Owners of a historic office building, originally known as the Sandberg-Schoenfeld building that was completed in 1908 and has since been called DaVita Building, will become 1423 Pacific Ave, in downtown Tacoma, Washington with plans for a reinvention of the site. The change is fueled by decreasing demand for office space. The focus of a pre-application filed with the city in October 2022 is to convert the historic site to residential units which would include 63 units in the 11-story tower and 12 units in the building’s two-story annex.
The 63 units in the tower will have 11 foot (3.4 meter) ceilings, top of the line finishes and air conditioning. Two thirds of the tower units will have views of the mountain, Thea Foss Waterway or of Downtown Tacoma. The 12 loft style units in the two-story annex building will be large, 1,300-to-1,700 square feet (121 to 158 square meters) with 13 foot (4 meter) ceilings.
Switching from office space to residential luxury units is expected to happen quickly with the projected conversion to residential being available for lease in the summer of 2023.
The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. In more modern times, kidney dialysis services company DaVita occupied the entire 110,440-square-foot (10,260.2 square meter) building’s Class A office space. The company announced plans in 2017 to leave Tacoma for a new Federal Way campus. That move was completed In April 2021, taking approximately 500 employees with it.
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