Seahawks to get new headquarters

KIRKLAND — The Seahawks will be in new digs come 2008, as plans to build a 120,000-square foot facility have been confirmed.

The new headquarters will be on land owned by Seahawks owner Paul Allen along the Renton waterfront. An official announcement about the new facility is expected in the coming days.

The Renton facility will be almost three times larger in square feet than the current headquarters in Kirkland. And it will be privately financed by Allen, with groundbreaking set for October of this year.

Training camp will also move to Renton, but the team will spend this summer and next summer at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, where the Seahawks have had camp since 1997.

The new headquarters will also feature an indoor practice facility. The team uses an inflatable bubble dome as its indoor practice area during inclement weather.

The team has operated out of Kirkland, adjacent to Northwest University, since June of 1986.

While team officials confirmed that the team will have new headquarters, the team had no further comment today.