AKA: Century 21 Exposition, Seattle, Parking Garage, Seattle, WA; Seattle Center Parking Facility, Seattle, WA
Structure Type: built works - infrastructure - transportation structures
Designers: General Construction Company (firm); Jacobson, Norman G., and Associates, Structural Engineers (firm); Kirk, Wallace, McKinley AIA and Associates, Architects (firm); Jerry Geyer (architect); Norman G. Jacobson Sr. (structural engineer); Paul Hayden Kirk (architect); David A. McKinley Jr. (architect); Donald Sheridan Wallace (architect)
Dates: constructed 1961-1962
Building History
Seattle architectural firm, Kirk, Wallace, McKinley, AIA and Associates, designed this multi-level, above grade parking garage to be connected to the auditorium by a glazed walkway over Mercer Street. The consulting Structural Engineer for this 1500-car parking garage was the firm, Norman G. Jacobson and Associates. The garage cost approximately $2 per square foot.
Building Notes
The garage replaced a group of 19th century houses lining Nob Hill Avenue and surrounding streets within the Warren Avenue Neighborhood. The parking garage occupied a site bounded by Roy Street on the north, 3rd Avenue North on the west, Mercer Street on the south, and 4th Avenue North on the east.
PCAD id: 5970