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Old Posted Nov 19, 2014, 9:02 PM
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There's no comprehensive skyline view. A newspaper did a horrible job of it recently that didn't even consider height (huh?). Every sizeable project goes through design review including views from various angles, but these aren't aggregated.

The worst parking lot zone historically has been owned by Clise for generations. That's probably the area you're referring to. Four city blocks have been taken by Amazon for new office towers, of which two blocks are under construction so far. Amazon has options or right of first refusal on additional properties from the same owner. The same mostly blank area, including land owned by others, has had five apartment or condo towers break ground since 2011, and more are planned.

I heard Amazon's real estate guy speak yesterday, and he said they'd have 10,000,000 sf of Seattle HQ office by 2019. He also said that they have about 20,000 HQ employees, 20% of their current staff walks to work, and future growth will merit another 6,000 apartments in that neighborhood by 2019. None of these are surprising, but they're still amazong numbers for what one company can do to one side of anybody's downtown. Plus all the hotel rooms and services they need, other companies that want to be nearby, and so on.
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Old Posted Nov 19, 2014, 9:50 PM
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There's no comprehensive skyline view. A newspaper did a horrible job of it recently that didn't even consider height (huh?). Every sizeable project goes through design review including views from various angles, but these aren't aggregated.

The worst parking lot zone historically has been owned by Clise for generations. That's probably the area you're referring to. Four city blocks have been taken by Amazon for new office towers, of which two blocks are under construction so far. Amazon has options or right of first refusal on additional properties from the same owner. The same mostly blank area, including land owned by others, has had five apartment or condo towers break ground since 2011, and more are planned.

I heard Amazon's real estate guy speak yesterday, and he said they'd have 10,000,000 sf of Seattle HQ office by 2019. He also said that they have about 20,000 HQ employees, 20% of their current staff walks to work, and future growth will merit another 6,000 apartments in that neighborhood by 2019. None of these are surprising, but they're still amazong numbers for what one company can do to one side of anybody's downtown. Plus all the hotel rooms and services they need, other companies that want to be nearby, and so on.
Wow, def impressive.

If Amazon didn't have such an awful reputation as a company to work for, I'd totally consider applying to them and moving up to Seattle!
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Here's a little something from the Urban Visionaries

November 20, 2014
Urban Visions says Stadium East campus would be ‘one of a kind'
By JOURNAL STAFF

http://www.djc.com/news/re/12072087.html

Urban Visions has released a new rendering for Stadium East, a nearly 1 million-square-foot office and retail campus it is planning near CenturyLink and Safeco fields.


Image courtesy of NBBJ [enlarge]
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Old Posted Nov 21, 2014, 12:06 AM
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Here's a little something from the Urban Visionaries

November 20, 2014
Urban Visions says Stadium East campus would be ‘one of a kind'
By JOURNAL STAFF

http://www.djc.com/news/re/12072087.html

Urban Visions has released a new rendering for Stadium East, a nearly 1 million-square-foot office and retail campus it is planning near CenturyLink and Safeco fields.


Image courtesy of NBBJ [enlarge]
One of a kind? No kidding..........it looks like a rat's maze. Isn't Urban Visions the one that keeps coming up with grandiose plans that never go anywhere?
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Old Posted Nov 21, 2014, 4:47 AM
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Thanks Vashon for the photos. I like that bldg a lot.
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Old Posted Nov 21, 2014, 9:16 PM
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One of a kind? No kidding..........it looks like a rat's maze. Isn't Urban Visions the one that keeps coming up with grandiose plans that never go anywhere?
I like to say that they just haven't yet had a project built.
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Old Posted Nov 22, 2014, 12:53 AM
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I like to say that they just haven't yet had a project built.

lol. One day it will happen....................
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Glad to see that the large parking lot on 2nd is finally getting filled in. When I was there four years ago, I couldn't believe the size of this lot and its central location. How did that happen?, I wondered.

Also good to see 5th and Colombia start work. I thought it would never go through. Must be the tallest building since WaMu right?
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Old Posted Nov 23, 2014, 8:09 PM
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The short answer is that much of it was parking and the rest had a small building, which was torn down for a 23-story tower project. The project broke ground around 2007 or so(?). Then it stalled due to the economy and the astonishing realization that the business model didn't gibe with the zoning and the developer and City didn't realize what the other needed. Basically the residential portion couldn't be rented as hotel units. Eventually the hole was filled in. After some ownership gyrations it was bought by Equity Residential. They came up with the current plan, including this tower plus something else eventually at the north end of the block, which will start with a ground-level podium underway now but needs to go through permitting separately.

Seattle has always had more parking lots than its reputation would suggest. The good news is they're now being filled at a furious pace.
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Old Posted Nov 26, 2014, 5:06 AM
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Russell Investments building is quickly becoming 'Zillow Tower' as company takes over 5 more floors

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/b...-becoming.html
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Old Posted Nov 26, 2014, 5:12 AM
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Amazon will have enough space for 71,500 employees in Seattle by 2019

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/b....html?page=all
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I like to say that they just haven't yet had a project built.
Here you go:

Urban Visions Not Envisioning Tallest Skyscraper in Seattle After All




Real estate developer Urban Visions and architect NBBJ have released early design of the the 888 2nd project, and there's a big hole in the middle of it. Specifically, a central atrium running the entire block at street-level which will allow pedestrians to walk underneath the 60-story tower and look up through it. According to Urban Visions CEO Greg Smith, plans call for 1.2M square feet of space, 30K square feet of street-level retail, which includes a new & improved Metropolitan Grill, and 140K square feet of residential space (likely condos). Plans are to go begin the design guidance process within the next couple months but there is no ETA on construction. Early plans called for the tower to rise 77 stories, making it the tallest in Seattle. Even though it won't be the tallest in town now, it'll still be able to give people a reason the look to the sky above.


http://seattle.curbed.com/archives/2...-after-all.php

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Old Posted Nov 26, 2014, 6:03 AM
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Old Posted Nov 27, 2014, 4:38 AM
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Never seen Insignia from this angle. The project is a monster..........and its all condos......and its getting sold out. Thanks for the photos.
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Old Posted Nov 27, 2014, 6:19 AM
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Company town: Amazon’s rapid growth sparks housing boom in Seattle’s urban core

by Todd Bishop on November 26, 2014 at 8:15 am


(1)This map, from a recent Amazon filing with the city, shows the company’s development sites in the Denny Triangle neighborhood, along with nearby projects in the works. (Click for larger version.)

There were audible gasps from the Urban Land Institute audience last week when Amazon real estate director John Schoettler delivered the stat: Amazon is growing so quickly that it needs developers to build 30 new residential buildings in and around downtown Seattle, with at least 200 units each, just to accommodate its employees in the coming years.

That translates into 6,000 residential units — representing nearly 60 percent of the new housing units currently planned in downtown Seattle and nearby neighborhoods including South Lake Union, home to Amazon’s headquarters; and the Denny Triangle, where the company has started construction on what will ultimately be a new, four-block office campus.

“I was surprised to hear this so directly and succinctly from Amazon,” said Kelly Mann, the Urban Land Institute Northwest executive director, one of several people who recounted the meeting for GeekWire. “But it really makes sense in light of the company’s tremendous growth to date and their plans for continued hiring.”

That growth also brings tremendous risk, essentially requiring the city to place a bet on Amazon’s continued success and growth — with a huge portion of the city’s workforce and residential population depending on it.

Despite testing Wall Street’s patience with a lack of consistent profits, the company has been hiring at a rapid pace over the past several years — adding a net total of nearly 40,000 employees globally in just the past year.

As of its most recent quarterly report, Amazon had reached nearly 150,000 employees. Amazon’s employment number includes warehouse workers around the world, not just engineers and office employees, but it’s nonetheless nearly three times Google’s employee count. Google’s market value is more than $368 billion, more than twice Amazon’s market value of $154 billion.

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Amazon has purposefully focused its growth in Seattle’s urban core.

“We could have built a suburban campus. I think it would have been the wrong decision,” said Amazon CEO Bezos at the company’s annual shareholders meeting this year. He said the types of people Amazon employs and tries to recruit “appreciate the energy and and dynamism of an urban environment.”

Amazon's planned campus the Denny-Triangle area of Seattle includes a futuristic biodome structure.Amazon’s planned campus the Denny-Triangle area of Seattle includes a futuristic biodome structure.

It’s also better for the city of Seattle and the planet, he said. “I think it’s pretty much indisputable that urban campuses relative to suburban campuses are better because there’s much less commuting and much less fuel burned,” with many people choosing to live near work.

The comments by Amazon’s Schoettler at the recent Urban Land Institute meeting were referring, in part, to a transportation management program that lays out guidelines for housing within walking distance of new offices.

Those benefits aren’t in dispute. But in addition to the rapid pace of Amazon’s growth in the urban core raises larger questions about affordable housing and transportation infrastructure, and the ability of the city to keep up. Based on the company’s existing and planned space, the Puget Sound Business Journal estimates that Amazon will have enough space for a total of 70,000 employees in Seattle by 2019.
Understanding the risks


In a widely read post on GeekWire last week, commentator Jeff Reifman cited many of these issues, in addition to the economic risk of Amazon’s rapid growth. What happens, he asked, if Amazon collapses?

“It’s unlikely but not completely outside the realm of possibility,” he wrote. “Any sudden broader economic downturn could hurt the retailer’s cash flow which is the lifeline to Seattle’s current growth. For the foreseeable future, Seattle’s prospects will rise and fall with Amazon.”

Despite the risks, real estate experts say the city will be able to handle the growth.

“Realizing that the infrastructure always lags a little, I can’t think of a better place to put jobs,” said A-P Hurd, a vice president of developer Touchstone Corp., who moderated the panel on which Schoettler spoke.

Mann, the ULI-Northwest executive director, noted that Seattle ranks third nationally for real estate development and fourth for investment, underscoring the overall health of the market. “We are very fortunate to have such strong job growth in our region,” Mann said.

“At the end of the day, jobs drive real estate value, and what we heard from John Schoettler … was that Amazon is hiring and their new hires need places to live,” Mann said. “This demand will support a healthy housing market for the foreseeable future. Yes, there is capacity for 30 new multi-family projects downtown and in close-in areas, and there are plenty of developers vying to satisfy that demand.”
Todd Bishop is GeekWire's co-founder and editor, covering

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The short answer is that much of it was parking and the rest had a small building, which was torn down for a 23-story tower project. The project broke ground around 2007 or so(?). Then it stalled due to the economy and the astonishing realization that the business model didn't gibe with the zoning and the developer and City didn't realize what the other needed. Basically the residential portion couldn't be rented as hotel units. Eventually the hole was filled in. After some ownership gyrations it was bought by Equity Residential. They came up with the current plan, including this tower plus something else eventually at the north end of the block, which will start with a ground-level podium underway now but needs to go through permitting separately.

Seattle has always had more parking lots than its reputation would suggest. The good news is they're now being filled at a furious pace.

cool, thanks for the explanation.
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Great, great photos Vashon. Thanks.

And what I am about to say has nothing to do with the quality of the photos. However, increasingly I am bothered by how dark the cladding is that's being used on the new bldgs. One of the reasons I like the Vancouver skyline is because they use lighter colored materials on their bldgs which IMO acts as a nice contrast to the dark, rainy days of the PNW. Seattle's skyline is increasing populated by dark towers. I am not sure why Seattle architects or developers are opting for these darker materials.

And let me add..........I know Seattle is very, very fortunate to have so much development going on in its DT area. We are in the top ten if not the top five in the country for DT development. Trust........I am not looking a gift horse in the mouth. I am glad the development is happening.

Nonetheless, I am bothered by this design issue. I know this is mostly a minor point but does anyone else feel the same way?
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I believe top 5. In terms of raw construction and units: NYC, S.Florida, Houston, Seattle, and SF are in the top 5.

Other cities that are booming are Boston, and actually DC. The suburbs in particular are getting 1000's of units.

Great time for Seattle and the metro in particular (Tacoma and Bellevue are receiving a nice amount of units), and may the boom continue for a long time. (Lets hope )

For the cities population, they have quite a collection of skyscrapers too. Was just checking Emporis and its quite a sight. Very impressive for <700k, and that number will rise by 2018. Hopefully we will get more high rises that break the 440 foot height limit. I'm hoping they raise it for residential.
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