Tag: Downtown Seattle
Smith Tower Condos?
The Seattle Times is reporting the new owners of Seattle’s venerable Smith Tower has designs on converting it to condos. Chicago-based Walton Street Capital filed papers with the city Wednesday to begin what could be a months-long process of getting approval to redo the tower as housing. Some people seem to think it may be…
2007 State of Downtown
The Downtown Seattle Association (DSA) held its 2007 State of Downtown Economic Forum on Feb. 9th providing an overview of current and future downtown livability issues, planning and development. The forum focused on four areas of commerce – the commercial market, residential market, transportation and tourism and was highlighted by featured speakers, Chris Ludeman, CEO…
The downtown high life
Pacific Northwest Magazine (Seattle Times) had an interesting article on the state of the downtown condo market – who’s moving into downtown, reasons they’re downsizing, etc. Matt at urbnlivn.com beat me to punch on posting about it, so I’ll just link over to his post rather than duplicate coverage. By the way, I was interviewed…
1 Hotel & Residences update
2nd + Pine recently announced a name change to 1 Hotel & Residences (website). The 5000 sq ft sales center is expected to open this Spring that will feature a fully furnished model, several vignettes, a design studio and interior design visions. It will be located on the 8th Floor of the Olympic Tower Building…
Tobira Condominiums
Stylish and affordable; a combination not found around the downtown Seattle core neighborhoods much these days. While many developers have their eyes set on building new landmark towers, the Wysong group has focused on providing comfortable, well-designed, moderate priced homes for the average person. Two recent projects are the Tobira Condominiums and the Decatur. The…
Who’s the Tallest?
Fifteen Twenty-One is Seattle’s tallest planned residential tower at 440 feet, taking advantage of the city’s new zoning regulations. But now Olive 8 wants the title of tallest and is considering adding 3 additional floors making it 39-stories tall and bringing the overall height to 455 ft. The three additional floors will add another 33…
Potential Upcoming Projects
I don’t necessarily know if these are condo or apartments at this point, but given the size of the projects, I’m guessing condos. Ballard @ 22nd Ave NW & NW 56th St A 160-unit building with retail store front. Queen Anne @ Lee St & Dexter Ave N A 7 story 49-unit building with retail…
5th and Marion – Downtown Condo
Update: This condo project has been sidelined in favor of a 1/2 block office building. 5th And Marion is the newest project to be built in the financial district joining neighboring 5th & Madison and Madison Tower. Though still in early stages of development, the builder believes the project will fill a demand for housing…
Remaking Second Avenue
Second Avenue has been a mixed bag. Snuggled between Westlake Center and the Pike Place Market, Second Avenue has a reputation of being seedy with transients, a pawn shop, sex shops, etc. When 1521 (multi-million condos) was announced, there was quiet of bit of murmuring on blogs and forums about building an upscale project in…
1521 Breaks Ground
Driving through downtown today I saw a group a people in a parking lot on 2nd Avenue. My first thought was who got shot. It was the ground breaking ceremony for 1521. Escala – work recently started on the lot. Brix – the old Safeway is now being demolished. Completion date has been pushed to…
