And the building has "reinforced concrete foundations"! Wow, sounds exotic! Just kidding... not sure if they mean something else, but "reinforced concrete foundations" might be the most commonplace thing in structural engineering. (Most foundations involve concrete, and most concrete is reinforced.) So this is a bit like saying your car has a paint job. But hey I used to be a structural engineer, and unfair ballbusting of the poor hapless journalist aside, I'm still kind of curious what feature they were actually describing.

Edit: I'll wager it's a seismic upgrade. The building's vintage is from back when they didn't have as good of a handle on the seismic stuff. And the Cascadia Subduction Zone is no joke!