A Fight to Save a Corporate Campus Intertwined With Nature
The Weyerhaeuser site near Seattle, praised for its balance of building and landscape, is at the center of a battle between conservationists and a developer.
The former corporate campus and headquarters of the timber company Weyerhaeuser in Federal Way, Wash. A developer wants to add industrial buildings to the campus.Credit.Grant Hindsley for The New York Times
Published Feb. 12, 2021Updated Feb. 19, 2021
Protests often erupt over proposals to demolish or even alter historic buildings. Threats to landscaping usually get far less attention.
But that’s changing in a Seattle suburb, where a developer plans to build on the corporate campus that George H. Weyerhaeuser created for his family’s timberland and wood products company beginning in the late 1960s.