For almost 20 years, Renton has had the privilege to be home to the Northwest Mountain Region office of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA.) It’s been a great partnership. Their current home is on Lind Avenue, across the street from Wizards of the Coast.
Now, following tremendous growth in aviation over the past two decades, FAA has outgrown their existing facilities. They are looking for a place to expand.
Our economic development specialists have worked with local landowners to identify for FAA ten possible sites in Renton that we feel would be excellent locations for their new Northwest-Mountain Headquarters building.
The FAA is a very important employer in Renton, as they currently provide almost 1500 high-quality aviation jobs in our community. In their new headquarters building, this number is likely to increase to almost 2000. They are currently our city’s fourth largest employer.
The FAA also attracts engineers, mechanics and business owners from all over the Northwest and Rocky Mountain states (Washington, Idaho, Utah, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado) for prolonged business visits related to work on their airplane projects. Many of these visitors stay in our hotels and eat in our restaurants, adding even more to our jobs and city tax base. The local FAA office also host national meetings and conferences related to their leadership role in commercial jet transportation (in aviation language, they are the home of the national Transport Airplane Directorate).
We strongly desire to keep them in Renton.
Here are the sites that have been suggested to the FAA:
• The FAA Building: Current home of the nearly 200,000 square-foot FAA Northwest Mountain Regional Office at 1600 Lind Avenue Southwest. Expansion is possible there.
• Southport: 17.5 acres at 1087 Lake Washington Boulevard N. on Lake Washington.
• Lakeshore Landing: 16 acres (total 21 acres) of Boeing property at Park Avenue North and North Eighth Street.
• Sunset Bluffs: 36 acres on State Route 900/Southwest Sunset Boulevard on northwest corner of Renton’s valley office and industrial area.
• Hawk’s Landing: 7.2 acres at 4350 Lake Washington Boulevard N., near the Seahawks’ headquarters.
• Former Sound Ford property: 8.4 acres at 750 Rainier Ave. S.
• Stoneway: 14 acres on Maple Valley Highway (former Stoneway concrete plant).
• Triton Towers expansion: 21.6 acres on South Grady Way at Renton Village.
• Longacres Office Park: 12 acres of Boeing property at Southwest 27th Street, visible from I-405.
• Regal East Valley Theaters: 12.3 acres at 3751 E. Valley Road.
You can read some more about this competition in this Renton Reporter article
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