Presidential- Sweet!

Ever wonder what kind of view the President of the University of Washington gets?
Well wonder no longer folks, cause here it is:

Yup, that's SR-520 and a corner of the Husky Stadium. I bet he can see the Cascades on the right day too. Well, he will be able to, when he moves in.
These pictures were taken from the 22nd floor of the newly christened University of Washington Tower, formerly the Safeco Tower.
The building is still under construction in some places and the 22nd floor is mostly desks, chairs, and empty cubicles. The building hints at the grand company Safeco Insurance once was. Wood panels cover the walls, floor-to-ceiling windows line every floor, and the lobby has a two-story tall ceiling.

The school bought the building in September of 2006 for $130 million along with a few other properties, like the parking lot that used to house an IHOP at Northeast 44th Street and Brooklyn Avenue Northeast.

The southwest corner of the 22nd floor faces towards an complex urban landscape with crisscrossing veins of transit. The University District's Sound Transit station was to be built near the tower, but it will instead be built near Husky Stadium.

Liberty Mutual, an insurance firm based in Boston, bought locally owned Safeco Insurance in April of this year. Despite the merger, Safeco CEO Paula Reynolds said that Safeco Field will retain it's name "for some time to come" in a July 29 article in The Seattle Times.