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April 21, 2016

UW Medicine expanding SLU campus

Images by Perkins + Will [enlarge]
A skybridge would connect the new building with an existing UW Medicine building.

University of Washington School of Medicine is proceeding with its plan to expand in South Lake Union.

Architect Perkins + Will was scheduled to show the updated plan last night for a $143 million biomedical research building at 500 Dexter Ave. N.

to a Seattle design review board for its recommendations.

The new structure would be an eight-story, 164,000-square-foot building with 139,000 square feet of office and research labs, and 25,000 square feet of research and outpatient clinic space.

A skybridge would connect the new building with an existing UW Medicine building next door, and they would share an existing 231-stall underground parking garage.

The new project, known as Phase 3.2, would be the second of three UW Medicine buildings planned for the block bounded by Dexter, Mercer Street, Eighth Avenue North and Republican Street.

The seven-story UW building, known as Phase 3.1, and the garage were completed in 2013.

Both the phase 3.1 and 3.2 buildings received master use permits in 2010.

Last night's design meeting was to approve revisions to earlier plans. For example, the proposed building height has been changed from 113.5 feet to 109.5 feet, and the primary facade length has been changed from 212 feet to 233.4 feet.

The nonprofit National Development Council is UW Medicine's financing partner. The project's public-private model combines the low cost of tax-exempt bond financing with the use of a private-sector development team.

In addition to Perkins + Will, the team includes the developer, Vulcan Real Estate, and Sellen Construction as the general contractor.

A third research building, Phase 3.3, is planned for a site just north of the neighboring buildings.

Earlier phases of the research campus included renovation of the former Washington Energy Building completed in 2004. By 2008 three more buildings were completed on the same block, located just east of the Phase 3 projects.




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