The Rise at 19th

The Rise at 19^th brought 64 modern apartments to Tacoma’s Hilltop, with family-friendly amenities and amazing views overlooking downtown Tacoma.

An amenity-rich facility, The Rise features a laundry room, community room, indoor play area, secure bike storage, and state-of-the-art security, plus a courtyard with BBQs, a gardening area, and a beautiful outdoor art piece titled “The Jewels,” created by Diane Hansen.

Continuing Our Hilltop Investments

The Rise at 19^th is designed to help address the public health emergency the City Council declared homelessness to be. Out of the 64 one and two-bedroom apartments, 14 units are reserved for veterans exiting homelessness, and another 14 units are reserved for people with physical disabilities.

This is one of many projects we have undertaken in the Hilltop, including the 231 affordable units in Housing Hilltop at 11th and L. All of these projects show our efforts to set high standards of environmental responsibility and design, and their presence has helped spark private investments that spread throughout the Hilltop.

These investments are especially timely as the Hilltop gentrifies. By investing, we seek to make sure the Hilltop’s blossoming is equitable and its prosperity shared. By what we build and how we build it, we seek to make the Hilltop what Tacoma Housing Authority’s mission statement seeks for every Tacoma neighborhood: a place that all people experience as “safe, vibrant, prosperous, attractive, and just.”

Project History

The Rise began as part of our Hillside Terrace public housing developments, one of 4 properties along G Street between South 15^th and South 27^th. They were built in the 1960s with 165 apartments, which THA bought in 1976. By 2000, the properties were worn out, and since then we have demolished or rebuilt all of them.

By 2019, we built back 206 apartments with community facilities, including Our Bay Terrace property between 25^th and 27^th Street. The Rise represents the last of the former Hillside Terrace properties to be revitalized.

We began construction on The Rise at 19^th in the summer of 2019. The Rise’s projected cost was $21 million to build, with most of the money coming from private sources alongside important public partners:

Architects: SMR Architects
Contractor: MarPac Construction