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Old Posted May 23, 2012, 7:31 PM
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Tippy top of Via 6 is starting to show in this angle. Nice view to see the action going on north of the CBD.
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Old Posted Jun 6, 2012, 5:40 PM
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New proposed SLU project:

June 6, 2012
Design meeting tonight on 2 Vulcan buildings
By JOURNAL STAFF

The city will get its first look at a proposal by Vulcan Real Estate for a pair of office and retail buildings at an early design guidance meeting tonight at 8 in the Queen Anne Community Center.


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Old Posted Jun 6, 2012, 7:26 PM
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We have about 20 tower cranes up in the CBD or within a short walk. Every freaking week something breaks ground. Every week something else is proposed. Apartments could overbuild at some point (well over 4,000 underway, mostly not highrises so not covered in this thread) but condos seem to be recovering and hotels are kicking around again. Several small office buildings are underway. Two museums are opening this year. Light rail boring to the north just completed. And we're putting a horrible freeway deep underground. This is boom #5 since the early 80s and if it goes a bit longer it could arguably be the biggest of all of them, all during a bad economy. Holy cow.
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Old Posted Jun 8, 2012, 4:14 AM
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Its official.........ground breaking next week!

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Old Posted Jun 8, 2012, 5:15 AM
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^ Great news!

Article in the Times:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...nsignia08.html
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Old Posted Jun 17, 2012, 3:53 AM
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I did a napkin count of housing projects that started 2010-2012 in greater Downtown, maybe 2000 acres. It's rivaling the 2006-2009 boom already. Not a boom by Shanghai standards but a lot for us.

Completed based on starts mostly in 2010 are about 800 units. Half lowrise and half in shorter highrises of 16 and 17 floors.

Underway or at least in demo are 4,500 units. That includes highrises of 40, 24, 24, 24, 24, 16, 13, and 10 floors totaling 2,100 units. A lot of fringe neighborhoods have a large volume of six-story projects. (This is based on the projects I'm thinking of now, which might be incomplete but is probably close.)

The 40-story project just pulled the fences all the way out and starting moving dirt last week. They have a drill rig though I don't know whether they're drilling. But fences covering sidewalks mean a real start given that it's not for overhead protection as it was a vacant lot.

There's one project in demo I'm thinking of, a nine-story half-block near the Space Needle that appears to be remediating asbestos. City records show that they nearly have a building permit and just got a dewatering permit. Seems like the preliminary stage of a real job to me. (Note: Land use permit is already in hand, aka "approval" according to some SSPers.)

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Old Posted Jun 22, 2012, 5:45 AM
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We got a section here again? Jeez I didn't even notice.

Well, now that I've spent years getting used to the Seattle section in SSC after they abandoned the original Seattle section here, I'm afraid I probably won't go here much. It's just repetitious.
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Old Posted Jun 22, 2012, 5:49 AM
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Oh I get it they've got the threads cross-referenced in different sections.

Whatever.
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Old Posted Jun 26, 2012, 4:57 AM
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Link to proposed South Lake Union Zoning Changes Presentation:

http://www.seattle.gov/DPD/cms/group...dpdp022217.pdf

Height increase to up to 240' in much of the neighborhood and up to 400' along Denny.
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Old Posted Jul 3, 2012, 3:21 AM
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Insignia (06/14):

























Via6 (06/08):























(this one is from 06/25):



The Martin (06/08):









Colman Tower (06/12):





































Coppins Well (06/10):



Viktoria Apts (06/08):



(06/10):











(06/19):





Stadium Place (06/10):

























































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Old Posted Jul 3, 2012, 5:42 AM
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Nice.

Insignia has since dug quite a big hole. Walked by today.
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Old Posted Jul 3, 2012, 6:01 AM
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Great photos!

I was really excited to see the proposed conversion of the Eitel Building at 2nd and Pike into a boutique hotel.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...5_eitel29.html
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Old Posted Jul 3, 2012, 10:49 AM
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Seattle has my favorite updates. Thank you Vashon for all of your constant hard work!
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Old Posted Jul 3, 2012, 7:35 PM
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Great updates. Seattle looking good as always...

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Old Posted Jul 27, 2012, 4:45 AM
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Colman Tower (07/13):

























Insignia (07/12):

























(a leftover sign on the site... probably was for road/utility work )









Stadium Place (07/13):























The Martin (07/12):







Via6 (07/12):

































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Old Posted Jul 28, 2012, 2:55 AM
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Vashon, I always love your updates! You have some great fog shots in this bunch.
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Old Posted Aug 15, 2012, 6:02 AM
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Amazon towers

Pretty boring stuff...........I hope the design process improves as we go forward:







http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm..._first_sk.html
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Old Posted Aug 15, 2012, 6:42 AM
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The Amazon towers don't look that bad at all. The problem with them is they are simply way too short. Why couldn't they just combine the 3 towers into 1 to create a 900-1,100ft tower? Everyone will end up remembering these as some ritzy office buildings, not an instanly identifiable Amazon HQ in downtown Seattle. On the other hand, there are very few companies today considering building a 900ft building anywhere, or even a trio of pretty signficant skyrcrapers. Even if this project could have more potential its still pretty impressive all things considering and in the times we live in.

From the above article:
"Altogether the project - the largest ever in downtown Seattle, and the largest metro campus of any tech company - may take four to eight years to complete."

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Old Posted Aug 15, 2012, 1:30 PM
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Wonderful Seattle, what a great city. I had a general construction question for the Seattle forumers. It appears that in many of the photos, the main tower crane is often at full height is there a reason why? In Chicago, invariable there are several crane jumps as the building grows. Is what I am observing only limited to buildings based on height or is it common practice? Thanks for you help, and can't wait to visit your wonderful city this month.
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Old Posted Aug 15, 2012, 3:55 PM
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Seattle has very restrictive zoning. That neighborhood is limited to 500' (or 550' for residential), and even then millions of dollars of height bonus fees are required. I'd love to see a 1,000 and a 500', or a 900' and a 600', whatever, but it's not allowed. If Amazon wanted to challenge that they'd probably win, as they represent massive economic development and job creation, but it would also take time. And maybe they like buildings of that height, which are more efficient in many ways than going taller.

We have a lot of much shorter zones within a short walk of this site...lots of 240, 125, 85, 400... We're partly through a series of increasing zoned allowable heights (next up South Lake Union) but even then there's usually a massive fee to go above the original number. We're disincentivizing exactly what we should encourage.

(ps, nergie, I'll be walking around Chicago in a couple weeks being jealous...)
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