Consultant Marks Anniversary

CLC Associates, a 110-person engineering, architecture, planning, landscape architecture, and surveying firm, celebrated its 20th anniversary at the end of the year. Originally founded in December, 1984, the firm has continually expanded its offerings and geographic coverage and now operates full-service offices in four locations: Spokane, Denver, Phoenix and Salt Lake City. CLC initially began as a surveying firm and added civil engineering within the first year of its existence. The firm's services were quickly expanded with the addition of planning and landscape architecture services and, subsequently, the addition of architecture services in 1994 through a merger with MH Architects. While the firm maintained only one office for the first 15 years, it quickly expanded with the acquisition of an existing Spokane engineering firm in 1999, the opening of a Salt Lake City office in 2001, and, more recently, the addition of the Phoenix office in 2004. Throughout its history, CLC has focused primarily on the retail and commercial development markets.

Office Building Completed

The 10,500-sq.- ft. Hilderbrand office building was completed in November 2004. Designed by renowned architect Cutler Anderson Design, this building integrates both structural components and architectural features. The structure utilizes exposed clear fir framing with over 75 percent of the exterior elevation composed of glass, including a clear story window on every elevation. The building also includes a two-story cast in place concrete core area for the lobby, restrooms and the elevator. All concrete work is colored with cedar form liner. Construction cost on the building was $1.45 million. General contractor was MRJ Constructors.

W&H Pacific Opens New Office

W&H Pacific expands into Southwest Washington with the opening of its new office in Olympia. The Thurston County office comes just one month after the company launched a new office in Spokane and brings the total of W&H Pacific's offices in Washington to four-Bothell and Sumner already being established.

W&H Pacific Olympia will be led by Susan Rants, director of land development services. Beginning with a staff of five, the office will continue to grow, keeping pace with project demand.

The office was just awarded a project by the City of Port Townsend to add a signal at Howard Street and Sims Way (SR20), and to extend Howard 1/4 mile north to Discovery Road-making Howard Street a two-lane commercial arterial with curb/gutter, sidewalk, and planters. Commercial growth is driving the need for the improvements. For Pierce County Parks Department, the office will widen 128th Street East and add curb/gutter and sidewalk as part of frontage improvements for the Heritage Recreation Center at South Hill. Scott Sawyer, PE, director of transportation services, is managing both projects. Susan Rants is leading an LID feasibility study for road improvement projects in the City of Covington, as well as two site civil projects in the Lacey area: a 28-acre light industrial parcel in Meridian Campus and a 40-acre master plan for a corporate headquarters.