April 25, 2025

BNBuilders could start HealthPoint Tukwila project this summer

Rendering via Miller Hayashi Architects [enlarge]

Miller Hayashi Architects designed the two- and three-story building.

Nonprofit healthcare provider HealthPoint hopes to break ground this summer at 3920 S. 146th St. on Phase I of its HealthPoint Tukwila Health & Wellness Center.

Plans have been brewing for well over a year for the initial clinic. (Future supportive housing will be Phase II.) Land sales came last year and in 2023.

For the first south building, on the corner of Pacific Highway South, aka Tukwila International Boulevard, the city recently deemed HealthPoint's permit application to be complete. The public comment period ends May 1.

Miller Hayashi Architects designed the two- and three-story building, to total about 63,000 square feet (including underground parking). BNBuilders is the general contractor.

HealthPoint's team also includes KPFF, civil and structural engineer; Riley Group, geotechnical engineer; Karen Kiest Landscape Architect; PAE, mechanical engineer; TFWB Engineers, electrical; Apex Engineering, civil; Wetherholt, envelope; Archecology, LEED consultant; Heffron Transportation, traffic engineer; Shiels Obletz Johnsen, owner's rep; and A3 Acoustics.

In addition to medical services, the Phase I building will include a childcare center run by the YMCA of Greater Seattle; that's to have a small outdoor play area on the quieter south side of the building.

Some level of LEED certification will sought, and the building will be substantially constructed with mass timber above its concrete basement and foundation. BNBuilders anticipates a 12-month construction schedule.

One level of underground parking is to have 31 stalls; temporary surface parking will add 27 stalls outside. Phase II will being more parking changes to the roughly 1.5-acre site, which has an L-shape. A future plaza will separate the two planned buildings; that may be a vehicular drop-off circle in the near term.

The project entails the demolition of a vacant old strip mall, apparently still standing. A budget hasn't been announced. Funding sources are to include the state and county.

The outlines for the north Phase II are still somewhat conjectural. A community center or senior center is contemplated. Supportive housing or some combination of senior housing could total around 140 affordable units. A small business incubator marketplace is possible. Early renderings depict a potentially four-story building with an L-shaped footprint, partly wrapping around Phase I.