FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | May 30, 2017 Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz celebrates installation of new classrooms built from innovative Cross Laminated Timber The classrooms are part of a statewide pilot project to address classroom sizes while also pioneering […]
Seattle, Wash., – May 23, 2017 – Africatown Community Land Trust (Africatown), Forterra and local developer Lake Union Partners (LUP) today announced a historic partnership for inclusive redevelopment of the southeast corner 23rd and East Union (Midtown) block in Seattle’s
Contact: Leda Chahim Government Affairs Director Forterra 206-905-6922 (office); 206-227-1433 (cell) | lchahim@forterra.org Stephanie Holmberg MVSD Capital Projects Assistant 360-428-6184 | sholmberg@mvsd320.org Governor Jay Inslee celebrates four new classrooms built from innovative Cross Laminated Timber at ribbon cutting ceremony The
SEQUIM, WA — Installation began today on a new modular classroom building made from Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) at Greywolf Elementary School. The CLT panels were created from timber sourced from the Olympic Peninsula and were manufactured in Oregon, making
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First-of-its-kind survey across King, Snohomish and Pierce counties polls nearly 1,200 young adults When it comes to naming their happy place, our Puget Sound millennials point to the outdoors and nature as most-favored destinations. That’s among the findings of a
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | April 1, 2017 😉 SEATTLE — Forterra, the Seattle-based sustainability nonprofit, has acquired the Space Needle for an undisclosed amount, thanks to a generous gift from an anonymous donor. Demolition of the Seattle icon, which has
First-of-its-kind survey across King, Snohomish and Pierce counties polls 300 millennials on the telephone; another 868 were surveyed online Much has been written about how the Puget Sound region has bucked national trends this election season. We voted for an
SEATTLE – Forterra has assisted Kitsap County’s purchase of 1,355 acres of the Port Gamble Forest Block from Pope Resources—moving one step closer to permanently protecting one of the largest lowland forests in the Hood Canal watershed. This acquisition was
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SEATTLE – On December 29, Forterra completed two land transactions spanning 376 acres along the western edge of the Cascade Mountains, 300 of these holding pristine old growth forest. The acreage represents some of the last unprotected stands of ancient
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Forterra has acquired some of the last remaining undeveloped shoreline property along Puget Sound—17.6 acres of shoreline habitat that will be added to Jacobs Point Park on picturesque Anderson Island in the South Sound. The acquisition continues
