Late last year we reported that Seattle chef Tom Douglas was looking at opening a restaurant in the heart of Amazon's new headquarters campus in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood. Now Douglas is making it official — and he's planning to open more than one eatery.

Douglas will open new restaurants in the Terry Avenue Building, which will sit between two Amazon office towers. The chef isn't saying how many restaurants yet — or revealing their names — but expects them to open in mid-2011.

Paul Allen's Vulcan Inc. is building the new Amazon campus, which will eventually include 11 buildings totaling 1.7 million square feet of office space and 100,000 square feet of street-level retail in South Lake Union. The first batch of Amazon employees is due to start moving into the complex in April or May of this year, and the entire project is scheduled to be finished in 2013

Amazon currently occupies the PacMed building on Beacon Hill and other office space across Seattle.

The Terry Avenue Building that will house the new Tom Douglas restaurants is a two-story brick warehouse on Terry Avenue North between Harrison and Thomas Streets. Originally built in 1915, it was designated a historic landmark in 2008 and is undergoing a rehab as part of the new Amazon campus.

Douglas, in a statement, said South Lake Union is "an area full of exciting new opportunities for us that we couldn't pass up." Here's the full announcement (pdf, 2 pages).

Scoring Douglas is a coup for Vulcan, which is trying to fill the retail part of the Amazon campus. Douglas' other Seattle restaurants include Dahlia Lounge, Lola, and Etta's. The chef has a connection to Amazon, having teamed up with the online retail giant on a line of private-label kitchen products.

Here's a rendering of what the post-rehab Terry Avenue Building will look like, courtesy of Vulcan:

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