SEATTLE | 920 Olive Way | 290 FT | 29 FLOORS

[chris08876]

Design Packet with renderings, floor/height info, allocations ect.. : http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/AppDocs/G...endaID5813.pdf

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Here's what the new towers near WSCC's expansion could look like

Expansion of the Washington State Convention Center is expected to bring in thousands of new visitors every year, but it will also bring new residents and office workers right across the street.

The $1.4 billion expansion includes some “co-development” projects: a 29-story tower with 409 apartments at 920 Olive Way; and a 16-story, 500,000-square-foot office building at 1711 Boren Ave. The towers will go on two sites north of the proposed expansion.

Pine Street Group, the development manager for WSCC, is getting the projects permitted. The sites will be sold to other developers after permits are secured.

Matt Griffin of Pine Street Group said the properties could go on the market in about a year.

A design review recommendation meeting for the office and residential towers is set for 5:30 p.m. May 17 at Seattle City Hall, 600 Fifth Ave.

Underneath the two tower blocks will be loading areas for the convention center, so the project team still has work to do to determine exactly what the office/apartment developers will be buying. The underground loading areas will take up space typically used for parking, but Griffin said the buyers of the sites could work out an agreement with WSCC to use spaces in the original convention center and the expansion.

The expansion will house about 250,000 square feet of new exhibition space, 120,000 square feet of meeting rooms, 60,000 square feet of ballroom space, 20 loading bays, and parking for about 800 vehicles.

The structure will have 11 stories above ground and two stories underground.

The goal is to begin construction on the WSCC expansion next summer and finish in 2020.

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1) http://www.djc.com/news/re/12089132.html
2) http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/AppDocs/G...endaID5813.pdf

[mSeattle]

Looks functional. Would look great as infill somewhere else besides next to a convention center expansion.