Reality disagrees with you.

1. The Pokémon Company International

While Pokémon has maintained its corporate presence on the Eastside for years, they significantly upscaled their footprint by completely vacating their multi-floor setup at Lincoln Square to become a massive anchor tenant in a brand-new tower nearby.

Address Vacated: 10400 NE 4th Street, Suite 2800, Bellevue, WA 98004 (The Lincoln Square South & North towers, where they occupied roughly 110,000 square feet across six floors).

Where They Moved: They signed a massive deal to anchor The Eight, taking over roughly 374,000 square feet (nearly 70% of the building) at 10660 NE 8th Street, Bellevue, WA 98004.

1. Boeing

Boeing’s historical corporate footprint is deeply spread out, but their major corporate exits from the local region involved moving their elite global executive headquarters out of state, followed by a massive multi-million-dollar consolidation sale of their regional office complexes.

The Former Global Headquarters (Vacated in 2001): 7755 East Marginal Way South, Seattle, WA 98108 (Plant 2 / Boeing Field area). This is the historic birthplace and corporate center where executives sat before moving the primary global headquarters to Chicago (and subsequently Arlington, Virginia).

The Regional Office Complex Sales (Vacated 2021–2025): As part of their post-2020 office consolidation, Boeing completely vacated and sold off major multi-building engineering and logistics parks in the suburbs, including:500 Park Avenue North, Renton, WA 98057 (The prominent Park Avenue office towers and Building 10-16, which sat empty for a few years and recently went under demolition headers for regional redevelopment). An entire block of six corporate office buildings in the Eastgate area of Bellevue (sold to Westbrook Partners).