Seattle-based caller ID startup Hiya has relocated to a new office in the Columbia Center, the company confirmed on Thursday to the Business Journal.
British real estate services company Savills first noted Hiya's move to the 19,064-square-foot space in its Seattle 2023 Q2 Market Report. A Hiya spokesperson said the downtown tower office replaces its space in the Harold Poll Building near Pike Place Market. Employees have been working at Columbia Center since June 1.
The spokesperson said in an email the old office was larger but "most of that was storage space that was underutilized," and the Columbia Center office "gives us more seating/desk space as our headcount grows and more meeting rooms — plus all the great amenities."
Hiya spun out of Whitepages in 2016. The company works with telecommunications companies to block fraud and spam calls on their networks. Hiya also works with businesses that want their calls labeled so consumers don't mistake them for spam.
Hiya's website says its services reach more than 400 million consumers globally. Its clients include AT&T, Samsung, T-Mobile and Penske. The company also offers a direct-to-consumer app.
LinkedIn lists 112 Seattle-area employees. In addition to Seattle, Hiya has offices in London and Budapest, Hungary.
The Savills report also noted logistics startup Flexport has leased more than 55,000 square feet at the Skyline Tower in Bellevue. Amazon previously occupied the space, but the company in November 2022 told the Business Journal it planned to unload 130,000 square feet of space in the tower.
The Savills report said the Seattle area's office availability rate hit 25% in the second quarter, up from 19.3% during the second quarter of last year. Availability in the Seattle central business district, meanwhile, hit 29%, up from 21.4% in the second quarter of last year.
"Despite the implementation of return-to-work directives by major entities such as Amazon, Meta and Microsoft, leasing volumes continue to significantly lag prepandemic levels," the report read.
