GenPride is thrilled to see the construction move forward on Pride Place, where we’re partnering with Community Roots Housing to be the bottom floor community center and service provider!
Watch our progress video to see the exciting developments of the past few months:
Construction has officially started back up on Pride Place! Walsh Construction has already made a tremendous amount of progress since the end of the construction strike.
You can see the advances of the past month in the video below. We will also be posting continual updates in our Pride Place Construction Updates youtube playlist
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It was truly a triumph of teamwork, including support from more than a dozen different organizations—including Community Roots Housing, Environmental Works, Leavitt Cranes, Barnhart Crane & Rigging, Northwest Tower Crane, CEC Equipment, Seattle Blue, Yes We Can Flagging, Albrecht Birkenbuel, Inc., RDF BUILDERS CO, Swenson Say Faget, Merit Electric, Seattle DOT, King County Metro, & NW Skyview Imagery!
It’s been a successful month of construction at the Pride Place project!
We have completed the demolition of the Atlas building, and we have salvaged pieces of the landmark structures that will be part of the new Pride Place. GenPride is excited to have these pieces of history be a part of the new housing and community center.
The project has now moved on to the installation of the perimeter soldier piles.
Watch the video below for a neat 360-degree aerial view of the construction site!
Utility work will begin end of November and is scheduled to take 6 weeks to complete
Closures will begin at 7AM and Broadway will be fully re-opened at 4PM, daily Monday – Friday.
During the working hours, Broadway will be closed to standard vehicular traffic between East Pike and East Pine. Buses, Streetcar, and bike traffic will remain open during the standard day closure.
Uniform Police Officers will manage the intersections at Broadway/East Pike and Broadway/East Pine to safely detour traffic and allow local traffic through to businesses.
Access to local businesses and parking garage entry at Broadway Crossing will remain. Signage will …
SDOT and Metro have approved a full closure of Broadway between East Pike and East Pine for the installation of the onsite tower crane.
Mobile crane will be staged in the parking lot on the east side of Broadway to hoist sections of the onsite tower crane into place.
Closure will begin at 4AM and will run as late as 9PM. The goal is to have the crane installed and Broadway re-opened early to mid-afternoon, but the closure will run later if necessary.
Streetcar will not be operating that day to accommodate this closure, and Metro bus service will run until 7AM, …
Directly following our September groundbreaking ceremony, October brings a blank slate for construction!
Image courtesy of Walsh Construction
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GenPride is excited to announce the official name for our collaborative project with Community Roots Housing to build LGBTQIA+ affirming affordable housing and a community center in the heart of Capitol Hill: Pride Place!
Thank you to Capitol Hill Seattle blog for highlighting Pride Place, as well as a number of other worthwhile housing projects happening around Seattle in their article: Welcome to Pride Place, Capitol Hill — Eight stories of LGBTQ-affirming affordable senior housing ready to rise above Broadway.
Our Executive Director, Steven Knipp, affirms: “the name is …
