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11/18/2025
If you’ve ever admired a large-scale Lewis commercial project in Seattle, there’s a good chance general foreman Lorie Tibbetts helped build it.
Over her 35-year career, Lorie and her crews have placed more than 560,000 cubic yards of concrete. That’s 2.2 billion pounds of material.
Her journey with Lewis started back in 1990 as a laborer. A friend suggested she ask a superintendent about a spot on the Second & Seneca tower project. She soon found herself helping with a concrete pour, rake in hand.
That opportunity launched a career defined by both technical expertise and the ability to build strong, close-knit crews. Ranging from six to eight people, Lorie’s team moves from job to job and handles everything from building the structures, to flagging, to final cleaning.
At Rainier Square Tower, Seattle’s second-tallest high-rise, she was involved in building the first-of-its-kind SpeedCore structure. At one point, her team pumped a specially-formulated concrete mix 850 feet above downtown Seattle. She also helped build a full-scale mockup of the structure offsite in advance.
"We’d build the plan together—subcontractors, workers, foremen—and then execute it. We made hard things look easy,” she says of her most complex assignments.
Other memorable milestones include building the Seattle Metro Logistics warehouse at Terminal 106 and the Seattle Convention Center Summit addition.
Beyond those achievements, it’s Lorie’s leadership style that she takes the most pride in. She’s not afraid to speak up.
“Sometimes you have to be the one to say the hard thing,” she says.
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08/19/2024
The 222 5th Ave. life science project team has won a 2024 Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute (CRSI) Honors Award for design and construction excellence! 🏆
Built by Lease Crutcher Lewis steps from Seattle Center, the building features steel-reinforced cast-in-place concrete placed by Crutcher Structures. It incorporates a unique seismic system with an offset shear wall core and moment frames. Designed with life-science-ready floors and long-span flat-plate slabs, the project maximizes seismic performance, vibration control, and architectural flexibility.
We extend our gratitude to our partners including Cary Kopczynski & Company - CKC Structural Engineers, Farwest Steel Corporation and Gensler. We look forward to celebrating the building's opening with you!
📷: Tim Rice
Lincoln Property Company
A complex bridge structure at the two-story Seattle Metro Logistics warehouse project in South Seattle is nearing completion.
Semi-trucks arriving on-site will reach the upper-level loading dock via an earthen ramp and concrete bridge structure. The bridge has complex geometry, with a design that includes compound slopes and angles, along with camber in the beams and girders. Crews from Crutcher Structures formed this bridge using 132 mega-shore towers ranging from 20-31 feet tall. Crews from Pacific Steel Group placed 170 tons of reinforcing bar on top of the formwork before we covered it all in 832 cubic yards of concrete.
Developed by Trammell Crow Company, Seattle Metro Logistics will be just the region’s second multistory warehouse when work wraps up this summer at the Port of Seattle's Terminal 106.
10/31/2023
The Seattle Times photographer Ellen Banner recently stopped by the Terminal 106 jobsite during steel er****on. Check out the photo below, where crews are pictured placing joists, girders, bridging, and pan decking.
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