White Center Community Building
9650 15th Avenue SW, Seattle, WA
Commercial Office Space Renovation
Prium was instrumental in working with DSHS on its office space needs in the White Center/Seattle community by purchasing and renovated a former Safeway building in White Center. The renovation to the White Center/Boulevard Park Community Building was a broad community partnership that involved DSHS, Prium, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and local government, business, faith-based, educational, non-profit and community groups.
The building houses a DSHS Multi-Service Family Resource Center and allowed the State to bring together multiple health and human services under one roof. This is a benefit in that the facility is now serving some 16,000 low-income clients in the White Center and Boulevard Park communities.
While DSHS and other state divisions occupy the building's second floor, community-based organizations that serve families and retail businesses occupy the first floor.
The development of this community resource allowed DSHS to achieve needed savings in administrative costs, especially those associated with leased office space and to integrate community services to better serve neighborhoods and families.
Overview
66,000 sf office space (2 levels)
35,000 sf top level
31,000 sf bottom level
Start Date Top Level: February 2004
Finish Date Top Level: October 2004
Start Date Bottom Level: April 2005
Finish Date Bottom Level: March 2006
Merged DSHS Burien/West Seattle Offices Move to New White Center/Boulevard Park Community Building (10.7.04)
DSHS Plans Public Dec. 16 Reception For New White Center Client Service Facility (12.3.04)
