Saxman Housing

Dawson partnered with the City of Saxman to design and build 14 units of two-bedroom affordable housing across four new buildings in this small Tlingit community just south of Ketchikan in Southeast Alaska. The $5.1 million design-build project filled a long-standing gap in the local housing market and had to move from groundbreaking to ribbon-cutting inside a single calendar year to meet a firm federal funding deadline.

The scope covered a fourplex at 2707 Bear Clan Street, a duplex at 2402 Eagle Avenue, a fourplex at 2404 Eagle Avenue directly across from the Tlingit & Haida Saxman Senior Center, and a fourplex at 300 Wolf Street. All four buildings went up on city-owned lots, with Welsh Whiteley Architects leading design and SEA Island Construction partnering with Dawson to complete two of the four structures.

Fourteen Saxman families moved into new, purpose-built homes in September 2025, followed by a community ribbon cutting in October. The project was delivered on time, on budget, and on the federal funding deadline, adding meaningful, long-term housing stock to one of Southeast Alaska's smallest cities and deepening Dawson's partnership with the City of Saxman and the surrounding Ketchikan region.