WALLINGFORD & FREMONT - photos etc...

[Doomgoggles]

Originally Posted by BoulderGrad

But.... But... it'll block out the sun... .

Then they shall be judgmental in the shade.

[mSeattle]

These are old from the beginning of March, but I'm gonna post 'em anyway.
This area is due an update.

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by mSeattle, on Flickr

[BoulderGrad]

Anyone with a subscription know which project this is?:
http://www.djc.com/news/re/12041527.html

Stone Way replacing Stone Way Roofing Supply? Woodlawn Ave? Elsewhere?

[mhays]

West side of Woodlawn on 3600 block. Seems like less than whole block.

[BoulderGrad]

Design review docs for the Staybridge Suites on Aurora are up as well:

http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/AppDocs/G...endaID3629.pdf

[shotsy]

Not too bad. I was afraid it would look like a typical suburban motel. Could be a lot worse.

[CrazyAboutCities]

I like new apartment project on Woodland Park Ave N. It will help improve that part of Fremont big time.

I am not too crazy with Staybridge Suite designs but it is much better than what it is at right now.

[Ruffhauser]

From todays DJC.

http://www.djc.com/news/re/12046933.html

November 6, 2012

Saturn Building opens, just across the street from the Fremont rocket

The office space can be as small as 152 square feet.

By JON SILVER
Journal Staff Reporter

If you're putting up a building in a place that bills itself as the Center of the Universe, you may as well go with a celestial theme.

Developer Brian Regan, president of Equinox Properties Corp., followed that reasoning when he built a five-story, 49,000-square-foot office and retail building in Fremont that he decided to call the Saturn Building.

The address is 3417 Evanston Ave. N., across the street from the Fremont rocket.

Regan said he's planning to put a 24-foot-diameter model of the ringed planet atop his new building, which opened in September. The installation will be made of fiberglass and supported by a steel structure. He expects permitting to take another six months or so.

Regan's plans for the building date back to 2007. Financing dried up as the real estate market crashed, and that was that for a while, he said.

Regan then worked on a hotel concept for the site, but couldn't line up financing for that either. The site's industrial zoning wouldn't allow apartments.

So he returned to the original plan — a speculative office building with ground-floor retail — and finally succeeded with financing.

The building's 39,000 square feet of offices is partitioned into spaces as small as 152 square feet that appeal to solo tenants such as lawyers, psychologists, accountants and massage therapists.

Current listings start at $456 a month, including heat and electricity. Offices are equipped with operable windows, and hook-ups for a sink as well as cable and Ethernet.

Many of the walls aren't structural, which allows smaller offices to be combined into spaces up to 5,000 square feet for larger tenants such as technology companies or health-care businesses.

A number of office spaces have been leased, Regan said, and he expects it will take a year to fill. One tenant has taken half a floor.

The 10,000 square feet of ground-floor retail is fully leased, with HomeStreet Bank, Wine Tea Chocolate cafe and a bar called the Sixgill.

There are two levels of underground parking for about 90 vehicles.

Lance Mueller and Associates was the architect and Exxel Pacific was the general contractor.

Regan said he's been in the development business for 35 years. He has other buildings similar in format to the Saturn Building, including Fremont Space and Queen Anne Space.

Speculative office projects face uncertain demand, he said, and it's hard to know how deep the tenant pool will be when they are completed.

Still, “I'm looking to build quite a few more of this type of building where markets will bear it,” he said.

He declined to discuss how he selects locations.

Regan said he'd like to build other mixed-use buildings, and is considering projects in other West Coast cities.

[Matt the Engineer]

152sf for $495 a month. I love it - it's like apodments but with offices. I wonder when the neighbors will come up with emergency legislation to get these low-rent lawyers out of their neighborhood.

[CrazyAboutCities]

Lexas Cos. to build Fremont apartments

SEATTLE — Lexas Cos. of Seattle has proposed a 280-unit apartment building at 3801 Stone Way N. in Fremont, with ground-level commercial space, live-work units and 274 parking spaces.

A Seattle design review board will hold an early design guidance meeting at 8 p.m. Dec. 17 at University Heights Center, 5031 University Way N.E. Matt Driscoll of d/Arch LLC is the architect.

http://www.djc.com/news/re/12047214.html

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I don't have full access to this site. I need more information about this project. Is it full block development or what?

[BoulderGrad]

EDG docs up for the massive Stone Way project:
http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/AppDocs/G...endaID4205.pdf

Yet another little tumor building attached to the lot

[alexjonlin]

Tumor building=interesting architectural variation

[BoulderGrad]

Originally Posted by alexjonlin

Tumor building=interesting architectural variation

So's a freckle until it metasticizes and eats your liver (I think i lost the original analogy somewhere...)

[bgwah]

Originally Posted by BoulderGrad

EDG docs up for the massive Stone Way project:
http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/AppDocs/G...endaID4205.pdf

Yet another little tumor building attached to the lot

I can't tell what building(s) will survive. Just the ugly one on the corner? What about the building to its north? It looks like that lot isn't included, but I don't see it in the rendering. What about the little house to the east? It doesn't seem to be included in the "site photo" section, but also doesn't appear in the massing. Hmm.

[BoulderGrad]

Updates from the front:

-The "For Lease" sign has disappeared from the large grocer type space in the Prescott building. Anyone know of anything going in there? Bagel shop is now open.

-Demo has started at 34th and Stone Way for the satan incarnate building (will we ever see the sun again???). The old Subway is already gone.

-Also on Stone, the apartment building between 43rd and 44th is nearing completion. Exterior looks just about done (railings on balconies and painting left) and they've started work on the sidewalk.

-Smallish apartment building on Stone just north of 41st is almost done with cladding. Just needs glass on the lower floors.

[alexjonlin]

The depressing thing is that even all this development along Stone Way won't be enough to change the character of the street... That's still a couple decades of intense development off.

[SteveM]

Originally Posted by alexjonlin

The depressing thing is that even all this development along Stone Way won't be enough to change the character of the street... That's still a couple decades of intense development off.

Or more development on adjacent streets off. That whole Stone<->Aurora section is zoned for lowrise, isn't it? Would be great to get some more 4-story apartment buildings in there.

[CrazyAboutCities]

Originally Posted by BoulderGrad

Updates from the front:

-The "For Lease" sign has disappeared from the large grocer type space in the Prescott building. Anyone know of anything going in there? Bagel shop is now open.

Really??? I hope it will be Traders Joe.

[CrazyAboutCities]

2 Fremont apartment projects planned

Seattle apartment developer Harbor Urban announced plans to build two projects in Fremont with financial partner Carlyle Group.

A 171-unit complex at 3606 Woodland Park Ave. N. should break ground this spring, the companies said, and a 138-unit project at 3636 Stone Way N. is expected to start construction late this year or in early 2014.

http://seattletimes.com/html/busines...tmentsxml.html

[BoulderGrad]

3636 Stone Way is the former Stone Way Roofing Supply building. Can't find anything beyond the EDG packet:
http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/AppDocs/G...endaID3422.pdf

And in a great bit of Seattle Times research, 3606 is a smaller project that has already been completed:
http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/AppDocs/G...endaID3119.pdf


I believe they are referring to 3635 Woodland Park Ave which is this guy:
http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/AppDocs/G...endaID3802.pdf

Edit:
P.S. The site for 3400 Stone is now clear of buildings.