When GLY Construction expands the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center campus for the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance in Seattle’s South Lake Union, they’ll do so by using a three-level robotic parking garage, the largest in the Pacific Northwest, and one of the largest by scope and scale on the West Coast.
As part of an expansion project scheduled to open in 2022, Bellevue, Wash.-based GLY will demolish a pair of two-story buildings, and the parking lot between them, immediately west of the campus’ main cancer treatment center. A 150,000-sq-ft, six-story building, described by the Seattle office of ZGF Architects as long and narrow, will be constructed in its place, with an automated parking system in a below-grade pit under the expansion. The expansion, which will be used primarily for cancer patients and families, will include a pedestrian bridge connection to the main center.