Courtesy Runberg Architecture Group [enlarge] Teutsch Partners' 74-unit apartment project at Ninth and Pine is scheduled to open in November. At a construction site at Ninth and Pine crews are finishing up a unique job: bracing for a six-story, 74-unit apartment building on a site where the downtown transit tunnel is only five to eight feet below ground. As part of the project being developed by Teutsch Partners, the project team installed trusses — similar to those seen in bridge [...]

After a successful ground-breaking ceremony at the Henry apartment project in Tacoma, we made sure to get a group photo with the ownership group and the Sierra project team. Pictured left to right: Kim Nakamura, Ward McLain, Tony Carino, Ernie Carino, Rick Basnaw, Bob Carrasco, Scott Carino, Jeff Murphy and Flask Robins.

Courtesy BCRA Construction will begin today on the first new apartment on the Tacoma waterfront in years. A group of Tacoma-area developers led by Carino & Associates are building the Henry, a seven-story, 161-unit apartment building with 10,500 square feet of retail, along the Thea Foss Waterway. BCRA is the architect and Sierra Construction is the general contractor. Scott Carino said he has known Sierra Construction President Rick Basnaw since they were 5 years old, and they were in the [...]