<< Previous   of   Next >> (click to enlarge) Snohomish County Business Journal/JOHN WOLCOTT With foundation work completed, two giant cranes are now in place to begin the 12-story framework for the $500 million Providence Regional Medical Centers new Colby Ave. campus in north Everett. (click to enlarge) Snohomish County Business Journal/JOHN WOLCOTT The new Everett Elks Club building at Hoyt and California Avenues in downtown Everett is beginning its finishing stages. Atop the new club will be 200 condominiums. The former Elks Club, built across the street at California and Rucker Avenues in 1962, was demolished in 2007 to make room for a major new condominium development. (click to enlarge) Snohomish County Business Journal/JOHN WOLCOTT Rising on the former site of the Everett Elks Club is Skotdal Real Estates new Library Place, which will fill two-thirds of the city block, sharing the site with the Everett Public Library in the remainder of the block.

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Providence, Elks Club and Library Place make changes in downtown Everetts skyline profile

By John Wolcott

SCBJ Editor

The profile of downtown Everett’s skyline is changing with the addition of two large new condominium developments under construction downtown and a $600 million expansion of Providence hospital a few blocks to the north.

Construction began in September 2008 on what will become the new campus center for Providence Regional medical Center (PRMC), a 12-story , 368-bed tower with an expanded and upgraded emergency center, modern patient rooms and surgical facilities, due to open in 2011.

The public can watch the construction work on a webcam on the PRMC site, www.providence.org/everett.

A block west of Colby Ave., in the heart of downtown, construction of the $30 million Library Place is well along on the former Everett Elks Club site. The 200-unit residential development, a mix of condominiums, apartments and townhouses, is being built by Skotdal Real Estate. In place of the Elks building will be a two-level, 230-car parking garage, topped by three multi-story buildings for residences that will offer both mountain and Port Gardner Bay views.

The biggest building in the development will be an L-shaped structure that will rise six stories above Hoyt Avenue and eight floors above Rucker, with retail space at street level.

Opposite Library Place, the new Elks Lodge is nearly finished on the exterior, with work continuing inside on the 200 condominiums and other building features, including a smaller Elks Club.

When the buildings are completed, they will not only change the profile of the skyline but provide more downtown housing as part of creating a more vibrant downtown, along with one of the nation’s top ranked hospitals close by.