GenPride Blog

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!

• Continued daily closure of the sidewalk along the west side of Broadway will continue between 7AM – 5PM delay. Typical days this sidewalk will be re-opened by 3:30PM.
• Installation of the concrete mat footing for the tower crane will begin

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, …

Excavation of the alley will be taking place to the west of the jobsite location to expose the existing Seattle City Light below ground infrastructure. This work is taking place to locate a feasible installation location for the pre-cast concrete electrical vault that will feed temporary and permanent power to the Pride Place building. Alley will be closed from 7AM – 5PM on these days.

If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to call us. The jobsite office will be located at 907 East Pine Street, Suite #101, once the project breaks ground. Walsh Construction will send a monthly newsletter …

Directly following our September groundbreaking ceremony, October brings a blank slate for construction!

Image courtesy of Walsh Construction

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