After 40 years at Seattle Center, Crosscut will move across town

The management behind the public-media superstation chargeable for KCTS9 PBS and Crosscut has spent greater than eight years looking for a brand new place to name dwelling. 

CPM closed on its new constructing, which previously housed one other important Seattle nonprofit, Childhaven, on June 30. Firm management say it should create new and much more accessible alternatives for information manufacturing, public engagement and group occasions when employees transfer in by the tip of 2023.

The places of work will nonetheless be near downtown, but in addition to the Central District, Capitol Hill, the Worldwide District and even KCTS’s transmission tower at 18th Avenue and East Madison Road. 

“We discover ourselves in a spot that I feel is much more oriented across the sorts of communities we wish to be higher related to,” to extend engagement round subjects shaping the area, mentioned CPM CEO & President Rob Dunlop.

CPM bought the 77,412-square-foot constructing at 316 Broadway Ave. for $23 million from unique proprietor Childhaven, a nonprofit aiding space households therapeutic from trauma. Designing a brand new workplace right here, Dunlop says, is a chance to markedly replace CPM know-how from the ’80s-era, broadcast-focused studio areas on the present workplace whereas making the most of the brand new constructing’s outside areas for each occasions and manufacturing. 

In keeping with the Puget Sound Enterprise Journal, Childhaven had been trying to lease the constructing amid growing working prices. Noting that many households it serves have been compelled to maneuver out of King County, the nonprofit in the end merged with two different nonprofits, Renton Space Youth Providers and Artwork with Coronary heart, and is utilizing proceeds from the constructing sale to fund programming that helps households priced out of the Seattle space. 

CPM simply launched the general public part of a $40 million capital marketing campaign to assist convert the constructing from one stuffed with kids’s playsets and miniature bogs to information manufacturing and occasion areas. The group has raised $3.7 million thus far, with “plenty of massive requests which can be pending with foundations or main donors,” Dunlop mentioned. CPM is in search of $12.5 million on this fundraising stage, and donations made between Sept. 19 and Oct. 6 will likely be matched as much as $150,000.