Seattle: Mid-rise projects

[SteveM]

On the Seattle development thread, mhays mentioned that it might be interesting to have a list of midrise projects underway in Seattle. There's enough going on that I'm sure this will be incomplete, but I made up a list of 4-8 story projects I could think of with some guesses as to size and status. Please feel free to correct me or add projects I don't know about:

Lake City:
Woodframe project at 130th & 30th or so (maybe senior housing? 6 stories, 80ish units?) - being framed

Northgate:
Wallace properties 5th & Northgate project (6 stories, 150 units) - foundation work?
South lot projects (6 stories, 500 units) - foundation work?

Licton Springs:
95th and Stone (6 stories, 30 units?) - framing 1st floor?

Phinney Ridge:
Fini (4 stories, 80 units?) - finishing exterior

Green Lake:
Florera (4 stories, 80 units over two phases) - phase 1 nearly done
Vitamilk project (6 stories, 200 units) - digging
Albertson's project (4 stories, 120 units) - digging

Ballard:
NoMa (6 stories, 100 units) -- nearly done
Hjarta (8 stories, 100 units) -- nearly done
Canal Station (6 stories, 250 units?) -- phase 1 nearly done, phase 2 framing?
Trammel Crow project at 15th + Market (6 stories, 200 units?) -- back to ground level after foundation?
15th & 54th project (6 stories, 50 units?) - framing nearly complete

U-District:
Lothlorien (woodframe on the Ave between 47th & 50th -- 6 stories, 100 units?) - nearly done

Wallingford:
4214 Stone (5 stories, 40 units?) - framing 2nd floor or so
QFC site (4 stories, 40 units + grocery) - work stopped
Bridge Way and Woodland Park (4 stories, 35 units?) - digging

Fremont:
Fremont Bridge-area office project (4 stories) -- foundation work?

Westlake:
Domaine (6 stories, 100 units?) -- finishing exterior
8th Ave woodframe -- don't know the name (6 stories, 50 units?) -- finishing exterior

Eastlake:
3218 Eastlake (6 stories, 20 units?) -- finishing exterior
Ruby (4 stories, 50 units) -- digging
Bar-mart (4 stories, 150 units?) -- framing 4th floor
Eastlake lofts (4 stories, 20 units) -- nearly done
Equinox (6 stories, 200 units) -- digging

Upper Queen Anne:
Kerry Park site (? stories, ? units) -- digging?
Queen Anne (& Blaine?) former gas station (4 stories, 40ish units?) -- framing

Lower Queen Anne:
Elliot office project (4 stories) -- finishing exterior?
Warren and John project (6 stories, 40 units?) -- finishing exterior
Expo 62 (6 stories, 100 units?) -- finishing exterior?
Taylor 28 (6 stories, 100 units?) -- foundation work
Aurora and John (6 stories, 80 units?) -- digging

South Lake Union:
UW medicine (5 stories) -- nearly done
Veer lofts (6 stories, 80 units?) -- framing 1st story?
Mercer & Fairview lab space (5 stories?) -- framing 1st story
Eastlake lab space near Fred Hutch (5 stories?) -- foundation work?
Group Health on Westlake (6 stories) -- nearly done
Weber-Thompson (4 stories) -- finishing exterior
Borealis (6 stories, 50 units?) -- framing 3rd story

Capitol Hill:
Bellagio (5 stories, 30 units) -- nearly done
Brix (6 stories, 150 units?) -- framing 2nd story
Boylston? & Pike (6 stories, 30 units?) -- finishing exterior
Trace Lofts (6 stories, 150 units?) -- nearly done
12th & Pine lofts (4 tall stories, 20 units?) -- nearly done
15th & John (4 stories, 30 units?) -- nearly done?
The Pearl (6 stories, 80 units?) -- foundation to ground level

Madison Valley:
Madison Lofts (4 stories, 20 units?) -- nearly done?

Belltown:
Trio (6 stories, 120 units?) -- nearly done
Moda (7 stories, 250 units?) -- framing 3rd story?
3rd & Blanchard Senior Apartments (5 stories, 50 units?) -- finishing exterior

First Hill:
Bertha Landes Apartments (7 stories, 80 units?) -- foundation work?

Upper Ranier Valley
Hiawatha & Dearborn project (4 stories, 40 units?) -- finishing exterior

I know there's more than this (I don't know the southern parts of the city or West Seattle well, and I'm sure I missed some projects in the north as well), so please point out what I've forgotten or if I have details wrong on any of these.

[citruspastels]

cool thread. i always wished this forum had a list of these projects too!

thanks for the compilation

[WESTSEATTLEGUY]

You missed West Seattle.

[CrazyAboutCities]

Please add the renderings too! Thanks!

[CityView Jim]

Nice list. And you can call Bellagio complete (on Capital Hill). Friends moved in there about 6 months ago.

[taiwanesedrummer36]

Does anyone know about the new shopping center and Bartell Drugs going up in Lake City at Lake City Way and NE 125th? I passed by that area maybe two months ago and saw a sign there advertising about the development site.

[mhays]

Great thread! What a lot of work.

In West Seattle, the block at 41st & Admiral with the housing over a QFC is digging (100 units?). Also, there's a project along Alki, probably six floors and about five or ten units.

Haller Lake has a bunch of upcoming projects and I think some might have started. This will soon be in the category of "anonymous area with very high density" -- some of these projects have hundreds of units each.

Another interesting topic is the "upcoming" category. Some of the big ones that come to mind (guessing on details):
--Othello just east of MLK: Two projects around 360 units each.
--Apartments and retail at Broadway's former QFC site: About 270 units.
--Replacement of Ballard QFC on 24th: About 270 units.
--143rd & Linden (Linden?): 500 units.
--Marginal Way & ___: 450 unit retirement.
--NW corner of 15th & Market: 200 units.
--Lake City & maybe 125th: 300 units. Might be the project referenced above.

I don't know the number of planned units in this city, but my guess is 20,000. Not bad for a city that's basically built-out already, and has very little vacant land. I'm guessing we're in excess of 8,000 units underway, or nearly 100 per square mile.

[BoulderGrad]

A couple to add:

U/C in U village (or U-district, however you want to call this area):
Whole plot of land has been cleared for a complex of two 4 story buildings containing 122 assisted living units and 103 residential units at 5101 25th ave NE just north of the U-village shopping mall

(http://web1.seattle.gov/DPD/permitst...spx?id=3003649)


Proposed for Roosevelt:

6600 Roosevelt Way: This is the site of QFC in Roosevelt. They have applied for rezoning from L3/RC to NC3-65. The proposal is for a 7 story building with a new QFC at the base, and then two 3 story buildings on the same block, much like the old Albertsons block and Vitamilk sites in Greenlake. Also, the proposed Roosevelt light rail stop is across the street on 67th, not on this property being redeveloped as I had originally thought.

6515 Brooklyn Ave: 4 story building with 42 apts, 3 live work units and retail at street level. Neighborhood asn really liked this one, and it gets rid of some really dumpy houses

The Sisley block: Whole block of abandoned houses and rising sun farms farmers market on 65th and 15th ave. Rumblings that he is trying to get rezoning so he can build an 8-10 story building. Neighborhood asn not like this, nor do they really like Sisley since most of his properties in the neighborhood are dilapidated and have a bad habit of catching fire (2 arsons, and 3 accidental fires in the last couple years). This one could take a little bit to settle. I'd be happy with a large 6 storey, maybe an 8, but 10 is just too large to fit amongst single family houses and on 2 lane streets.

Scarlet Tree Block: Burnt out hulk of the once popular restaurant is still being proposed as the site for a new 4-6 story/40 or so unit building. I hope they do something with it soon.


Greenlake Proposals:
Two 4 story buildings with a total of 55 units cady corner to the former Albertsons site

[mhays]

This must be a record: inside the Seattle city limits plus Downtown Bellevue, there are probably between 10,500 and 11,000 units under construction. That includes highrises too. I'm guessing about 1,000 Seattle units u-c in projects too small to mention here -- townhouses, small apartment buildings, etc.

[BoulderGrad]

whats the avg occupancy of a condo? Is it pretty close to 1-1 for the # of people vs the no of condos, or is it more like 1.5-2? In that case, provided we keep the same vacancy rates, are we looking at bumping Seattle's pop over the 600,000 mark some time in the next 2 years?

[Northsider]

Lots of action going on in Seattle. Some renderings would be great too!

[mhays]

I'm not sure exactly, but my understanding is that multifamily averages about 1.5, and single-family averages about 2.5. Seattle overall is around 2.0, and multifamily units now outnumber single. Downtown units probably average a bit less than other neighborhoods due to lack of kids.

[citruspastels]

helix-ellipse are cool buildings... but horrible HORRIBLE colors! SO ugly in real life. i hope they paint it something else soon.

edit- whoops that's strange, it put my post above the one i was replying to...

[citruspastels]

agreed, i was actually just talking about helix-ellipse

edit: ahh! what the heck, it keeps placing my posts in strange places!!!

[BoulderGrad]

2 brand new ones for the U-district that have already been completed are the Helix and the Ellipse that are on either side of 50th and 12th ave NE:

http://www.helix-ellipse.com/

[mhays]

Originally Posted by citruspastels

cool buildings... horrible HORRIBLE colors! SO ugly in real life. i hope they paint it something else soon.

Some of our lowrises are great looking. Nice bright colors that are neither beige nor gray. Sometimes a little brick or a lot.

[Capitol Hill]

Capitol Hill: Soon to start, old QFC block, 500 block of Broadway E.

From the Capitol Hill Times
http://www.pacificpublishingcompany....d=520820&rfi=6
The one thing pretty much everyone can agree upon is its size. The large, mixed-use project slated for the former QFC site on the 500 block of Broadway East will be, if nothing else, gigantic.

How gigantic? Consider that the structure consists of 295 apartments for a start. Plus underground parking for 357 cars. One full block of retail store fronts along Broadway. The project is larger than the recent Broadway Crossing adjacent to the Egyptian Theater, larger than the Brix development under way one block north. Far larger, even, than the highly contentious development planned for the 500 block of East Pine Street.

[citruspastels]

i'm glad they are apartments. it seems like forever since last time that block was occupied.

[BoulderGrad]

Any way this could get a sticky, and the other thread re-named to "Seattle High Rise Development?"

[SteveM]

I happened to walk past 47th & 8th NE (U-District near the highway) this morning and it looks like they've started digging on what I believe is a 6-story, 100 unit woodframe.

I'm not sure I'm excited about this project (it replaces some already pretty dense affordable housing), but it's worth tracking that it's underway.