Archive of dead Seattle/Bellevue projects. What could have been.

[Bond James Bond]

We've got a thread dedicated to completed projects, so before I edit the dead projects out of the Seattle Development 8 thread, I thought I'd create a thread where we can archive them, and cry our eyes out over what could have been, or breathe a sigh of relief that some godawful project wasn't built.

Here she goes . . . I'll continually edit this one like the completed projects thread. I wonder which of the two will be more busy!

114 Pike
--> THREAD <--




Heron/Pagoda Towers
--> THREAD <--






2nd and Pine (Hotel 1) - Hole has been dug, project on hold for a change in status.
http://www.secondandpine.com/
--> THREAD <--




The Boylston 13(?)-story




Skygarden 22-story
--> THREAD <--




7th and Westlake - replaced by amazon.com project
http://www.seventhatwestlake.com/index.php




6th and Wall (Icon Tower)




LEGACY TOWERS - 200 106th Ave NE
--> THREAD <--




Stewart and Minor
http://www.stewartandminor.com/




1823 Minor
--> THREAD <--




1800 Terry (Terry & Powell)
--> THREAD <--




12th & Denny
--> THREAD <--




The I.D. Building
--> THREAD <--




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BELLEVUE
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European Tower 20 stories - STATUS: ON HOLD
http://www.europeantower.com




Four Bellevue Center (way in the future) 101 Meters, 24 stories

[CrazyAboutCities]

Add Icon Tower on the list. It is dead project too.

[Seasun]

I just skimmed the "Approved/proposed/on hold" category in the development thread and i honestly think almost none of these will break ground in the next 12 months or ever. Easier to just adjust the section title of that thread! or really. Just think that there's really no excavation jobs happening right now except the two Link stations - and there have been very few excavation jobs for the past year or two! Find university and healthcare jobs to put in the development thread - they're just not skyscrapers.

[CrazyAboutCities]

I thought twin condo/hotel towers on Denny, Stewart and Yale street are slated to start construction this fall? Did they postponed it too?

[Capitol Hill]

Originally Posted by CrazyAboutCities

I thought twin condo/hotel towers on Denny, Stewart and Yale street are slated to start construction this fall? Did they postponed it too?

I believe they were going for permitting. I have never heard anything regarding construction starting soon.

[mhays]

The people who know anything (on any specific project) aren't talking. Except for developers making bold projections, or sites that have actually sold where the buyer has announced their intentions. Even when a site is currently for sale (generally speaking), that might just be a hedge...doesn't mean they're selling or cancelling. I'll say no more.

[sequoias]

At least it's not midwest economy.

[Bond James Bond]

Originally Posted by mhays

The people who know anything (on any specific project) aren't talking. Except for developers making bold projections, or sites that have actually sold where the buyer has announced their intentions. Even when a site is currently for sale (generally speaking), that might just be a hedge...doesn't mean they're selling or cancelling. I'll say no more.

Well, if any of these projects get resurrected, I can always move them back into the Seattle or Bellevue threads. In the meantime, I think it's a good idea to keep the front page of those two threads from getting cluttered up with projects which probably aren't going to get built.

[bennyboo]

MAN, i was really excited when i first saw heron and pagoda towers v.v... they looked so awesome.

[just4ivaylo]

Yeah, they do look awesome. I'm not feelin' The Boylston though. Maybe it's a bad rendering, but it looks bad.

[mhays]

Render is a verb, just like draw. (I'm probably harping...apologies.)

[meku]

Your probably are, but thanks to a previous discussion on "render" vs. "rendering" I've learned when to use the proper word.

So thanks are in order to you, mhays ( I remember it was you who pointed it out before ).

[mhays]

Thanks. Correcting people is annoying to many, but presumably people want to know the basic terms of our area of interest.

[desertpunk]

Some may get resurrected as rentals. That is beginning to happen elsewhere. It's projected that luxury rents will start to soar in 2012. Good story in today's Chicago Tribune on the subject.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/classi...,4759956.story

[just4ivaylo]

Originally Posted by mhays

Thanks. Correcting people is annoying to many, but presumably people want to know the basic terms of our area of interest.

Oh, woops. Thanks for the correction.

[alexjonlin]

I remember seeing something about how quickly all the available units in each metropolitan area would go if no more came on the market, and the Seattle area's supply was one of the smallest under that metric of any area. So once everything currently under construction is done in the next couple years then fairly quickly the supply will start to run out and construction will start up again. Or maybe this is all just wishful thinking.

[mhays]

Not wishful thinking at all, in my mind. It's a guess but very reasonable.

Things will fill up when either the economy gets moving and people feel confident in housing prices, or developers choose to lower prices enough to get people off the sidelines. But whever/however things fill up, there will be another two or three years without much supply (rentals will be built sooner than condos). If the economy is strong enough during those years, occupancy could get tight, and prices could spike again.

[bbs022]

Thanks!
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[Vashon118]

I guess Colman Center can be moved to the dead list (new plan for the site is a 15 story apartment tower called Colman Tower).

[Bond James Bond]

^
I was just thinking of that.

The Photobucket pic link is dead (along with most Photobucket pictures in this section) but I added it above anyway.