Vestas, a producer of high-tech wind power systems, will move its North American sales and service headquarters into the historic Meier & Frank Depot Building in Portland’s Pearl District. Image: Vestas Wind power producer Vestas is renovating the Meier & Frank Depot building in Portland, adding an ecoroof terrace and solar array. Image: Vestas Vestas intends to maintain the historic integrity of the old Meier & Frank Depot Building’s facade in Portland’s Pearl District. Gerding Edlen Development Inc. will develop the $66-million project, which is expected to break ground this month. Vestas plans to occupy the space in early 2012.
Coast Crane Co. of Seattle filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Sept. 21, but the company has a plan to sell to New York’s Clearlake Capital Group within 90 days. The agreement will give the private investment firm substantially all of Coast Crane’s assets, subject to an auction and Bankruptcy Court approval. Photo Courtesy Coast Crane Coast Crane filed for bankruptcy on Sept. 21. The crane, forklift and equipment company serves the construction industry on the West Coast and in Alaska, Hawaii and Guam. Products are rented and sold through from its network of 14 locations, serving approximately 3,000 customer
The largest project in Seattle University history, the 120,000-sq-ft renovation and expansion of the Lemieux Library, officially opens this month. Image courtesy Mithun Mortenson Construction, Bellevue, started construction on the $34-million project in June of 2009, including renovating the decades-old, six-story building, plus seismic upgrades and renovation of the mechanical and electrical systems. Mortenson also added a three story, 33,000-sq-ft learning commons on the east side of the existing structure. “The entire contents [of the library] were moved into a temporary structure while construction took place,” says David Bonewitz, a Seattle-based project management consultant and the owner’s representative on the
During the dismantling of Gold Ray Dam, a 106-year-old timber cofferdam and 70-year-old concrete dam near Medford, Ore., the Rogue River blew through a sand spit, changing course and freeing the river�s run for the first time in over a century. Photo: River Design Group Oregon�s Gold Ray Dam is razed two weeks ahead of schedule after an unexpected breach. Photo: River Design Group Oregon�s Gold Ray Dam is razed two weeks ahead of schedule after an unexpected breach. Scott Wright, project manager for the Corvallis, Ore., office of design-build contractor River Design Group, says that the entire process actually
With the news that Facebook had surpassed 500 million users, the social networking website has decided to more than double the size of its first wholly-owned data center currently under construction in Prineville, Ore. The initial $188-million project broke ground in January and has been moving along rapidly. The expansion will add another 160,000 sq ft of shell space to the 147,000 sq ft facility now being built, with the shell space being built out later as business demand dictates. Photos courtesy Sheehan Partners Photos courtesy Sheehan Partners Photos courtesy Sheehan Partners "We are making excellent progress on the first
The Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute (CRSI) of Schaumburg, Ill., recently announced a new chairman and the addition of eight new members to its Board of Directors at its annual conference in Naples, Fla. John P. Simmet, president and CEO of Simcote Inc., St. Paul, Minn., was elected as the new chairman of CRSI. The new Midwest regional representative director is Robert Shuhert, Ambassador Steel, Auburn, Ind. The new Midwest at-large directors include Louis Colarusso, ERICO, Solon, Ohio;Keith LePage, Whitacre Engineering, Canton, Ohio; and Timothy Thomas, American Steel Fab, Pevely, Mo. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" HONORS Don Oglesby, senior
Klamath Community College has begun fast track construction of three buildings that will double the size of the 57-acre campus. Klamath Community College Health Sciences Building, Klamath Falls, Ore. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" A 16,000-sq-ft career technology center is scheduled for completion by fall 2010. The other two structures, a health sciences building and the 10,000-volume, 3,500-sq-ft Klamath County branch library will be completed in winter 2011. Total construction cost is $11 million. Reflecting the distinctive Klamath Basin setting, the structures are sited on six acres of former farmland and will create a pedestrian connection to the existing
The Seattle office of Skanska USA has secured a $114.6-million contract from the WDOT to construct the replacement of the SR 99 Viaduct from South Holgate St. to South King St. in downtown Seattle. The scope of work will replace the southern mile of the Alaskan Way Viaduct with a new side-by-side roadway that meets current earthquake standards, has wider lanes and improves mobility for people and goods south of downtown. The existing seismically vulnerable structure carries thousands of vehicles to and from downtown Seattle, two major stadiums and the Port of Seattle each day. Additionally, the resulting structure will
Rush Commercial is constructing the new LeMay/Pierce County division headquarters in Frederickson, Wash. The design/build project is comprised of an existing 42,500-sq-ft remodeled truck and equipment maintenance building and a new, two-story 15,700-sq-ft office building. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Improvements to the overall 30-acre site will include substantial civil improvements including site utilities, parking, truck wash, off-site street improvements, detention ponds and landscaping. Construction began this summer and completion is estimated in December.
Tacoma-based Rushforth Construction (AP Pacific Northwest) kicked off construction on the 85,784-sq-ft Haselwood Family YMCA in Silverdale, Wash. With completion expected next summer, the YMCA will be the first component of the 12-acre Central Kitsap Community Campus that will eventually offer many types of recreational and cultural activities. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The facility is expected to serve up to 15,000 community members with an aquatics center, wellness centers, exercise and multipurpose rooms, youth drop-in center, gym, community meeting rooms and nursery. The YMCA had planned the facility to be smaller, but a very successful fundraising campaign still