Will Seattle retrofit (URM) buildings to make them safer in earthquakes?

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Dan Say was interviewed by KOMO TV for this informational update pertaining to the City of Seattle’s pending URM Policy. The Department of Construction and Inspections says there is a high likelihood that Seattle will experience another quake similar to the 2001 Nisqually event which damaged a large number of the city’s unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings.

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J&M Hotel Apartments / The Daily Journal of Commerce, Brian Miller / 07.09.25

Swenson Say Faget is providing structural engineering for the seismic upgrade and annex rebuild of the historic J&M Hotel Building in Pioneer Square.

SPL English Programs / The Daily Journal of Commerce, Journal Staff / 06.12.25

The Seattle Public Library (SPL) will significantly increase its free English language learning programs over the next two years, thanks to a $450,000 grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York awarded to The Seattle Public Library Foundation.

Seattle building is the first to get new cement-free concrete / The Daily Journal of Commerce, Journal, Benjamin Minnick / 04.17.25

The first batch of a new concrete that doesn’t use cement was recently poured as part of a seismic retrofit to a 120-year-old brick building in the Green Lake neighborhood. That two-story building at 7200 Woodlawn Ave. N.E. is owned by Donald Davies and will be the future home to Atlantic Crossing Pub, which is moving from the Roosevelt neighborhood.

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