The new federal office building is located at 2021 Fourth Ave. N and is spread over 111,000 square-feet. The five-storey building has a sandstone-coloured exterior. Included in the new office building project is a separate warehouse and storage yard located at the southern end of South 27th Street. The building will also feature extensive landscaping, including trees of honey locust, Canada red cherry, lindens crimson pygmy barberry; Peking cotoneasters and fragrant sumac shrubs; and Foerster reed grass. A pedestrian crosswalk will be installed in March 2013.
The new office building will house workers from the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation, the Office of the Field Solicitor, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians.
The Boyer Co. of Salt Lake City is constructing the building and will lease it back to GSA for at least 20 years. Boyer hired Langlas & Associates of Billings as its chief local contractor. Two other companies, Collaborative Design Architects and Sanderson Stewart, an engineering firm, are also working on the project.
Construction for the project began in January 2012. The project was earlier planned for completion by summer, but GSA now hopes to occupy the building in late spring.
