Region: West

Kent, Washington is a vibrant and growing city located in the congested Tacoma/Seattle corridor. The city developed around three geographic regions: The Valley, East Hill and West Hill neighborhoods. The Valley is home to Kent’s downtown and commercial warehouse districts, while many residents live on the hills flanking the valley. State Route 167, a busy […]

Since the 1950s, the Alaskan Way Viaduct and Battery Street Tunnel have carried traffic through downtown Seattle, Washington. The viaduct is an elevated roadway running directly along the Seattle waterfront, and is connected to Aurora Avenue and points north via the Battery Street Tunnel. Together, the two structures carried State Route 99 through Seattle and […]

Yellowstone cutthroat trout are an important species in southeastern Idaho, both now and historically, and the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes are working to protect them by improving river habitat throughout the Fort Hall Indian Reservation—one of the last remaining strongholds for the species. The tribes contracted with GeoEngineers to perform a geomorphic and ecological assessment of four […]

Like many growing cities, Spokane, Washington is prioritizing pedestrian access through walkable corridors as it continues to develop and modernize its downtown neighborhoods. One of these neighborhoods is the University District, bordering downtown Spokane to the east, and home of the Spokane branches of Washington State University, Eastern Washington University, University of Washington and Gonzaga […]

The historic Pepsi Pavilion building in Portland was completed in 1940 as a state-of-the-art bottling plant. In more recent years Pepsi Co. used the iconic arched-roof building for office space and as a warehouse, but no longer. The 4.97-acre Pepsi Blocks were purchased by Security Properties to be redeveloped as part of a masterplan for […]

Tillamook County Creamery Association (Tillamook) is well-known throughout the Pacific Northwest as a maker of premium cheeses, ice cream and other dairy products. Their headquarters and main production facility is in Tillamook, Oregon, in the heart of a seismic zone atop unstable soils. In 2016, Tillamook began a complete redevelopment of their visitor center and […]

The Historic Columbia River Highway was one of the country’s first purposefully built scenic routes. Samuel Hill, a leading advocate for transportation in the Pacific Northwest in the early part of the 20th Century, imagined a road bringing the era’s Model T drivers to the natural beauty of Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge. In 1922 the […]

Illabot Creek is a tributary of the Skagit River system in Skagit County, Washington. Like many rivers, the creek’s historic alignment was heavily modified from its natural state. What was once a meandering natural stream and alluvial fan had been straightened into an artificial channel to flow beneath a single bridge on Rockport-Cascade Road during […]

The City of Salem, Oregon is building a new 110,000-square-foot police department building. GeoEngineers is helping to make it happen. The new 3-story structure will house all the city’s police units and include an elevated parking deck for patrol cars. Located in the city center near the Willamette River, the project site was settled early […]

Yesler Terrace is a 30-acre low-income housing community located on the southern slope of First Hill in Seattle, Washington. Built in the early 1940s, it was the first publicly subsidized housing community in Washington and the first racially integrated public housing development in the United States. Regrading programs that the City of Seattle conducted around […]