Amazon is temporarily relocating 1,800 employees from a downtown Seattle office building amid another recent surge in violence.

A series of shootings and violent crime have occurred in recent weeks in the area including enforcement officers having shot and killed a man who was allegedly attempting to drive his car into a federal building while firing a rifle. In late February, someone was shot in the face nearby.

“Given recent incidents …, we’re providing employees currently at that location with alternative office space elsewhere,” a company spokesperson said Monday. “We are hopeful that conditions will improve and that we will be able to bring employees back to this location when it is safe to do so,” said a company spokesperson.

The offer to relocates come as most workers at the Amazon office continue to work remotely because of the pandemic.