Dimond Center
Re-Tenanting Project
Old Navy, Gap, Baby Gap
Anchorage, Alaska

Descriptive:

RHC converted an empty, one story, 56,000 square feet, former single tenant area into six new tenant spaces, plus an expanded common mall area. The common area plus one 12,000 square feet lease space were completely finished, while the remaining four spaces were left ready for tenant improvements. The major challenge on this project was removing the bottom 16 feet of a 120 feet long, two story high concrete wall, which was supporting loads from both the second floor and the roof. In the original construction, this tilt-up concrete wall had been part of the exterior envelope. A subsequent single story addition had left the upper portion of this tilt-up concrete wall as exterior, while the lower story of it became interior. The new tenant for this space, Old Navy, required the first story portion of this tilt-up be removed in order to accommodate their floor plan. RHC devised a method of removing this wall without temporary shoring and without evacuating the second story tenants while performing the work. RHC crews performed all demolition work, concrete work, structural steel erection, swing doors, partitions, and specialties work. We performed the work on a design-build basis.