DBM Begins Shoring Downtown Condominium

Job Location: Ninth Avenue and Virginia Street, Seattle, WA

Project Owner: Continental Properties

Project Description: DBM Contractors Inc. recently began installing temporary shoring and permanent foundation support for The Cosmopolitan, a 33-story tower at Ninth Avenue and Virginia Street in Seattle. The shoring is being done on a very tight (120 foot by 120 foot) downtown site and includes 59 cantilevered soldier piles with timber lagging and 117 drilled shafts. The shoring will be completed in early June.

The $100 million Cosmopolitan is a 33-story mixed-use building that will house 250 condominiums. The project is being developed by Continental Properties of Bellevue. Mithun is the architect and Mortenson is the general contractor. he project is scheduled to open in early 2007.  

Other current DBM projects include two tunnel extension projects for Sound Transit, The Venetian Phantom Theatre in Las Vegas, Nev., the 1900 SW Morrison civic redevelopment in Portland, Ore., and the Cal Trans DOT Headquarters in Sacramento, Calif.

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