Pacific Place

Seattle, WA

Pacific Place

At six stories tall, Pacific Place is a destination retail complex with space for over 60 upscale tenants; an 11-screen, 3,200-seat cinema with stadium seating; and five restaurants. A 10,000-ft² atrium at the heart of the structure is crowned with a beautifully-designed, full-size skylight. The retail hub also offers below-grade parking and a cantilevered cable-stayed pedestrian bridge connecting to the adjacent Nordstrom flagship store. After more than five years of planning, the finished project opened on schedule. The structure features composite floor and roof systems, shotcrete basement walls, steel braced frames, long-span floor framing for greater retail renovation flexibility, minimized beam depths in the garage that reduced excavation depth by 10 percent, and the use of transfer trusses, sloping columns and hanging framing to accommodate multiple building uses between floors. The civil design included preparation of Seattle Department of Transportation Street Improvement Plans for 1,200 ft of off-site improvements and coordination of demolition, drainage, paving, curbs, building footing, and underslab drains. The design also incorporated Pine Street Corridor LID requirements, as well as a 70-ft-high temporary shoring system coordinated with the underground METRO Transit tunnel that required existing areaways to be abandoned.