It is a riskier bet than most $23.25 million land deals in Seattle. But new neighbors and longtime community members are probably happy to see real progress. Africatown, again in partnership with sustainability nonprofit turned in-city housing developer Forterra, will still be part […]
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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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
Overwhelmingly, Seattle-area millennials love living here, and two-thirds say the region is on the right track. Even so, many say they may need to move to afford the life they want. This is from a newly released survey by Seattle
Progress in creating a regional and national market for cross laminated timber (CLT), an innovative building material rich in economic and environmental potential, was celebrated at a gathering of industry, design, academic, environmental and political leaders in Seattle on Nov.
An organization best known for saving large natural areas in rural areas is taking on a new task: affordable housing in the city. Forterra, formerly the Cascade Land Conservancy, is launching a new partnership to address housing issues with the
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The reaction to Mayor Ed Murray’s Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA) Committee — and the equally charged regional discussion on relaxing the Growth Management Act — could leave the impression that people are turned off by growth and either
The conservation group Forterra has offered to buy the Wayne Golf Course front nine, 50 acres along the Sammamish River in Bothell, and hold the land three years to give the city time to raise the funds to buy it
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Snohomish County and Forterra are pleased to announce the 190-acre Port Susan Farms near Stanwood is permanently conserved thanks to the purchase of a working farmland conservation easement. In 2006, lifelong dairy farmer Jeff Ellingsen, Forterra and Snohomish County began
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