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Skanska USA to Develop Tower Joining Cultural, Financial Core of Downtown Seattle with Waterfront

Construction Superintendent Magazine

recently announced it has reached agreement with the Samis Foundation to lease and develop all of its downtown Seattle property located east to west between Second and First Avenue and north to south between University and Seneca Streets in Seattle, Washington. Skanska USA Commercial Development Inc. frontpage'

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Bullitt Foundation says Living Building Challenge can only be met after code change

BD+C

The 50,000 sf Bullitt Center in Seattle is being constructed to be the greenest, most energy-efficient commercial building in the world, and meet the ambitious goals of the Living Building Challenge. “We read more.

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3 affordable housing projects that serve as social catalysts

BD+C

Eleven million people in this country are paying more than half of their income for rent, and these are low-income people,” says Richard Burns, CEO of the NHP Foundation, a national not-for-profit provider of affordable housing. It gets worse. Housing is Fundamental “Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing.

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After Five Years, Bullitt Center Gets Nod for Rainwater-to-Potable Water System

ENR Construction

Five and a half years after the opening of Seattle's super-sustainable Bullitt Center speculative office building, the Washington State Dept. of Health has given the Bullitt Foundation the green light to flip the switch on its treatment system that turns rainwater into potable water.

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Excavation Completed for Ranier Square Tower in Seattle

ENR Construction

Late in July, crews completed the up-to-85-ft-deep excavation for the 850-ft-tall Rainier Square Tower after workers installed a secant pile foundation wall, supported laterally under the neighboring 514-ft-tall high-rise by eight rows of 262 drilled tieback anchors.

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Rethinking Housing Design in 2023 

Pro Builder

we designed an affordable multifamily project called Broadway for Firm Foundation Community Housing that is currently in production at Factory OS , a local modular facility. that will provide a permanent supportive housing development for veterans by Firm Foundation Community Housing. For instance, in Vallejo, Calif.,

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Open Borders

Business Facilities

Seattle and Vancouver, both burgeoning high-tech hubs, are engaged in an intense competition for the expansion dollars now being spent by tech giants like Microsoft who have long called the region home. Alleviating congested traffic between Vancouver and Seattle also is on the to-do list for CIC proponents. Canada border).

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