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December 21, 2010

Western Building to be rehabbed or demolished for tunnel project

  • Tenants have been told they must vacate the building at 619 Western Ave. by March of 2012.
    • By KATIE ZEMTSEFF
    Journal Staff Reporter

    The Western Building at 619 Western Ave. will either get a thorough structural rehab or be demolished as crews prepare to bore an almost two-mile tunnel under downtown to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct. The building's fate will likely be decided by the end of January.

    With a 57-foot diameter, the machine needed to dig the proposed tunnel would be the largest boring machine in the world.


     
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