It was originally named Oregon and Washington Station, after a subsidiary line of the Union Pacific.

Located at the corner of S. Jackson Street and 4th Avenue S. in the Pioneer Square neighborhood, the station opened on May 20, 1911.

With no passenger rail service serving Seattle from Union Station, the building remained largely empty.

After nearly 30 years of sitting idle, the station finally experienced an expansive renovation supported by Nitze-Stagen with financial backing from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

Amazon.com was a major tenant of these properties from 2000[3] to 2011,[citation needed] all but one owned by Opus Northwest,[4] and the other by Vulcan.