Status Topped-out Cost $450 million Floors 44 Developer Daniels Real Estate Groundbreaking 2014 | Estimated completion April 2017 Height 201 m Floor area 7 ha Architecture firm ZGF Architects LLP | |
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Former names Fifth and Columbia Tower Type Mixed-use: hotel and office building Location 801 5th Avenue, Seattle, Washington, U.S. Address 801 5th Ave, Seattle, WA 98104, USA Similar Madison Centre, Seattle Municipal Tower, Columbia Center, 1201 Third Avenue, 2nd & Pine | ||
The Mark (previously Fifth and Columbia Tower) is a 660-foot (200 m) skyscraper that is under construction in Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington. It will consist of 44 floors and be completed in April 2017. The tower will consist of 528,000 square feet (49,100 m2) of office space and a 184-room luxury hotel operated by SBE Entertainment Group. It was designed by Zimmer Gunsul Frasca and is being developed by Daniels Real Estate. Out of all skyscrapers under construction amidst Seattle’s historic construction boom, The Mark is the most expensive.
When the building is completed it will be the fifth-tallest building in Seattle, and the tallest building completed since 1990. To achieve LEED Gold standards it will have a system to capture rainwater for reuse, a 35-foot-tall (11 m) "living wall" where plants grow in a Columbia Street façade, and rooftop solar energy equipment. Plans call for the building to be smallest at its base with each floor a different size. Shoring and excavation began in summer 2008 and was delayed due to economic conditions. Construction re-started in the summer of 2014.
The tower is being built next to the former First Methodist Episcopal Church. Although the education wing was demolished to make room for the tower, the remainder of the former church building is being preserved and has since been re-purposed into the Daniels Recital Hall.
During construction, cables and shoring mechanisms left over from the construction of the Columbia Center in the 1980s were discovered, which led developer Daniels Real Estate to file a lawsuit in August 2015 against the owners of the Columbia Center.