The 27,000 square foot building is located near the old state Capitol but has been declared surplus, thanks to the major five-agency restructuring that took effect Oct. 1. Personnel was split up and merged into two different agencies.
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State asking $2.85M for old Sears building in Olympia
Brad Shannon | The Olympian
The state’s new Department of Enterprise Services is selling the former Department of Personnel building at 600 Franklin St. in downtown Olympia. Asking price: $2.85 million.
The restructuring also created Enterprise Services, and some Personnel employees in the Franklin building were relocated to the new Enterprise Services building at 1500 Jefferson St., which also is home to the new Consolidated Technology Services agency that split off from the defunct Department of Information Services.
Enterprise Services announced its plans here. Years before the state bought it in 1983 the Franklin location housed a Sears.
The agency did not say what value the building and its 119-space parking lot might have. But the real estate was among the state properties Gov. Ghris Gregoire identified as surplus in December 2010, and the agency has entered into a contract with a private real estate broker, NAI Puget Sound Properties, “to help market the building.”
The city of Olympia and Olympia School District were offered a chance to buy the property before it was offered for public sale.
