Seattle, WA – November 17, 2022: 35 Stone, a five story, mass timber commercial building, broke ground on November 8, 2022, and has started construction. Located between the Wallingford and Fremont neighborhoods at Stone Way and N 36th Street, 35 Stone is part of the City of Seattle’s Living Building Pilot Program incentivizing high performance projects. It is also one component within “Campus Seattle” encompassing the entire square block which includes evo, Bouldering Project, Joule, The Whale Wins and All Together Skatepark. Campus Seattle is designed to reflect the active, outdoor lifestyle and the team’s passion for community-oriented projects.
The project is owned by evolution Projects and their local capital partners, who purchased the entitled project in 2022 as part of their Campus Seattle development. Designed by Weber Thompson, with landscape architecture by Hewitt, 35 Stone is scheduled to complete construction in mid-2024. Sellen is the General Contractor.
35 Stone offers 112,700 square feet of Class A office space, as well as 7,500 square feet of retail. The building uses a Dowel Laminated Timber (DLT) structural system and incorporates extensive curtain wall glass with numerous operable windows that promote access to daylight and fresh air.
These sustainable features speak to 35 Stone’s adherence to the strict guidelines of the City of Seattle’s Living Building Pilot Program, a rigorous green building program that incentivizes large reductions in water and energy use in addition to achieving three Petals from the Living Building Challenge. The goals of the program include the reduction of total energy use by at least 25% as well as the most challenging requirement: not using any potable water for non-potable uses (e.g., toilet flushing and irrigation). This requires an enormous 250,000-gallon cistern to store rainfall for use through our summer droughts.
“The commencement of 35 Stone’s construction marks a momentous occasion in bringing our vision of Campus Seattle to life,” states evolution Project’s Director of Design & Development Ji Shon. “As a company with deep roots in this neighborhood, we are equally excited and humbled by the opportunity to serve our community with sustainably focused development.”
“Mass timber is a natural fit to meet the needs of today’s tenants by creating a warm welcoming environment to work in,” states Weber Thompson Principal Kristen Scott. “35 Stone highlights the use of wood as a renewable resource and reduced carbon footprint, harkening back to the timber history of the neighborhood.”
Other features of 35 Stone include generous outdoor spaces at sidewalk level, robust, on-site rainwater harvesting, an interior bicycle locker room, 11 balconies and large roof terrace, an exterior stair to entice occupants to save energy, an interactive dashboard in the lobby to display real-time metrics toward water, energy and carbon goals, and a periscope along N. 36th St that provides a view into the honeybee apiary on the roof of the building.
About evolution Projects: evolution Projects is a multi-disciplinary development company with an emphasis on highly differentiated, community focused projects. Early works include adaptive reuse projects, breathing new life into old buildings that then become neighborhood focal points for community gatherings. More recently eP’s development businesses look to accomplish the same community-focused mission at a larger scale by combining old and new construction at a block/campus level.
About Weber Thompson Seattle-based Weber Thompson is a majority women-owned, full service, design firm specializing in architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture. This award-winning company has a staff of 65 design and construction professionals, housed in the celebrated Watershed, a Living Building Pilot office building in Fremont. Since 1988, Weber Thompson has developed diverse practices with projects that include high-rises, high-density urban infill, residential, commercial office, hospitality, and affordable housing projects. Weber Thompson seeks effective results through a thoughtful and collaborative design process.
About Sellen: Sellen Construction is a locally owned and operated commercial builder. Founded in 1944 and headquartered in the South Lake Union neighborhood of Seattle, Sellen builds iconic projects for the region’s tech, science, arts, health care and hospitality leaders. We believe in building community by creating unique spaces where significant things happen, and in giving back to non-profit organizations that make our community a great place in which to live and work. Sellen operates primarily in the Pacific Northwest and offers a wide range of services from preconstruction support, cost estimating and constructability services, to Virtual Design and Construction (VDC), integrated project delivery and sustainability services. Sellen’s notable projects include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Campus, several large expansions at Seattle Children’s Hospital, the Museum of History and Industry at South Lake Union, King Street Station Restoration, and the new Amazon office towers in Seattle’s Denny Triangle neighborhood.
