Recently Completed Projects
Washington State Convention Center Addition
PCC worked with Pine Street Group, LLC as its Outreach Manager. In this role, PCC worked directly with small and minority, women, veteran, and disadvantaged business enterprise firms.
About the Project
Washington State Convention Center (WSCC), which changed its name to Seattle Convention Center in April 2022, is completing construction on The WSCC Addition. This transformative project will provide a host of economic benefits, including as much as $260 million annually in visitor spending. WSCC has a strong, voluntary commitment to partnering with WMBE businesses. These companies are critical to making the WSCC Addition a success.
Project Successes
Project Successes
The Washington State Convention Center is expanding, and will open its second facility—called Summit—in 2023. Summit will be located just one block northeast of the current convention center, and together will create a rich, thriving corridor of visitors and tourism in Seattle.
Capitol Hill Housing's Liberty Bank Housing Project
PCC worked with Capitol Hill Housing and Walsh Construction as its Outreach Manager. In this role, PCC worked directly with small and minority, women, veteran, and disadvantaged business enterprise firms. This project is located at 24th and Union in the Central District.
Project Successes
Project Successes
The Liberty Bank Building is a new way of creating a community hub for a neighborhood.
The project partners honored the legacy of Liberty Bank not only in design, but also by creating affordable space for local businesses and fostering community for residents in the neighborhood.
BBC Research/Port of Seattle Disparity Study
PCC conducted work with BBC Research and Consulting on the Port of Seattle's disparity study pertaining to airport concessions. The study aims to asses how women-and-minority-owned businesses are faring in the marketplace and as part of the concessions program at SeaTac International Airport.
About the Project
Learn about the Port of Seattle's Disparity Study and see the completed report.
Project Successes
Project Successes
The Port of Seattle created a Diversity in Contracting Annual Report in 2019, summarizing the work the that Port of Seattle is doing to level the playing field for DBEs.
Colette Holt & Associates, WSDOT/FAA DBE Program Disparity Study
PCC worked with Colette Holt and Associates as part of the study team conducting the WSDOT/FAA DBE Program Disparity Study. The study period is from 2014-2016.
Project Successes
Project Successes
You can read the completed Disparity Study Report from 2019 (and the earlier report from 2017) on the WSDOT Office of Equal Opportunity website.
Sound Transit Tacoma Dome Link Extension Project
About the Project
PCC is working with HDR Engineering on Sound Transit's final extension needed to complete light rail service between Tacoma and Seattle, Washington. The project will alleviate severely congested roadways in the South Sound corridor of I-5. As the Diversity Manager for the project, PCC is assisting small, MDVBE businesses.
Our role on the project:
Regina Glenn, DBE/SBE Manager
Michigan Public Health Institute/Sound Transit
About the Project
Sound Transit contracted with the MPHI Center For Culturally Responsive Engagement (MPHI CCRE) to
develop a deeper understanding of the needs of people without housing, homes, or shelter and people in crisis
in King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties, by building
community partnerships, assessing the needs, and creating policies/procedures that take into account passengers, transit employees (in-house and contracted), transit property and facilities, and transit agency-managed environments.
Our role on the project:
Regina Glenn, Diversity Outreach Consultant
The scope of work for this project will involve assisting Sound Transit to identify needs for communities of focus (people in crisis and people without housing, homes or shelter) to ensure the transit system is physically and psychologically safe for all people. The work will include partnering with organizations such as yours, to ensure comprehensive representation from these communities.
The Spring District
About the Project
The Spring District will feature 26-new buildings with 5.3 million square feet devoted to office, retail, housing, dining, transit, and a future hotel.
As a mission-driven nonprofit, BRIDGE’s goal is to strengthen communities and improve people’s lives, beginning—but not ending—with affordable housing. Since it was founded in 1983, BRIDGE has participated in the development of more than 18,000 homes in California, Oregon and Washington. For more information, visit www.bridgehousing.com.
Our role on the project:
Regina Glenn, Diversity Outreach Consultant
The urban Bellevue neighborhood is centrally-located, transit oriented, hyper-connected community that promises to be buzzing with activity. The Spring District will feature 26-new buildings with 5.3 million square feet devoted to office, retail, housing, dining, transit, and a future hotel.
You can learn more about the development here.
Cedar Falls Substation
About the Project
In collaboration with Q-EPC, PCC is the outreach Consultant Seattle City Light's substation construction at Cedar Falls. This $10 million project will expand the facilities at Cedar Falls.
Our role on the project:
Regina Glenn, Diversity Outreach Consultant
Located in east King County in the Cascade Mountains, the Cedar Falls Hydroelectric Project was City Light's first hydroelectric plant built to light the streets of Seattle. It was also the nation's first municipally owned hydroelectric project. Started in 1902, it was finally completed in 1914 and included the Masonry Dam, penstocks, powerhouse, and a company town. The Masonry Dam that creates the Chester Morse Reservoir is used for power generation while also providing about 70% of the domestic water supply to the Seattle metropolitan area of approximately 1.4 million people. Water flow from the reservoir is also managed to provide favorable in-stream flow conditions for salmon and steelhead reproduction.