Facebook said it will almost double its office presence in the city by moving to a 27,000-square-foot site at 1730 Minor Avenue.
A statement on the Facebook page for the company’s Seattle-based staff said: “We’re excited to announce that we’re moving to a new office space in downtown Seattle early next year. This move will give us room to keep growing as we continue hiring the best engineers we can find.”
The fast-growing web-based technology phenomenon first opened an office in Seattle in mid-2010 with just a handful of employees. That number has since swelled to several dozen, and expectations are that at least a 200-strong Facebook workforce will operate out of offices in the city before the end of next year.
Facebook’s growth since its founding in 2004 has been remarkable, and its need for office space in the US and elsewhere has expanded with its revenues and employee numbers.
In February, it announced plans to relocate its headquarters from Palo Alto in California to another site in the same state. In the same month, the company said it would soon be opening a new office in Hong Kong, having already done so in Singapore, with the aim of expanding its presence as a business and a brand in Asia.
Editor’s notes: As of July 2023, Facebook were no longer in occupation at 1730 Minor Avenue, also known as Met Park East, and there were 17 office suites available to rent at the property totalling 249,644 square feet.
Flex space operator WeWork had offered flexible office space and workspace solutions over 7 floors of the 20-storey building for a period; however, as of July 2023, it no longer did.
In 2021, it was announced that Facebook had agreed on a pre-lease deal to rent office space in the Spring District development in Bellevue, Washington, which is close to Seattle. The deal secured Block 5, which is an 11-story, 345,000-square-foot office building scheduled to open in 2023.
In October 2021, the Facebook company rebranded as Meta, while the original social media platform retained the Facebook name.
In August 2026, it was reported that Meta planned to continue offering more office space for sublease in the Bellevue market that was surplus to its requirements.
Meta also went through multiple rounds of layoffs in 2023 and 2026 as the company shifted its focus to AI, shrinking its regional headcount to 5,600.
Meta planned to occupy seven buildings in the Spring District development in the Bellevue district, but after revealing in August 2026 that it would back out of the 212,000-square-foot Block 13, it has offered three of those seven buildings to the market for sublease.
As of September 2026, CBRE was marketing 60,186 square feet at Met Park East, 1730 Minor Avenue, for sublease.
The head lease was due to expire on July 31, 2027. It was not confirmed which tenant CBRE represented.