Social Impact

Our Team is deeply committed to our community, and collectively involved by serving on many local Boards and Civic Work Groups, including:

• Downtown Seattle Association (DSA)
• Northern Rainier Valley Partnership (Founder)
• Downtown Seattle Association Policy Committee
• Building Owners and Managers Assocation Seattle King County (BOMA)
• CRECI – Commercial Real Estate Certification Institute
• SCIDpda
• SODO BIA
• Metropolitan Improvement District Advisory Committee
• Alliance for Safety, Affordability, and Preservation (ASAP!) (Co-Founder)
• Othello Central Square Stakeholders Group (Founder)
• Pioneer Square Safety and Security Group (Founder)
• Runstad School of Real Estate at University of Washington
• Historic Seattle Foundation
• Ryther
• Weld Seattle

Nitze-Stagen is committed to develop, own, and manage high-quality, affordable, mixed-use housing to residents in Seattle earning a wide range of median incomes (AMI). Its housing is located along transit-oriented-development corridors in order to leverage the City of Seattle and King County’s expenditures on public transportation and to support climate change goals for the Puget Sound Region.

1980s

• Merrill Place: A full block of early 20th-century, brick and beam buildings in Pioneer Square turned into tech office space.

1990s

• Starbucks Center: Sears catalog distribution center in SoDo was Acquired by Nitze-Stagen.
• Union Station: A Partnership of Nitze-Stagen and Vulcan Inc., includes restoration of the 111-year-old station in the CID, now the headquarters of Sound Transit, plus development of over 1.1 million square feet of office space.

2000s

• Cadillac Hotel in Pioneer Square was repaired and reopened by Nitze-Stagen, in partnership with Historic Seattle PDA, following the Nisqually earthquake.

2020s

• 760 Aloha Street: Originally housing a paint manufacturing company on two floors, this mid-century warehouse in South Lake Union has had four floors added and been fully converted to office space through historic adaptation.
• 1130 Rainier Avenue S:The original Black Manufacturing Building, built in 1914, has been restored to three floors of commercial office space.