and the older Park Place building.

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