Denny Triangle Projects

[Ruffhauser]

Fifth Avenue data center

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[benleis]

I'd love to know how they managed to get approval for a building with almost no windows and cinder block sides. I've been walking past that one and watching in sadness for weeks now. The only decent win here is the new sidewalk and the awning.

Ben

[alexjonlin]

Strange... but it looks like there will be retail on the ground floor?

[benleis]

Originally Posted by alexjonlin

Strange... but it looks like there will be retail on the ground floor?

The original sloped floor is still in place on the first two floors as far I could see so it looks like it will remain parking.

Ben

[meku]

Yea this is pretty sad. It belongs in the sticks, with the rest of the data centers.

[mhays]

It's a good sign....Downtown has good data infrastructure and a lot of companies that want to use it.

[LCIII]

It's better than what was there previously.

[Rogue Linguist]

But to the average person on the street....

[RMacherat]

Our grandkids will look at it and wonder if we still had outhouses back then (now.) 'Imagine putting that thing right there, and so HUGE, Good Gawd!'

[mSeattle]

They should have allowed for the data center to be taller so that the streetfront part of the building could be office or something else human-occupied.
Maybe it'll look better at night.

[LCIII]

I could have sworn it was supposed to have ground floor retail based on the limited documentation we found about the project.

[Ruffhauser]

The parking garage just to the north of this (5th and Virginia) is funky in the sense that it has ground floor street retail, and nice retail too; G.E.M Jewelry store and 5th Avenue Barber Shop

[Ruffhauser]

Originally Posted by Ruffhauser

This project is almost going into the "I'll believe it when I see dirt move" file.

From August 2011

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Well, looks like this "project " has changed its name yet again.
Now it will call itself "Hill7".


Whatever; just move some goddamn dirt already.





From todays DJC.

http://www.djc.com/news/re/12048359.html

December 20, 2012

Real Estate Buzz: Touchstone buys land for office/hotel project

By NAT LEVY
Real Estate Reporter

During the holidays things usually slow down a little at work, but Touchstone Corp. has been busy this month.

The company acquired two parcels this week where it plans to build a hotel and office complex. The project was called Boren One but the name has been changed to Hill7.

Property records show the company paid a combined $13.4 million for the two pieces, which are currently Diamond Parking lots on the eastern half of the block bound by Boren and Terry avenues, and Stewart and Howell streets. Touchstone now owns all but one parcel on the half block.

A-P Hurd, vice president at Touchstone, declined to comment on the project.

Touchstone plans an 11-story office building on the northern portion of the site with 300,000 square feet of space designed for tech tenants, and a 14-story Hilton Garden Inn with 222 rooms on the southern portion. There will be underground parking for 335 vehicles.

The Seattle office of Aedas is designing the office building, and Johnson Braund is the architect for the hotel. Other team members are Swift & Co. Landscape Architects and Magnusson Klemencic.

A design review board recommended the city approve the project this month.

But Touchstone may not be done. We reported earlier this year that the company has an option to buy the Goodyear property across the street. Hurd also declined to comment on this, but Douglas Howe of Touchstone told the DJC in August: “After the first of the year, it will become apparent what we may, or may not do with the property.”

[mSeattle]

No matter how many times they change the name..., with this design, it'll still be the "Boring One" to me.

[BoulderGrad]

Borg Cube

[CityView Jim]

Originally Posted by mSeattle

No matter how many times they change the name..., with this design, it'll still be the "Boring One" to me.

At least it hides that ugly office-turned-storage building backside if the block.

[D Green]

It's meh. But they are maximizing their space at least.

[Ruffhauser]

I think this is more of a LQA project, but the DJC is calling it a Denny Triangle project, so..........



From todays DJC.

http://www.djc.com/news/co/12048531.html

December 28, 2012

Denny Triangle apartments out of the ground
By JOURNAL STAFF

Construction of a $70 million apartment building at 101 Taylor Ave. N. in Seattle's Denny Triangle has reached ground level. The 259-unit project is being developed by Pillar Properties, the apartment division of R.D. Merrill Co., and SRM Development.

When finished in the summer of 2014, the 10-story cast-in-place concrete building will have 54 studios, 154 one-bedrooms, 34 two-bedrooms and 16 townhomes. Apartments will range from 575 to nearly 1,100 square feet.

There also will be 3,583 square feet of ground-floor retail, 281 underground parking stalls, a rooftop deck with a dog run and barbecue area, a fitness center, theater and lounge.

Spokane-based SRM is the contractor and Runberg Architecture Group is the architect. The Diamond family, which owns parking lots in the city and part of the development site, is the equity partner. Bank of America is the lender.

[DawgFan]

That enclave bordered by Seattle Center/5th Ave on the west, Broad to the north, 99 to the east, and Denny to the south should have it's own name. There's a nice critical mass of housing being developed in that area.

[Capitol Hill]

Originally Posted by DawgFan

That enclave bordered by Seattle Center/5th Ave on the west, Broad to the north, 99 to the east, and Denny to the south should have it's own name. There's a nice critical mass of housing being developed in that area.

I suggested NoMoMo a while back. Short for No More Motels.