Alaska Power & Telephone Co. has announced it is designating its offices in Ketchikan as its new corporate headquarters — moving the nameplate from Washington state — the first time it will be headquartered in Alaska.
AP&T's current headquarters are in Port Townsend, Washington.
"We're not picking up jobs and moving them out of state (out of Washington) at this time," AP&T spokesman Jason Custer said March 19. "We're mostly just designating Ketchikan as our new headquarters. We'll eventually be selling the building in Washington. ... We don't have a lot of folks who are out-of-state, currently."
Of AP&T's 167 employees, said Custer, "most" live in Alaska, and those who live in Washington will work remotely after the Washington offices are sold.
According to the announcement, AP&T was considering "numerous" potential locations across the state for its Alaska headquarters. It picked Ketchikan in part due to advocacy from local leaders.
The announcement also points out that Ketchikan is "central to many of AP&T's service areas" and "is a convenient two-hour flight from Seattle's airport and business community."
AP&T provides power or telecommunication services to most southern Southeast Alaska communities, including Ketchikan, Metlakatla, Wrangell, Petersburg and Hyder, as well as to several communities on Prince of Wales Island, according to the company's website.
The nearly 70-year-old company also offers services in Juneau, Haines and Skagway and in many Interior Alaska communities as far north as Bettles and Evansville north of the Arctic Circle.
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