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A well-known Seattle real estate development company, Benaroya Co, has purchased the former Microchip Technology campus on Puyallup's South Hill for a fraction of its original asking price.
According to Puyallup officials, Benaroya plans to redevelop the 92-acre tech campus as a mixed use business park and residential development.
Microchip Technology bought the campus and its 10 buildings with 710,000 square feet of space in 2000 intending to revive computer wafer production at the facility.
But Microchip instead expanded at a plant in Gresham, Ore., and left the Puyallup campus vacant.
The Chandler, Ariz., company put the campus on the market in 2003 for $93 million. According to Pierce County property records, Benaroya paid $30 million for the site and buildings off 39th Avenue SE.
Built originally in the '80s by Fairchild Semiconductor Corp, the plant once employed some 800 workers producing microchips. The plant went through several ownerships including that of Schlumberger Ltd of France, National Semiconductor, Matsushita of Japan and Microchip.
Matsushita had planned to reopen the plant after it acquired it, but never got production really rolling after it spend some $220 million re-equiping the plant.
Benaroya owns high tech industrial parks and office structures throughout the Puget Sound area.
Among those properties are Benaroya Business Parks in Fife and in Sumner.
The Benaroya family started in the real estate development business in Seattle in 1956. In 1984, the family sold its entire portfolio of properties intending to devotes its energy to philanthropy and venture capital funding.
Seattle's Benaroya Hall, home of the Seattle Symphony, is named after the family. Like the Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason Medical Center bears the family name.
The company reentered the real estate business in 1995.
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