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  Washington Mutual Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Washington Mutual Tower is the second tallest skyscraper in the downtown Seattle skyline.
Standing at a height of 235 meters (772 feet), and containing 55 stories, it is also the eighth tallest skyscraper on the West Coast.
It is the world headquarters of Washington Mutual, a financial company, and is located at 1201 Third Avenue.
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 Washington Mutual - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Washington Mutual's principal activities are to provide financial services to consumers and businesses such as retail banking, mortgage lending, consumer lending, business banking, business lending, insurance services, credit card services, and consumer investment services.
Washington Mutual is the sole surviving major Seattle-based bank after the flurry of mergers in the 1980s and 1990s ended the independence of Rainier Bank, Seafirst Bank, and Peoples Bank, among others.
Washington Mutual was founded as the Washington National Building Loan and Investment Association on September 25, 1889 in an attempt to save Seattle's economy after a fire nearly destroyed the city.
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 Seattle, Washington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is located in the U.S. state of Washington between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, nearly 108 miles (174 km) south of the United States–Canadian border in King County, of which it is the county seat.
Other notable Seattle landmarks include the Smith Tower, Pike Place Market, the Fremont Troll, the Experience Music Project (which is at Seattle Center), the new Seattle Central Library, the Washington Mutual Tower, and the Columbia Center, which is the fourth tallest skyscraper west of the Mississippi River and the twelfth tallest in the nation.
Group Health Cooperative was one of the pioneers of managed care in the United States, the University of Washington is consistently ranked among the country's top ten leading institutions in medical research, and Seattle was a pioneer in the development of modern paramedic services with the establishment of Medic One in 1970.
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 Washington Mutual Tower: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Washington Mutual Tower is the second tallest skyscraper skyscraper quick summary:
Despite its name, washington mutual is a stock financial services company based in seattle, washington....
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 Wamu, art museum think big for new 40-story tower   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Washington Mutual and the Seattle Art Museum plan to push ahead with plans for a 40-story downtown tower that would give the Seattle-based bank a new corporate headquarters and allow the museum to ultimately triple in size.
Washington Mutual's decision to cement its presence in its hometown is a "strong economic message for everyone in Seattle about this company," said Matt Griffin, managing partner of Pine Street Group LLC, the project's lead developer.
Representatives of Washington Mutual and SAM applied to the city in late August for preliminary guidance in the design of the building, one of the first steps in the process of municipal review and permitting.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /business/87640_wamu19.shtml   (1202 words)

  
 MagnaDrive - The MagnaDrive Adjustable Speed Drive Installations
The 55-story Washington Mutual Tower is one of downtown Seattle’s premier office buildings, with over 1 million square feet of tenant space and a six-level underground parking garage.
Washington Mutual operates their HVAC cooling system for eight hours per day approximately one hundred days per year for a savings of 36,000 kWh per year.
The data was developed by measuring the actual power draw and water flow of the Washington Mutual Tower system over a wide range of potential operations.
www.magnadrive.com /md_asd/cstudy_wamu1_2.shtml   (1229 words)

  
 Engineered Systems: Magnetic drives solve hvac maintenance problems for high-profile Seattle tower - Case in Point   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Located in the heart of downtown Seattle, the 55-story Washington Mutual Tower is one of the city's premier office buildings, with over 1 million sq ft of tenant space and a six-level underground parking garage.
The existing hvac system in the Washington Mutual Tower consists of two large centrifugal pumps, a chilled water pump, and a condenser water pump that circulate water for 33 floors of the building.
In the tower, water flow was regulated through the chiller by a hand valve to maintain a constant pressure.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0BPR/is_8_19/ai_90511122   (393 words)

  
 Wamu makes room to grow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Washington Mutual Inc. has quietly sealed its long-term commitment to downtown Seattle with a deal believed to be the largest office-lease renewal in the city's history.
Washington Mutual's renewals in the Equity Office buildings come in addition to its plans for a new 40-story building, to be developed in conjunction with the Seattle Art Museum.
The lease renewals were part of Washington Mutual's effort to maintain a presence in a cluster of buildings around the proposed tower, Equity Office said during the call.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /business/108068_wamu11.shtml   (447 words)

  
 TLPJ - Press - Consumers Sue NC's Largest Payday Lenders -- July 28, 2004
Washington Mutual Finance Group, currently pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi (Gulfport Division), unconstitutionally attempts to cap the defendants’ liability by preventing class members from opting their claims for punitive damages out of the class action settlement.
Seattle-based Washington Mutual currently operates more than 2,400 consumer banking, mortgage lending, commercial banking, consumer finance, and financial services offices in 41 states.
The suit alleges that Washington Mutual took advantage of individuals seeking the benefits of home ownership by misleading them about the value of their homes, imposing excessive and unnecessary expenses upon them, requiring them to purchase insurance they did not need as a condition of buying their homes, and charging illegally high interest rates.
www.tlpj.org /pr/baker_class_action_091604.htm   (888 words)

  
 Washington Mutual Banking   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A mutual savings bank is a financial institution chartered by state or federal government to: (1) provide a safe place for individuals to save and (2) invest those savings in mortgages loans, stocks, bonds and other securities.
Most mutual savings banks are located in the Northeast, and are owned by their depositors and borrowers.
Founded as the Washington National Building Loan and Investment Association on 25 September 1889, it made the first home mortgage loan on the West Coast four months later.
www.wwwtln.com /finance/200/washington-mutual-banking.html   (1056 words)

  
 NW Retail News, previously known as Seattle Market Update
With its $289 billion in assets, Washington Mutual is the nation's sixth-largest bank.
Washington Mutual says until the museum needs the room, it will lease out the base floors as office space.
Office towers were also acquired in Washington D.C., San Francisco and Pleasanton, Calif. as part of the $1.5 billion deal.
www.seattletimescompany.com /smu/developments/dev_winter2005.htm   (566 words)

  
 Articles - Seattle, Washington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Seattle area is still home to Boeing´s Renton narrowbody plant (where the 707, 720, 727, and 757 were assembled, and the 737 is assembled today), and Everett widebody plant (where the 747, 767, and 777 are assembled, and the upcoming 787 Dreamliner will be assembled); and BECU, formerly the Boeing Employees Credit Union.
Seattle is noted for its reliance on water traffic, with many people commuting to work from Bainbridge Island, Vashon Island, Bremerton, and Southworth via the Washington State Ferries system, which is the largest in the United States and the third largest in the world.
Harborview and the University of Washington Medical Center are both operated by the University of Washington.
www.ccomplete.com /articles/Seattle,_Washington   (2574 words)

  
 KOMO : Seattle's Falcon Family Grows Again!
Belle and Stewart, a pair of rare peregrine falcons, have been living on the 55th floor of the Washington Mutual Tower for several years.
The public can watch the birds live via a color television monitor inside the Washington Mutual's Tower Financial Center at 1201 3rd Avenue in downtown Seattle.
Washington Mutual is offering a free $500 checking account to the person who most closely guesses the time and date of the first egg hatching.
www.komotv.com /news/printstory.asp?id=4139   (160 words)

  
 All washington mutual jobs | Indeed.com
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www.indeed.com /q-Washington-Mutual-jobs.html   (289 words)

  
 Seattle Gallery
The Washington Mutual Tower is on the Southeast corner of University Street where parking can be found.
The Washington Mutual Tower is located on your left with the Brooklyn Restaurant on the corner of Second Street and University Avenue.
Friesen Gallery is directly next door to the Brooklyn Restaurant on the Plaza Level of the Washington Mutual Tower.
www.friesengallery.com /gallery/s_index.html   (576 words)

  
 WaMu Picks 2nd Tower Site In Heart Of Financial District   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Washington Mutual wants to build a second tower next to the Seattle Art Museum downtown.
The namesake Washington Mutual Tower is directly southeast of the museum.
E-mail this article Print this article Search web archive The Seattle Art Museum is expected next week to approve Washington Mutual's plan to build a new downtown office tower next door in a deal that would eventually allow the museum to triple in size.
www.webprowire.com /summaries/239929.html   (314 words)

  
 Washington Mutual News - Inbox Robot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Washington Mutual Inc., the nation's largest savings and loan, has notified 1,400 workers in Washington and...
Washington Mutual Inc. said it is cutting 1,400 jobs in Washington and Florida as part of...
Washington Mutual has told workers in Washington and Florida that they will lose their jobs as...
www.inboxrobot.com /news/WashingtonMutual   (778 words)

  
 Skyscraper City - #172 - Washington Mutual Tower, Seattle
It's not the tallest building in the Emerald City, but because of its location, height, and the way it plays with light the Washington Mutual Tower is certainly one of the most visible.
We have done a lot of major projects, have a sensitivity, with the culture the special qualities of the city, its climate, the fact that it is a city with beautiful landscapes, the water, that it is a city that cares about its future.
All in all, the tower is a good example of unity without monotony and variety without chaos.
www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=31314   (899 words)

  
 People | Sedgwick Rd.
Since taking over the agency, Jim has led the growth of the Washington Mutual brand from a Washington-only thrift to the sixth largest financial institution in the country.
Most recently he has been the chief architect of the “Tobacco Smokes You” anti-smoking campaign for the Washington State Department of Health, which has resulted in the lowest teen smoking rate in the country, the award-winning StartMayhem.com campaign for Nintendo’s GameBoy Advance SP, and the re-launches of Redhook and Tower Records, our newest client.
Recent highlights include leading the Washington Mutual Home Loans business, building it into the nation’s #1 home lender and winning Mediaweek’s “Media Plan of the Year” for the launch in New York.
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 Washington Mutual Tower   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Architecture of the Washington Mutual Tower - Seattle, Washington...
Washington Mutual Tower, Seattle, United States: It's not the tallest building in the Emerald City, but because of its location, height, and the way it...
Washington Mutual Tower was designated one of the nation's three best new...
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 Seattle Peregrine Project - Field Notes - Seattle Peregrines 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
All except the Washington Mutual Tower are on bridges.
The male is from the Washington Mutual nest (hatch year 2001) and the female (hatch year 2000) from an Oregon site on the Columbia River.
Her current mate is an unbanded adult male; probably the same bird who shared unsuccessful incubation duties last spring after the disappearance of her original mate (hatch year 2002, Washington Mutual).
www.frg.org /frg/fieldnotes/seanotes.html   (657 words)

  
 WaMu's back: with energized new management in top posts throughout the company, Washington Mutual has got its momentum ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
[??] Washington Mutual in October 2005 is a far different company than it was a year ago--especially in the Home Loans Group, where there are many new faces in the hallways.
In Washington Mutual's second-quarter 2005 earnings conference call in July, Killinger spoke of the challenges the company faced integrating numerous acquired mortgage companies into Washington Mutual's operations.
Rotella came to Washington Mutual from JP Morgan Chase, where he was the chief executive officer for Chase Home Finance and executive vice president of JP Morgan Chase.
www.allbusiness.com /periodicals/article/606278-1.html   (958 words)

  
 Journey North: Peregrine Falcon Updates
On March 11th the two falcons had returned to Washington Mutual Tower where they have in past years built a nest and hatched chicks.
And from Wesley Harness of Grass Lake Elementary in nearby Kent, Washington Our resident Peregrines--named Stewart and Belle--live on the ledge of the 56th floor of the Washington Mutual Tower building in downtown Seattle.
There is a tv monitor in the lobby of the Columbia tower where you can watch the birds and their nest.
www.learner.org /jnorth/www/critters/falcon/830198393.html   (1051 words)

  
 CRO Profile: Norman Swick - Washington Mutual
Norman Swick, chief risk officer at Washington Mutual (WaMu) – the seventh-largest bank in the US, with $247 billion in assets – is proof that banks expect very different things of their CROs.
Not so long ago, we were the sixth biggest bank in the state of Washington,” Swick comments.
The 55-storey Washington Mutual Tower, the city’s third-largest skyscraper, escaped unscathed, as did most of the newer buildings.
www.erisk.com /ResourceCenter/Viewpoint/CROProfileNormanSwick-Was.asp   (1647 words)

  
 DJC.COM: WaMu finalizes deal for new office tower, provided by Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce
SEATTLE -- Washington Mutual officials announced Thursday they bought from the Seattle Art Museum and Museum Development Authority the parcel for WaMu's new headquarters and the museum's expansion.
WaMu is building a 42-story office tower on the east half of the block between First and Second avenues at Union.
The west half of the block will consist of 12 floors of expansion space for the museum and four floors of office for Washington Mutual above the museum.
www.djc.com /news/re/11153320.html   (159 words)

  
 Architecture of the Bank of America Tower - Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Certainly the Smith Tower and Pike Place Market are more historically and culturally visible through postcards and tourist materials sent around the world.
Still, the Bank of America Tower is worthy of a significant amount of praise.
In picture post cards it is frequently the tall kid in the back of the class on the left who doesn't get noticed as much as the one in the center with the shiny teeth and good posture (Washington Mutual Tower).
www.glasssteelandstone.com /US/WA/SeattleBoAT.html   (402 words)

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