MUKILTEO – The Boeing Co. will lease about 150,000 square feet of space in a Mukilteo commercial building that has stood mostly vacant over the past several years.
Roughly 1,000 Boeing engineers and engineering support staff will move into the Harbour Pointe Tech Center, a 335,000-square-foot building not far from the Snohomish County Airport at Paine Field. The Boeing Co. will be the center’s largest tenant. Although the majority of the leased space will be used for offices, about 9,000 square feet is for warehousing.
As Boeing continues to expand its commercial airplane business in the region, it needs additional office space for its workers, said Debbie Heathers, a company spokeswoman. The Harbor Pointe offices won’t be used for employees of a specific airplane program.
In 2000, Prescott Realty Group bought the Harbour Pointe building, which was once used by Raytheon Co. as a torpedo manufacturing facility.
Colliers International represented the Dallas, Texas-based realty group in the transaction.
“Boeing growing its office needs locally is a boost to the north end office market and a vote of confidence for the Puget Sound,” said Derek Heed, with Colliers.
Heed said that he could not disclose the terms of the lease with Boeing.
Smiths Aerospace, a supplier for Boeing’s 787 jet, leased a spot in Harbor Pointe in October 2005. Other tenants in the building include Eaton Electrical, Diligenz Inc., Saturn and CombiMatrix, a developer of biochips that leased about 90,000 square feet in 2000.
“We are excited to see Boeing moving into one of the county’s most desirable office properties – Harbour Pointe Tech Center,” said Deborah Knutson, president of Snohomish County Economic Development Council in a prepared statement. “It’s a beautiful building and an ideal location for one of this county’s long-time, highly respected companies.”
The Harbour Pointe Tech Center has about 69,000 square feet of space still available – 62,000 of warehouse space and 7,000 of office space, Heed said.
Boeing engineers will begin moving into the Harbour Pointe building in the third quarter of this year.
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