Ninth & Jefferson Building
Seattle, WA

The Harborview Ninth & Jefferson Building is the third project Wright Runstad & Company is developing for King County using the 63-20 non-profit/private/public partnership model. This 14-story, approximately 440,000 square foot building is positioned on the easterly crest of the hill along Ninth Avenue, and will signal the gateway to the Harborview Campus. The building will provide medical office space for Harborview’s expansion of outpatient clinics plus offices for a small number of King County agencies.

The building design includes a below grade 640 space parking garage, a three floor podium with full block coverage, a partial fourth floor mechanical floor serving specialty use spaces on floors one through three, and a tower from floor five through 13, set-back from both Ninth and Terry Avenues. The front lobby entrance is located on Jefferson Street, facing west towards Ninth Avenue. The pedestrian scaled podium and the set back of the lobby are designed to respect and compliment the existing campus buildings and the new IEB. This set back of the base structure at the corner of Ninth Avenue and Jefferson Street, allows the streetscape to be the primary interface with the community, reducing building scale at the street level and creating a safe and active public space. Additionally, retail spaces will wrap around the building along James Street to the north, Ninth Avenue to the west and at the corner of Terry Avenue and Jefferson Street.

The building exterior is a combination of classic “Harborview” brick at the base, punched window openings and granite columns at street level. A glass curtain wall along with metal panels, metal grilles and granite are woven together to enclose the tower. The building design includes flexible efficient floors with a structural grid system designed for medical use at 32 x 34 feet. Specialty features and extra size built into the loading dock will allow the dock to serve the entire Harborview Medical Center campus through a connection tunnel under Jefferson Street.

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