Existing tenants include the 6,000 sf Congress Cafe and SeattleCoffee Co., which decided to concurrently upgrade its image byshutting down its Seattle's Best Coffee store and re-opening underthe banner of its higher-end subsidiary Torrefazione. It is thefifth branded café for Torrefazione, which will begin a franchisingeffort in 2002.

In the signed-but-not-yet-sealed-and-delivered pile is a1,000-sf eatery, a sundry shop and a hair salon, all of which havesigned letters of intent, says Demers. Two small deals with adrycleaner "drop shop" and maybe a florist would fill things out."Whatever is not taken, the landlord anticipates using as a fitnesscenter for tenants," he says.

Yost Grube Hall designed the public-areas remodel for EOP andBaugh Construction was the general contractor that carried out thework. Although it has not yet been announced, the new look for the361,143-sf office tower will be followed by a new name: CongressCenter.