The Landing
Architect: Callison Architecture
Engineer: MLK
Owner: Harvest Partners
ABC members: Ambient Control Co., Artistic Drywall Textures, Bray Bros. USA, CHG Building Systems, Commercial Insulation Services, D&S Electric, Evergreen Refrigeration, Exterior Metals, Heiberg, Kirby Electric, Lakeridge Plumbing & Mechanical, McMullen Electric, Merit Mechanical, NewStructures, Rainbow Federal, Slead Construction, Sound Glass Sales, Sunset Builders
Built on 56 acres at the south end of Lake Washington in Renton, The Landing is a modern urban village with retail, entertainment, multifamily and public spaces, as well as new roads and utility infrastructure.
Harvest Partners acquired 46 acres of the property and, working with the city of Renton and the architect on design, enlisted S.D. Deacon Corp. of Washington as the prime contractor for the $73.5 million project. Along with 24 steel and CMU big-box buildings and a four-story, post-tension parking garage, Deacon also constructed a 14-screen Regal Cinema with stadium-style seating. Building facades included brick veneer, metal siding, concrete board siding, stucco, ceramic tile, glass storefront, aluminum mesh panels and architectural colored CMU block.
A colored concrete promenade surrounding the cinema completes the heart of the project. It has landscaping, an outdoor fireplace, water feature and concrete walls that double as seating.
S.D. Deacon installed nearly 17 acres of asphalt parking lot and miles of underground electrical conduit, storm, water and sewer lines that connect to the city's infrastructure.
Because the property is located on sediment layers and import materials, one of the team's first jobs was to determine structural design criteria for the buildings. S.D. Deacon suggested using surcharge with structural pile footings and floating slab construction instead of traditional structural slab construction, saving the client $1 million. The team drove more than 1,200 grouted piles ranging from 75 to 90 feet deep over the duration of the project. The team also reused more than 80,000 cubic yards of material from the existing site, including grinding the original asphalt and using it for preload.
The project was phased into four different building zones and three different civil packages, all with different turn-over dates. In order to begin generating revenue as soon as possible, retail development within one section would open while other sections were still under construction. Coordinating the many different construction teams on the site was a constant challenge, especially since S.D. Deacon was responsible for maintaining access, power and water to all of the entities while promoting cooperative relationships.
To accommodate the extensive stormwater management requirements -- for every inch of rain, 1 million gallons of water was needed to be contained, purified and discharged -- the team excavated detention ponds through the pre-load materials in the future parking lots and sloped the entire site to drain into the ponds. While the vaults were being built, the team used a Baker Tank system, which was monitored and tested regularly by a third-party inspector. Once the ponds reached low silt and pH levels, Deacon discharged the stored water into the stormwater system.
The project was completed on time and under budget, with no injuries in the 11,128 hours worked.