MALTBY — An office equipment company is leaving its Highway 9 location after King County bought the building it leased near the proposed Brightwater sewage treatment plant.
Quality Business Systems Inc., which has been at 22509 Highway 9 since 2002, recently signed a lease for nearly 40,000 square feet of space in Redmond, said Chris Hughes of Pacific Real Estate Partners in Bellevue.
He and another Pacific broker, Mark Flippo, represented the office equipment company in its relocation search.
Opus Northwest, which developed the Highway 9 building for Quality Business Systems, recently sold the structure and surrounding undeveloped land to King County for at least $4.3 million, according to Snohomish County records. King County has bought nearby parcels as well.
Several businesses are expected to be forced out of their locations by the new treatment plant. Construction ix scheduled to begin in 2005. Chief among them is StockPot Inc., a soup manufacturing plant behind the Quality Business Systems building. That company has not yet sold its building and land, which has an assessed value of $8.6 million, according to county records.
The Snohomish County Economic Development Council is working with at least one of the businesses that is expected to move because of the Brightwater project.
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