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Multi-Modal/Cancer Center/Resort
ZGF is designing a world class cancer center.
Port Project to ImproveMulti-Modal Transportation
Seattle - Ground was broken recently on a Duwamish area transportation project that will improve freight mobility and business access through the industrial area near the Port of Seattle. as well as offer safety and convenience advantages.
When completed in late 2009, the project will eliminate traffic delays on East Marginal Way caused by trains crossing at grade level.
The project is part of FAST Corridor, a freight-mobility and traffic enhancement program with elements stretching from Tacoma to Everett. It consists primarily of projects that raise roadways above at-grade rail crossings, allowing trains, trucks and cars to move more effectively and efficiently.
The $20 million construction cost of the project is funded by a coalition of public and private partners including: the Port of Seattle, City of Seattle, Washington State Department of Transportation, Puget Sound Regional Council, the Washington State Freight Mobility Strategic Investment Board, the Washington State Transportation Improvement Board, and the Federal Highway Administration, BNSF Railway Company and the Union Pacific Railroad.
Cancer Center in Design Phase
Seattle - Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP (ZGF), in conjunction with Miller Dyer Spears (MDS), a Boston-based architectural and planning firm, will oversee The Yawkey Center for Cancer Care center’s design and development. ZGF is the design architect and MDS is the associate architect. Walsh Brothers, Incorporated of Boston is the construction manager for the project, located in Boston.
The Yawkey Center for Cancer Care will house many of Dana-Farber’s adult clinical services, as well as translational research areas and patient and family services. The 275,000-sq-ft 13-story building, to be constructed at 450 Brookline Avenue in the heart of Dana-Farber’s campus, will include 100 exam rooms, 150 infusion beds, and a new welcoming and patient-friendly front entrance.
With occupancy anticipated in 2011, the Cancer Center will seek a Silver LEED rating from the U.S. Green Building Council.
Water Resort Enters Final Phases
Centralia - Great Wolf Resorts, Inc. and Absher Construction celebrated the “topping out” recently of Great Wolf Lodge, a more than 440,000-sq ft northwoods-themed indoor waterpark resort under construction in Grand Mound, Wash. More than 800 tons of structural steel have been put up in under three months of work at the resort.
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