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News | Puget Sound Business Journal

A joint venture of Hunt Construction Group and Skanska will build the $1.4 billion expansion of the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, the project manager said Thursday. Skanska-Hunt beat out two other finalists, joint ventures made up of Mortenson and PCL, and Lease Crutcher Lewis and Clark Construction Group...

News | MyNorthwest.com

The Washington State Convention Center's expansion is being viewed as an opportunity to connect some of Seattle's "most dense and vibrant neighborhoods." Preliminary designs for the expansion were shown during a public meeting May 19, where people got to see one of the project's design...

News | Puget Sound Business Journal

The first images of the Washington State Convention Center expansion are out, and design nerds aren't going to like them. But relax, everyone. This is not what the buildings will ultimately look like. This is according to Matt Griffin, managing partner of Seattle real estate company Pine Street Group, which is helping oversee the $1.4 billion convention center expansion...

News | Puget Sound Business Journal

Washington State Convention Center officials on Monday said that a team made up of LMN Architects, GGN and SHoP is the "apparent successful submitter" in the competition to design a major expansion of the center in downtown Seattle. Subject to completion of contract negotiations, Seattle-based LMN will lead the team as the prime architect. GGN (Gustafson Guthrie Nichol), also of Seattle, will be the urban designer and landscape architect. And New York City-based SHoP (the firm's name appears to be a collection of the first letters of the founding principals' names) will be a resource for co-development planning, center officials said in a press release...