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Making a stand in north Renton
Boeing’s CEO of commercial unit moving to Seattle Renton has been home to airplanes division for decades; now headquarters is Puget Sound, says company By DEAN A. RADFORD dradford@rentonreporter.com
It seems that Renton is going to have to share the title of world headquarters for Boeing’s Commercial Airplanes Division with the James Albaugh rest of Puget Sound. At least that’s not ChiThe City of Renton is considering a number of ways to protect and enhance the livability of the North Renton neighborhood. They include different ways to cago, where Boeing’s corporate executives move people, possibly with a trolley running on Park Avenue. City of Renton planted their flag in 2001 on the city’s Near West Side, leaving Seattle and environs feeling jilted. They were looking for a more central location for their global company. Now, sometime this spring, James Albaugh, the division’s president and CEO, will plant his flag in downtown Seattle, taking with him about 80 employees now at the headquarters building at Boeing’s Longacres complex in Renton. He’s also looking for more space and a more central locaBy TRACEY COMPTON Other residents in the area express tion between Everett and Renton. similar concerns. tcompton@rentonreporter.com Park Avenue arguably is North Renton’s ‘Main Street,’ a key link for About 2,000 Boeing employees will When posed with this question, City decades between the neighbhorhood and downtown Renton. In the remain at Longacres, part of the of Renton planners Chip Vincent and George and Sally Daniels have distance is The Landing; the headquarters for Boeing’s Commercial company’s total Renton payroll of Angie Mathias shake their heads and enjoyed their restored 1902 home in about 13,000. Airplanes Division was once located where Target stands today. answer no, the residential character of the North Renton neighborhood since A Boeing spokesman said it the neighborhood is not changing to the Boeing’s 10-18 building is to the left in this photograph. dean A. 1989, an area dominated by singlewould be incorrect to say that the Radford, Renton Reporter density of downtown Bellevue. family homes. headquarters for the commercial “It’s really about making it a quality, George Daniels does have questions division is now in Seattle. The as proof of the city’s direction, which livable, single-family neighborhood about the future of North Renton. headquarters won’t reside in any one buildincludes the future of North Renton. because there’s been a lot of issues with The question weighing most heavily ing, he says. “We’ve got provisions within this plan incompatible development in the past,” on his mind is whether the density of “It’s best to consider the headquarters as that speak directly to creating rules that the area will change North Renton from said Vincent. Puget Sound,” said the spokesman, Tom Instead, the two offer the City Center a bedroom community to the piled-high Community Plan adopted summer 2011 likes of downtown Bellevue. [ more BOEING page 9 ] [ more north Renton page 10 ]
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