Housing projects honored

Projects built for the Bremerton and King County housing authorities are two of 18 winners of the national Award of Excellence.

Bremerton’s Bay Vista Commons Assisted Living Community won in the Program Innovation: Affordable Housing category. Rice Fergus Miller Architecture & Planning of Bremerton designed Bay Vista, including the interiors.

King County’s Nia Apartments in White Center, designed by GGLO of Seattle, won in the Project Design category.

The National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials, or NAHRO, selected the winners from a pool of 212 merit winners and 84 Award of Excellence nominations.

Bremerton Housing Authority began construction of Bay Vista in 2006. Construction was completed in 2007. The authority can accept up to 66 Medicaid-eligible residents in the project. The other six of the 72 apartments are market-rate, private-pay. Twelve units are reserved for people with dementia.

CE&C of Tacoma was general contractor on the project, which cost $8.3 million to build. Other team members were AHBL, civil and structural engineering; Hargis Engineers, electrical and mechanical; and Lauchlin R. Bethune Associates, landscape architecture.

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