May 26, 2017 General contractor: Safety 250,000-450,000 hours Exxel Pacific promotes AGC’s values of skill, integrity and responsibility with the “Pig,” an award for being 100 percent committed to safety. The award started with a simple concept: a breakfast of bacon and eggs. There are two contributors to that breakfast, the chicken [...]
May 18, 2017 Vulcan opens U District apartments By JOURNAL STAFF Vulcan's Augusta Apartments has opened at 4041 Roosevelt Way N.E. in the University District. The seven-story building has 208 units and 3,600 square feet of retail, with shared spaces such as a roof deck, courtyard, study area, fitness center and sports court. Augusta [...]
March 23, 2017 Hugo House's new home on Capitol Hill comes with a nice offer from the owners By JON SILVER Journal Staff Reporter The property owners have allowed the nonprofit writers center to occupy the old space rent-free since 1998. Now they have offered to sell Hugo House its new space for well [...]
January 19, 2017 Vulcan acquires 2 more sites in Yesler Terrace for $15.5M By BRIAN MILLER Journal staff reporter This 237-unit building is planned for Block 3 at 120 Broadway. Vulcan Real Estate announced this week it has closed on the purchase of two more blocks at Yesler Terrace from Seattle Housing Authority. [...]
December 19, 2016 Venn at Main opens in downtown Bellevue By JOURNAL STAFF Venn at Main is a mixed-use building at 10333 N.E. First St. in Bellevue. It offers 350 residential units with associated community spaces, and 25,600 square feet of street-level retail space. Parking for 592 vehicles, electric vehicle charging stations, and storage [...]
December 7, 2016 The Cannery squeezes 54 units onto a challenging site in Pioneer Square By BRIAN MILLER Journal staff reporter Building anything in Pioneer Square is difficult enough, given the small lots, watery soil, lack of developable land and historic-preservation requirements. Yet that's not stopping property owner Ron Amundson and developer Maria [...]
November 29, 2016 Atlas Workbase offers co-working space for more professional crowd By LYNN PORTER Journal Staff Reporter Tolis Dimopoulos has used co-working spaces as an attorney for startups, but he said none have been great places for doing business. That changed, Dimopoulos said, with his move to Atlas Workbase, a 20,000-square-foot co-working [...]
October 25, 2016 5 contractors honored for protecting salmon Salmon-Safe projects certified in South Lake Union include the Allen Institute for Brain Science. GLY was the contractor. Stewardship Partners and Salmon-Safe hosted Spawn South Lake Union at Tesla in South Lake Union to recognize the accomplishments of local Salmon-Safe accredited construction firms in [...]
October 21, 2016 Vulcan buys SLU site for a 25-story tower By BRIAN MILLER Ankrom Moisan is the architect for this tower at 901 Harrison. King County records a prime South Lake Union building site sold for $28.5 million to City Investors XXVIII LLC, which is affiliated with Vulcan Real Estate. The seller [...]
September 8, 2016 Vulcan Real Estate demolished an old warehouse at 1255 Harrison St. this summer so that it can build 384 apartments in three seven-story structures that will cover the entire block. Runberg Architecture Group is the designer and says the “three angled ‘cabin-like' buildings (will) create a concave backdrop to the adjacent [...]
