Puyallup City Hall

Tracking LEED Gold


Puyallup City Hall is a model for sustainable design and planning-renewing the city's urban core and setting a precedent for future development. A series of integrated strategies in the new building have placed environmental stewardship at the heart of Puyallup's transformation into a vibrant modern city.
Mithun's team of architects, landscape architects and urban planners championed civic programs, pedestrian connectivity and ecological functions as a single unified concept. Reaching across South Meridian from City hall, a new civic plaza, courtyard and open spaces embrace historic Pioneer Park, long considered Puyallup's town square.
Puyallup Town Hall

Ecologically Efficient


Water conservation takes center stage, as the Puyallup River watershed-an amenity vital to Puyallup's culture and livelihood-is threatened by population growth and current development practices. A demonstration green roof has 3 different levels of efficiency to show the benefit of rainwater management: standard roof, 2-inch roof and 4-inch roof. Rainwater run-off from each area flows into individual vertical cisterns exhibited on the building's facade. A sensor-controlled LED-light system displays the quantity of water in each cistern, which is then released in a visual and auditory cascade to a cistern below the plaza, providing a non-potable source for irrigation.

Puyallup City Hall is 20% more efficient than required by Washington code. The building's top sustainable features purposely engage and educate the public about their role in shaping Puyallup's smart growth future:
  • Comprehensive rainwater system
  • Demonstration green roof with vertical cistern display
  • Excellent indoor environmental quality
  • Natural daylight with monitoring and controls
  • Natural ventilation with operable windows
  • Public open space expansion
  • Sunshading
  • Transit-oriented, urban infill development
  • Underfloor aid delivery
  • Urban tree canopy renewal