SEATTLE | Downtown Projects: Completed, U/C, Proposed/Approved - Page 201

Vashon118 · #**4001** Posted **Jul 26, 2015, 10:51 PM**

The Mark

Mark, The 2015-07-18 by LB Bryce, on Flickr

Vashon118 · #**4002** Posted **Jul 26, 2015, 10:54 PM**

Midtown21

Midtown21 2015-07-18 by LB Bryce, on Flickr

Vashon118 · #**4003** Posted **Jul 26, 2015, 11:03 PM**

Potala Tower

Potala Tower 2015-07-15 by LB Bryce, on Flickr

Vashon118 · #**4004** Posted **Jul 26, 2015, 11:07 PM**

Tilt 49

Tilt 49 2015-07-18 by LB Bryce, on Flickr

Vashon118 · #**4005** Posted **Jul 26, 2015, 11:11 PM**

Tower 12

Tower 12 2015-07-18 by LB Bryce, on Flickr

Vashon118 · #**4006** Posted **Jul 27, 2015, 12:06 AM**

2021 7th Ave

2021 7th Ave 2015-07-17 by LB Bryce, on Flickr

Vashon118 · #**4007** Posted **Jul 27, 2015, 12:10 AM**

2101 7th Ave

2101 7th Ave 2015-07-16 by LB Bryce, on Flickr

alki · #**4008** Posted **Jul 28, 2015, 5:14 PM**

Nice photos, Vashon. Its amazing how fast the Amazon complex is going up.

mhays · #**4009** Posted **Jul 28, 2015, 5:29 PM**

It's amazing to watch this downtown grow. It used to be that Pike and Pine were at the northern edge of Downtown proper. Soon they'll be the center point, even without considering South Lake Union.

Check out these incredible aerials on SSC (page down a little to see from the east). And imagine the nine more towers 430' to 520' that are either in early construction or site prep on the right half.

(The left or southern half is seeing a lot of construction too, including a couple major office towers, but it's not the frenzy the north end is having.)

mhays · #**4010** Posted **Jul 28, 2015, 7:10 PM**

I updated my housing projects count for greater Downtown, a fairly large zone of maybe 2,500 acres. Up to 17,600 units in this boom. That includes site prep for two jobs near First & Denny (82 units and 20 units, no parking in either) and 340 units (37 have been described as lodging) and 244 parking stalls in a 39-story tower at Second & Pine.

Counting site prep, hotels must be booming too, since the 1,264-unit Hedreen hotel is now starting to look active. They say full demo is in August and construction immediately after. The boom has been slow so far, but that would put it over 2,000 downtown rooms in this round so far.

And we're way over 7,000,000 sf of offices. I believe it's about 8,000,000 sf in this boom. By far the most in our history in one boom.

chris08876 · #**4011** Posted **Jul 28, 2015, 11:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by alki

Ever wonder what 106 projects looks like on a map of DT Seattle:

The city has come up with a cool interactive map that tracks all 106 projects under construction:

http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/shapingseattle/map.aspx

Would explain all the cranes I see on webcams. Its quite incredible. Whole blocks are essentially being redeveloped.

Urban Zombie · #**4012** Posted **Jul 29, 2015, 1:26 AM**

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Originally Posted by mhays

It's amazing to watch this downtown grow. It used to be that Pike and Pine were at the northern edge of Downtown proper. Soon they'll be the center point, even without considering South Lake Union.

Tell me about it. When I moved to China in 2004, this part of town was nothing but parking lots, used car dealerships, decrepit warehouses, crackwhores, belligerent bums (including those passed out facedown in the middle of the street shitting themselves), tweakers bartering blow jobs for $5, packs of vagrant kids, and other ills. Now we have skyscraper canyons growing out of these sites, and it appears the best is still to come. Maybe it's time for my triumphant return?

mhays · #**4013** Posted **Jul 29, 2015, 4:00 AM**

Compared to Shanghai you'll still think we're a small town. But it's getting really promising, and by some standards it's getting really busy particularly in the summer. In two years it'll be way busier still...by then a lot more of the apartment, office, and hotel wave will have opened and started to fill up. There really is a qualitative difference from one year to the next these days, in some neighborhoods especially.

As for Shanghai, I need to go there!

Urban Zombie · #**4014** Posted **Jul 29, 2015, 8:13 AM**

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Originally Posted by mhays

As for Shanghai, I need to go there!

Be sure to look me up (and Giallo) if you ever do.

mhays · #**4015** Posted **Jul 29, 2015, 1:35 PM**

Thanks, I will!

alki · #**4016** Posted **Jul 30, 2015, 3:28 AM**

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Originally Posted by mhays

It's amazing to watch this downtown grow. It used to be that Pike and Pine were at the northern edge of Downtown proper. Soon they'll be the center point, even without considering South Lake Union.

I think I mentioned before.............I sent my German friends the photo with all the cranes posted a while back. They were here 10 years ago. They were shocked at all the construction.

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Check out these incredible aerials on SSC (page down a little to see from the east). And imagine the nine more towers 430' to 520' that are either in early construction or site prep on the right half.

(The left or southern half is seeing a lot of construction too, including a couple major office towers, but it's not the frenzy the north end is having.)

Nice shots!

alki · #**4017** Posted **Jul 30, 2015, 3:31 AM**

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Originally Posted by chris08876

Would explain all the cranes I see on webcams. Its quite incredible. Whole blocks are essentially being redeveloped.

Its quite extraordinary......................and that's just DT. The boom is throughout the city.

alki · #**4018** Posted **Jul 30, 2015, 3:34 AM**

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Originally Posted by mhays

I updated my housing projects count for greater Downtown, a fairly large zone of maybe 2,500 acres. Up to 17,600 units in this boom. That includes site prep for two jobs near First & Denny (82 units and 20 units, no parking in either) and 340 units (37 have been described as lodging) and 244 parking stalls in a 39-story tower at Second & Pine.

The DT population will have to be closing in on 100K when these units get finished. I don't understand why they haven't built a supermarket yet.

mhays · #**4019** Posted **Jul 30, 2015, 3:40 AM**

Target and the IGA Kress are supermarkets on Pike between First & Third, with the Pike Place Market next door. That's about the best place in town to buy food.

The area of 70,000 that might be well over 100,000 by the end of the decade (17,600 x 1.4 would equal 94,640 if nothing else changed) has several others...LQA has Safeway, Met Market, and QFC; SLU has Whole Foods, the busiest parts of Capitol Hill have a couple QFCs I believe, the ID has Uwajmaya... Also First Hill will have a Whole Foods soon. It's not perfect coverage particularly since some of those are specialized or expensive, but between those, the many 1/3 supermarkets, and dozens of corner stores we're not doing badly.

alki · #**4020** Posted **Jul 30, 2015, 10:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by mhays

Target and the IGA Kress are supermarkets on Pike between First & Third, with the Pike Place Market next door. That's about the best place in town to buy food.

The area of 70,000 that might be well over 100,000 by the end of the decade (17,600 x 1.4 would equal 94,640 if nothing else changed) has several others...LQA has Safeway, Met Market, and QFC; SLU has Whole Foods, the busiest parts of Capitol Hill have a couple QFCs I believe, the ID has Uwajmaya... Also First Hill will have a Whole Foods soon. It's not perfect coverage particularly since some of those are specialized or expensive, but between those, the many 1/3 supermarkets, and dozens of corner stores we're not doing badly.

Yeah, I knew about those two but Target is pretty small for a supermarket and IGA Kress appears to be substandard...........but I admit I have never been inside. I am looking for a full line supermarket.

And I was talking markets in the DT area; not adjacent.