home
 
ESD 105

ESD 105 starts work on new facility

Groundbreaking began in January on a new building anticipated to open this July that will significantly expand the services and staffing needs at ESD 105.

The upcoming facility is being built on what had been the agency’s parking lot at the corner of Yakima’s 2nd Avenue and Walnut Street. The new, two-story structure will include a multi-purpose room more than twice the size of the largest meeting room at the ESD 105 Conference Center, as well as relocated offices for several of the agency’s departments.  

Manufacturing on the modules for the new building began in November by Guerdon Enterprises in Boise, Idaho.  Those modules will be transported to Yakima and set up during March. 

The finished structure will be directly south of the ESD 105 Conference Center that opened in 1992.  The exterior will echo the red brick design features of the 1926 former Union Pacific Railroad terminal that ESD 105 acquired in 1977 as its main facility (located at the opposite side of the agency’s 2nd Avenue property). 

At 32,046 square feet, the new building will more than double the agency’s existing service space.  Anticipated construction cost of the new addition is $3,844,128.      

“We have had a space deficit for some time,” says ESD 105 chief financial officer Dave Curry, noting that the agency started looking at a facilities expansion back in 2005, and that rented facilities have had to be used for some staff.  “We’re building this to grow, as well, so we can expand our services.  This should satisfy our space needs for 2020 and beyond.”