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Galen Holden, Steven Navarro, William Jay Simpson, Marvin Stein

Active 1978-

Firm Notes

Marvin Stein established this commercial space-planning and interior design firm in 1978 in Seattle, WA.

The large interior design firm Nelson, one of the United States' five largest workplace design companies, bought Marvin Stein Associates in early 01/2016. The Daily Journal of Commerce.com said of this purchase: "Nelson has a 10-person office in Seattle that will combine with Marvin Stein's 16-person office and operate as Marvin Stein Associates, a Nelson Company. It will be headed by Marvin Stein principal Steve Navarro and Mia Marshall, a principal in Nelson's Seattle office. In January 2015, Nelson acquired Seattle-based EHS Design. Both EHS and Marvin Stein specialize in tenant improvement and interior architecture for commercial buildings in the Puget Sound region." Based in Minneapolis, Nelson's holding company NWH owned a variety of architectural, engineering and interior design offices across the US. At the time of the Marvin acquisition it had 600 employees staffing 28 offices across the country. (See Daily Journal of Commerce.com "Marvin Stein Associates is acquired by Nelson," published 01/06/2016, accessed 10/08/2021.)

The firm had an office at 2221 5th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98121, c. 2016.

In 2021, this small office was known as "Marvin Stein Associates, LLC." According to the firm's Linkedin.com webpage: "Marvin Stein Associates, LLC is a commercial interior design and space planning firm in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1978, the company continues its long standing tradition of providing efficient space planning to it's Puget Sound area clients along with creative interior design services, project management and construction administration services for all manner of commercial tenant improvements - office, retail, medical and industrial. In addition, MSA provides design services for capital improvement projects to landlords including lobby designs and other common area upgrades as well as signage design, as-built verification and documentation and leasing square footage calculations." (See Linkedin.com, "Marvin Stein Associates, LLC," accessed 10/08/2021.)

PCAD id: 4810