Westin Building Seattle

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Westin Building Seattle

Year Built: 1981

Floors: 34

Ownership: Digital Realty Trust owns the building.

Sites leasing space from Digital Realty Trust:

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The Westin Building is a Carrier Hotel and the communications hub of the Pacific Northwest. The 34 story building has a conglomeration of colocation providers, carriers, and peering exchanges (SIX and the PNWGP.) The colo providers are listed in the table below.

The Westin's Meet-Me-Room (MMR) is on the 19th floor.

Originally built as a high-rise office building in 1981, the Westin Building has been significantly upgraded with a robust electrical and mechanical infrastructure. There are 17 diesel generators, totaling 19.5 MW

Peering:

The building hosts the main node of the SIX (Seattle Internet Exchange) and the Pacific Northwest Gigapop (PNWGP).

Building Stacking Plan

Datacenter	Suite
Cogeco Peer 1	Suite 701
Equinix SE2	Suites 1150, 1202, 1300
Level3	15th floor
Semaphore	Suite 1700
Building Meet-Me Room (MMR)	19th floor
Optic Fusion	Suite 2505
Colocation NorthWest	Suite 3020
Green House Data	Suite 3200
Astute Hosting	unknown
zColo	unknown

Map and Nearby Locations

2001 Sixth Avenue ( Suite 300 )

Digital Realty Trust Sites

Nearby Facilities

Sites within 15 miles of Westin Building Seattle

Distance	Site	About
0.00 miles	Semaphore Seattle	Semaphore is a local provider in Seattle. It was one of the first to provide colocation in the Westin Building.
0.00 miles	Equinix Seattle SE2	Equinix SE2 occupies 4 different floors with in the Westin Building
0.00 miles	Optic Fusion Westin
0.00 miles	Lunavi Seattle
0.00 miles	Astute Hosting Seattle	Astute Hosting's site is in the Westin Building
0.00 miles	DataBank Westin SEA1	The site was a former zColo (Zayo) facility before being acquired in 2020.
0.00 miles	Fiberhub SEA1
0.00 miles	Colocation Northwest Westin Downtown
0.04 miles	Equinix Seattle SE3	Equinix SE3 is an 8-story steel and concrete structure designed to meet Zone 3 seismic specifications
0.04 miles	Clise: 2020 Fifth	Completed in 2013, the facility repurposed a 1975 seven story parking garage, and was honored as NAIOP’s Redevelopment of the Year in 2013 and received the AGC Grand Award for Construction in 2014.
0.16 miles	Digital Realty: 301 Virginia St.	Digital Realty is planning to build a six-story, 58,000-square-foot data center in downtown Seattle, Washington, targeting a site currently occupied by an arts venue and former Bed Bath & Beyond store.
0.16 miles	365 Seattle
0.27 miles	Lumen Seattle 3
0.34 miles	Lumen Seattle 1 (1000 Denny Way)	The site is a Level3 Gateway for Seattle.
0.34 miles	Verizon: 1000 Denny Way
0.35 miles	H5 Seattle	H5 owns the building and is landlord to the Seattle Level(3) Gateway and a XO data center.
0.54 miles	TierPoint Seattle DC1 and DC2	TierPoint's marketing describes two data centers in Seattle, but in reality, they are in the same building. The site was formerly operated by Adhost before being acquired by TierPoint in 2012.
0.54 miles	KOMO Plaza (was Fisher Plaza)	The buildings have been used as the exterior for the fictional hospital in the “Grey’s Anatomy” TV show set in Seattle. In real life, it also houses Univision Seattle, KVI Radio, Star 101.5 radio and a data center.
0.54 miles	Evocative Seattle SEA1
0.56 miles	Lumen Seattle 4
0.57 miles	Verizon: Seattle 1100 2nd	Former XO Communications site
0.86 miles	Digital Fortress Downtown	Purpose-built, high-density datacenter with Seismic Zone 4 construction.
0.87 miles	NYI Seattle SEA1
2.31 miles	Colossus: Starbucks Center	A data center is being considered within vacant space at Seattle’s Starbucks Center, using portions of two existing buildings and part of the western parking area for supporting equipment.
8.35 miles	EdgeConneX Seattle
8.56 miles	COLOinSeattle Tukwila
8.56 miles	Digital Fortress South Seattle	Digital Fotress's NOC and data center are located on Sabey's Intergate West Campus
8.57 miles	Sabey Intergate.East	Sabey's Integrate East campus has 3 buildings. Its location is close to both Boeing and SeaTac airfields
8.57 miles	DataBank SeaTAC SEA2	UPS/DC power with battery back-up with 2N configuration
8.71 miles	Sabey Intergate.West	Intergate.West is part of Intergate.Seattle, one of the largest privately owned multi-tenant data center campus on the West coast. Intergate.West provides excellent access to I-5, I-405, Hwy 99, SR-599 and East Marginal Way. Sea-Tac International Airport is only 3 miles away;
8.71 miles	Centersquare: Seattle SEA1-A
8.73 miles	Internap Seattle 3355 120th
8.73 miles	Centersquare: Seattle SEA1B
9.42 miles	Colocation Northwest Redmond
9.76 miles	Colocation Northwest Belleview
10.83 miles	WORLDLINK Seattle South
12.58 miles	Centersquare: Seattle SEA2	Formerly known as SE4. Cyxtera's SEA2 site in Tukwila Washington was acquired from CenturyLink.
13.96 miles	Lumen Seattle 5 (Bothell)	The site was a former tw telecom facility.
13.98 miles	Equinix Seattle SE4	Equinix SE4 is located 16 miles from SE2 and SE3, which are both located in Downtown Seattle. It is a 1-story building located 8 miles away from the Seattle Tacoma International Airport (SEA).
14.04 miles	Ridge ThreeInterested in this information?Contact us
14.04 miles	WORLDLINK Seattle North
14.05 miles	QuadraNet Seattle
14.56 miles	Digital Fortress Lynnwood	In 2021, Landmark Infrastructure acquired the facility, but Digital Fortress operates it.
14.56 miles	Chirisa: Lynnwood, WA	Chirisa Technology Parks (CTP) acquired this standalone facility in Lynnwood, Washington.
14.56 miles	HostPapa SEA1	The ColoCrossing site is located within Bytegrid's datacenter(former NetRiver)
15.24 miles	EastInterested in this information?Contact us	Built in July 2009, The 57,000 square foot Redmond Ridge 1 data center is about eight miles from Microsoft's headquarters campus in Redmond. The site was a cultural shift for Microsoft employees at the time. At the time each development team had their own server labs on the Redmond campus. Today cloud computing is commonplace, but this data center forced the teams to think and develop software in terms of remote computing.
15.82 miles	Centersquare: Lynnwood SEA1	Centersquare's Lynnwood data center is situated 15 miles north of Seattle and 30 miles from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, servicing the northwest of the US.

Westin Building Seattle Data Center Photos See all

Looking Up

Source: Baxtel

Telecom Nerve Center

Source: Baxtel

8th Floor Layout

Source: westinbuilding.com

Westin MMR

Source: Baxtel

24th Floor Layout

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Lobby of the Westin

Source: Clise Properties

Westin's Dual 500 KVA UPS Distribution System

Source: WBX

The WBX Makes its Conference Room Available to Tenants Upon Request

Source: WBX

Operating Company

Digital Realty Trust is a data center public REIT that owns and operates facilities in the United States and Europe. The company provides colocation and interconnection services and develops large multi‑tenant data centers for enterprise and cloud customers.

Its European platform expanded through the combination with Interxion, and through the purchase of European sites divested by Equinix following Equinix’s acquisition of TelecityGroup. The Telx acquisition added a U.S. interconnection and colocation business to Digital Realty’s portfolio.

Digital Realty Trust History:

In March 2020 completed the combination with Interxion, expanding its European platform.
In September 2017 completed the merger with DuPont Fabros Technology.
In July 2016 acquired eight European data centers from Equinix that were divested as part of Equinix’s TelecityGroup acquisition.
In October 2015 completed the acquisition of Telx.
On October 28, 2004 priced its initial public offering at 12 dollars per share.

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