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How much did Columbia Center cost to build?

Columbia Center is the 76-storey skyscraper of about 284 m in downtown Seattle, Washington, the tallest building in the state, developed by Martin Selig from 1982, completed on 12 January 1985 and opened on 2 March of that year. The Wikipedia infobox gives its cost as 200 million dollars, and the article reports a 120 million dollar project announced in 1980 and a 205 million dollar loan taken by the developer in 1981.

Reported project cost

$200 million

Cost basis: 1985

Columbia Center, the tallest building in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest, seen from the Smith Tower rooftop observatory to the southwest.
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Basis of the published figure

Reported project cost1985
Wikipedia

Project record

Timeline

  1. 1982

    Construction started

    Wikipedia (Columbia Center)

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