A Fight to Save a Corporate Campus Intertwined With Nature
"Protests often erupt over proposalas to demolish or even alter historical 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 corporpate campus that George H. Weyerhaeuser created for his family's timberland and wood products company beginning in the late 1960s.
Teh site, which the City of Federal Way annexed in 1994, has been lauded over the years for the pioneering way it intertwines building and landscape. Today, it is caught up in a controversy over plans to build massive warehouses that opponents say would disrupt the balance with nature but the property's new owner says are necessary to pay for restoration of hte headquarters building and maintenance of the grounds."
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