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July 28, 2025

Team selected for $1.7B Harborview expansion

By EMMA LAPWORTH
A/E Editor

Rendering via HDR [enlarge]
The northwest parking garage would be replaced with a new tower.

The long-planned $1.74 billion expansion of the Harborview Medical Center campus on First Hill has an architect and general contractor.

King County and UW Medicine announced Friday that the design-build team of Mortenson and Perkins&Will has been selected for the project.

King County owns the site and campus buildings, which are managed under contract by the University of Washington.

The multi-element expansion comprises a new inpatient medical tower; improvements to the existing hospital's infrastructure, including expansion of the emergency department; and renovations to essential hospital services and spaces in older parts of the campus.

According to a news release, the design-build team will work in close collaboration with King County and UW Medicine leadership to help move forward a plan that pulls together visual, logistical and structural elements of the expansion in a series of phases.

Ideally ground would be broken on the new medical tower in 2027/2028. The hospital will remain 100% operable during every phase of the project.

King County voters approved a $1.74 billion bond measure to fund the expansion and renovations in the fall of 2020.

Harborview opened its first building in 1931.


 

Emma Lapworth can be reached by email or by phone at (206) 622-8272.




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