Wiley Center

Facts:

Interior & exterior renovations, new plaza and trellis

and a new parking lot

Owner: King County Housing Authority

Contractor: Synergy Construction, Inc.

Awards:

2008 National Award of Merit in Project Design for the Wiley Center Renovation from the Pacific Northwest Regional Council of NAHRO.

2008 Excellence in Building Award from King County for the Wiley Center Renovation

Wiley Center (Boys & Girls Club):

The Jim Wiley Community Center (originally constructed in 1978-1979), received extensive interior and exterior renovations, selective demolition, structural/seismic upgrades and spatial planning modifications.

A new parking lot was constructed to serve both the Wiley Center and the future YWCA and Library. Renovations for the tenants, included the S.W. Boys and Girls Club, Neighborhood House, and a Highline Community College classroom. Adjacent to the site are two projects what were under separate, but simultaneous, permits: the Plaza and CV3 housing.

The building renovation is part of the redevelopment of the entire site, which includes over 1000 new homes. The 1940's World War II worker housing site is now redeveloped and known as Greenbridge.

Tonkin Hoyne was responsible for the Master Planning of the entire block which contains the Wiley Center, a new King County Library, a central plaza and several buildings of public housing which surround the plaza.