The Hunger Solution Center is a two-building, 200,000-square-foot industrial complex located in South Seattle. Food Lifeline’s goal was to occupy one building with future expansion into the second building as their community business expands.

Realizing that a dollar spent on construction was a dollar lost toward ending hunger in Washington, the team championed a highly successful “in-kind” procurement approach that targeted a cost saving amount of $250,000 below the construction budget.

The developer provided an industrial warehouse shell and core. The facility provided unique design challenges of expanded office mezzanine, large industrial freezers and extensive volunteer and food repacking spaces. Early coordination with the shell and core builder was required to include the necessary freezer slab block outs, systems pathways and expansion capabilities to facilitate Food Lifeline's interior build-out. This early coordination saved Food Lifeline hundreds of thousands of dollars which could then be used in their tenant build-out.