Press Releases

Read the latest about the work we’re doing and the people and places who shape it. 

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30-Acre Land Purchase to Benefit Roslyn Community

ROSLYN, WA — Forterra, a Washington-based nonprofit, will purchase a 30-acre property in Roslyn and explore developing the property for attainable housing, park and wetland space, community parking, and/or other uses. An affiliate of the organization intends to close on the property in November 2020 and begin dialogue with the ...

Forterra Receives $2.5 Million Award to Prototype Modular Cross Laminated Timber for Attainable Housing

WASHINGTON – Enterprise Community Partners (Enterprise) and Wells Fargo named Forterra one of the six winners of the Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge, a nationwide competition that began in January 2020 to find the most innovative and scalable solutions to increase housing affordability across the U.S. The six winning organizations will ...

Town of Darrington Announces New Wood Innovation Center

DARRINGTON, WA – The Town of Darrington today announced plans to develop the Darrington Wood Innovation Center, a campus that will house and attract new wood fiber-based innovation and manufacturing companies. The Center will include companies building or manufacturing mass timber, cross laminated timber (CLT) and modular housing. “Darrington has deep ...

Forterra recognized in new Forbes opportunity zones list

SEATTLE, WA – Forbes named Washington state nonprofit, Forterra, one of the top 20 organizations nationwide committed to achieving equitable and sustainable economic growth in key opportunity zones. Forbes’ published the top 20 list on December 12 in partnership with the Sorenson Impact Center. The list recognizes 10 investors and ...

Forterra partners with The Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group to Preserve Habitat for Salmon and Orca in Kitsap County

SEATTLE, WA – The Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group and Forterra, with funding from state and federal grant sources as well as from a private loan, recently protected the 297-acre Lower Big Beef Creek property near Seabeck, preserving its salmon spawning and rearing habitat critical to recovery efforts in Hood ...

Forterra to work with Hilltop community to shape development of Rite Aid property

September 19, 2019 TACOMA, WA – Today the nonprofit organization Forterra announced that it has launched a community engagement program to shape future development of the Hilltop Rite Aid property in Tacoma. Forterra purchased the property earlier this month, following conversations with community stakeholders and Tacoma’s elected leaders about how ...
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