Pride Place Construction Updates
It’s been a successful month of construction at the Pride Place project. Select demolition of the two landmark structures being salvaged, as well as the full demolition of the Atlas building, was successfully completed. The project is now underway into the installation of the perimeter soldier piles.
Monday, December 13, 2021 – Crane goes up!
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 the week of the 8th
- Excavation of the concrete storm detention vault and the elevator mat footing will begin mid-November and continue through the end of month.
Tuesday, November 30th, 2021 – Installation of Storm Main & Utility Tie-Ins in Broadway
- 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 direct vehicles to access the parking lot on the east side of Broadway from northbound Broadway, coming from East Pike. Signage will be posted to indicate that local businesses are open during construction.
Saturday, November 20th, 2021 – Installation of Tower Crane
- 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, after which the routes will detour around this stretch of road.
- Broadway will be fully closed to through traffic, including bike lanes, northbound and southbound vehicular/bus/streetcar traffic, and pedestrian traffic at the east and west sidewalks. Access will be maintained to all local businesses during this time for pedestrian foot traffic. Access to the businesses on the east side of Broadway will be from East Pike, and access to businesses on the west side of Broadway will be from East Pine.
- 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.
Wednesday, November 17 – 18th, 2021 – Seattle City Light Exploration in Alley
- 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 (contact info listed on the left side of this page). 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 out to the surrounding neighborhood with a summary of upcoming scopes of work and potential neighborhood impacts.
We appreciate your cooperation and your support for this exciting new addition to the Capitol Hill Community.
New Construction!
Directly following our September groundbreaking ceremony, October brings a blank slate for construction!
Images courtesy of Walsh Construction Co.
