Sellen Construction
Specialty: Medical, office, arts and nonprofits
Management: Richard C. Redman, chairman; Robert E. Barrett, CEO; Robert P. McCleskey, president; and Scott Redman, executive vice president of business development.
Year founded: 1944
Headquarters: Seattle
2003 revenues: $186 million
Projected 2004 revenues: $230 million
Largest current project: Washington Mutual Seattle Art Museum tower
Rendering by BOE Architects Sellen Construction is building a new headquarters for Rainier Pacific Bank in Tacoma.
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Sellen Construction has two reasons to celebrate this year: the company breaks ground on the 42-story Washington Mutual Seattle Art Museum tower; and it celebrates its 60th anniversary.
The 1.75 million-square-foot WaMu tower will rise from the block bound by First and Second avenues and Union and University streets. With 890,000 rentable square feet of space, it will house offices for the bank and also work as expansion space for SAM.
To accommodate the new tenants, a six-level underground parking garage for 710 cars will be built.
Demolition of the seven-story museum plaza building on the site is expected to be completed in May.
Concrete, rebar, doors and hardware will be salvaged or recycled. A two-year construction schedule lies ahead for the team, which includes structural engineer Magnuson Klemencic & Associates, Seattle architect NBBJ and Portland-based Allied Works Architecture.
Biotech and medical appear to be the hot sectors right now, said Renee Giroux, Sellen’s marketing coordinator. But Sellen’s prospects for the near future are remodeling and tenant improvement projects.
Because of the dot-com expansion, everyone was building, but when the expansion was cut short, so were public projects, said Giroux.
But now these projects are slowly coming back. “Vacancy rates are down and tenant improvements need to be constructed,” she said.
Some recent big projects include: the $21.3 million St. Joseph Outpatient Center in Tacoma; the $10.9 million Rainier Pacific Bank Building in Tacoma; and the $3.3 million Bishop Blanchet High School Chapel, Theater and Instrumental Rehearsal Auditorium in Seattle.
Apart from a medical facility in Nevada, projects tend to stay within the Western Washington region. With a staff of 350, Sellen has no immediate expansion, contraction or merger plans.
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