A few years back, Skanska won the general contractor/construction manager contract to build four elementary schools as one package with a maximum construction cost of $120 million. The contractor is now down to its final school, Terminal Park Elementary School, which it says it recently started construction on.
The Vander Hoek family has, over past decades, amassed and strategically sold its downtown Bellevue properties to apartment developers. Now a new 140-unit, eight-story residential plan by Weber Thompson has emerged at 15 103rd Ave. N.E. in Old Bellevue.
In architecture, the need to build and design sustainability is one of the highest and most talked about priorities. Perhaps less discussed is the vital role that responsible and sustainable landscaping can play in protecting and enhancing the natural environment and mitigating the effects of climate change.
An older 15-unit apartment building at 11224 Meridian Ave. N. recently sold for $5 million, according to King County records. The buyer was Prime on Meridian LLC, associated with Heaton Dainard Real Estate, which is planning a new companion building with an additional 57 units.
The Speakerlab corner, at 6220 Roosevelt Way N.E., went on the market in February, unpriced. Now there's a plan from prospective buyer StoryBuilt to redevelop.
International design and engineering firm Stantec, with offices at 720 Third Ave. in Seattle, recently completed work on the first high school in the United States to receive WELL Gold certification.
As first reported in the Puget Sound Business Journal, Kirkland-based Noble House Hotels & Resorts has filed a building and land use pre-application to build a rooftop bar and lounge at its iconic Edgewater Hotel property on Pier 67.
Don Scott, who has been in the structural engineering industry for 40 years, retired from full-time partnership at PCS Structural Solutions last month.