Lewis has performed more than 14 years of ongoing projects at Seattle’s top “lifestyle” retail center. Currently, Lewis is building a new four-story building for a single confidential retailer. The largest projects have involved major new parking garages that each include multi-level retail along one frontage. Other work has included smaller new buildings and remodels, plus tenant improvements such as J.Crew, Blue C Sushi, Eileen Fisher, Tommy Bahama, Fiorini Sports, Bartell Drug, Mud Bay Granary, Mailboxes, Etc., Storables, Pottery Barn Kids, Mercer, Market Optical, and Bright Horizons.
Lewis built a new 280,000 square foot office building with four levels of below-grade parking with 400 spaces. The difficult historic shoreline site included old foundations, debris from the Great Seattle Fire, and a high water table, which the team addressed with an innovative Cutter Soil Mix (CSM) shoring wall. Lewis completed the project two months ahead of schedule, while working between two historic buildings in Pioneer Square. In other Starbucks work, Lewis has built out approximately 700,000 square feet of the company’s headquarters at historic Starbucks Center.
Lewis extensively restored and updated this high school, a Seattle landmark since 1923. Work at the main school building included restoration of the existing historic fade, seismic upgrades, and a reconfigured interior. New construction included an athletic and performing arts center with the addition of the 597 seat Quincy Jones Auditorium. This project has won several awards including the AGC of Washington’s Grand Award in 2009 and NAIOP of Washington’s “Public Project of the Year”.
This 28-story, 520,000 rentable square foot office tower achieved LEED CS Gold (quickly, with no follow-up questions, aided by 13 credits Lewis helped find). The building is structural steel with a concrete core, and features 480 parking spaces both below-grade and on floors 2 and 3. Core construction set a record for cycle time for a Peri system, often just three days per cycle on floors 14-28.
Lewis’ recent and current Amazon work totals 1.5 million square feet of headquarters offices. Projects include the twin-tower 810,000 square foot Troy Block buildout currently underway (while another Lewis team builds the buildings for a developer), a 263,000 square foot adaptive reuse at 1915 Terry. Smaller projects range from building conversions to ongoing “Day-2” upgrades of existing spaces. Additional work includes 362,000 square feet that comprises “Phase 1” of the current headquarters.