Retaining wall construction in Ravenna

Five companies, while six records represent five company-level examples

The selected Ravenna records connect five active Washington contractors to retaining-wall construction scopes. On September 13, 2026, every detailed Seattle Services Portal record displayed a Contractor License number matching the company’s active Washington L&I license. Four companies have completed records in this slice; Van Zandt Design Build has a currently Issued permit, not a completed one. Two Build & Restore permits, 7009819-CN and 7023193-CN, describe wall and driveway work across two adjacent lots and both direct review to master permit 7009819-CN. They are two linked records, not two independent examples of company experience.

The other records document new walls with exterior stairs and a driveway, alterations with site improvements, retaining walls with associated site work, and a broadly described retaining wall. Keeping those contexts visible prevents a six-permit count from hiding the differences in access, coordination, status, and project scale.

Neighborhood-specific context

Ravine, site-work, driveway, and stair coordination in Ravenna

The neighborhood aggregate maps 3.61% steep-slope overlap, 7.38% liquefaction-prone-area overlap, and one historical known-slide event point. Seattle Parks describes the Ravenna Park landform as a drainage ravine cut through glacial till by meltwater from glacial Lake Russell. That describes the park ravine; it does not establish the subsurface conditions of every Ravenna parcel.

Several selected records combine walls with driveways, stairs, or associated site work. For comparable bids, the approved elevations, vehicle and stair loads, excavation sequence, drainage, guards or handrails, utilities, access, erosion control, and restoration need one coordinated responsibility matrix. Where two parcels or permits are involved, the scope should name the controlling permit and drawings for each lot.

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Companies in the selected Ravenna retaining wall construction records

The table shows five companies and six records while explicitly keeping the two-lot Build & Restore scope together. Registration status concerns the company; permit status concerns the historical project and should not be conflated.

Questions raised by these local records

• Are multiple permit numbers part of one project, and which master permit, approved plan set, revisions, and inspections control each parcel?
• When walls meet driveways or stairs, are elevations, loads, drainage, guards or handrails, paving, and restoration coordinated in the same documents and price?
• Does the actual address intersect a mapped ECA, liquefaction-prone area, ravine influence, or concentrated drainage path requiring site-specific review?
• Who owns temporary support, wet-weather protection, grading quantities, unsuitable soil, utility conflicts, exported material, and erosion control?
• Can each company explain its role in the cited project and provide a genuinely comparable reference without disclosing private homeowner information?

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