Slog - Comments on Can It Be True? A Free Historic Building to an Arts Organization? http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/can_it_be_true_a_free_historic_building Free aside from repairs, of course. But seriously: is this the kind of deal anyone will be interested in? I'm on a deadline and headed for an airplane at the same time, otherwise I'd look into this more deeply, but this is the word that I and a bunch of other reporters just received from Scott Lawrimore, owner of Lawrimore Project downtown, which is next to the building in question: It has come to my attention that the City of Seattle has released its hold on a permit to acquire the GIGANTIC, historical and long-fallow Immigration Building next to my... Copyright 2008 Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:51:07 -0800 Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:31:50 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Be careful That building will need millions of dollars of rehab work before it is suitable for any use..... I believe that is why the city balked at the easy artistic angle.

]]> Be careful http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/can_it_be_true_a_free_historic_building#c845145 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/can_it_be_true_a_free_historic_building#c845145 Arts Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:55:36 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Didn't KUOW say that the City of Seattle is already converting a much larger building at Sand Point that they already own into artist lofts?

And isn't this a much wiser use of our limited resources than this other building?

I think it was Nick Licata who announced the Sand Point artist lofts.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/can_it_be_true_a_free_historic_building#c845172 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/can_it_be_true_a_free_historic_building#c845172 Arts Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:16:53 -0800 Comment by Finishtag The big expense here is seismic, which is required. Many arts organizations have looked at this and come close to having it pencil out.

Arts organizations don't need this BUILDING to be free, they need free structural steel and free structural engineers.

]]> Finishtag http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/can_it_be_true_a_free_historic_building#c845183 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/can_it_be_true_a_free_historic_building#c845183 Arts Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:27:31 -0800 Comment by Kevin Erickson This is sort of the same process that ABC NO Rio, the long-running cultural center in manhattan's lower east side got to buy their building for a dollar.

of course they didn't have the seismic stuff to deal with.

]]> Kevin Erickson http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/can_it_be_true_a_free_historic_building#c845190 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/can_it_be_true_a_free_historic_building#c845190 Arts Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:31:09 -0800 Comment by inside_info The other challenge is that the building has a historic landmark designation, which limits how much the structure can be changed. Working around that designation can be even more costly for a nonprofit arts or community organization.

]]> inside_info http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/can_it_be_true_a_free_historic_building#c845195 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/can_it_be_true_a_free_historic_building#c845195 Arts Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:34:27 -0800 Comment by inside_info The other challenge is that the building has a historic landmark designation, which limits how much the structure can be changed. Working around that designation can be even more costly for a nonprofit arts or community organization.

]]> inside_info http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/can_it_be_true_a_free_historic_building#c845196 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/can_it_be_true_a_free_historic_building#c845196 Arts Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:34:36 -0800 Comment by max solomon that building is in the dog end of the ID, hard by a tangle of expressway ramps & the skeevyest shell station in the city (which i patronize frequently).

seeing how its seattle arts orgs you're proposing to use it, what are we going to fill it with, fibreglass nutcrackers & cows?

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/can_it_be_true_a_free_historic_building#c845541 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/can_it_be_true_a_free_historic_building#c845541 Arts Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:33:15 -0800 Comment by herbert browne Jesus! It's got its own parking lot in back (and my favorite grocery store in the city, as well)- & the parking lot, taken to 3 stories, next to the bus tunnel, close to trains, stadia, etc could make all the money it needs to fix up, without even bothering the rest of the site (go to 4 stories, and paint a mural behind the old beauty, to frame it nicely). But if we gotta tear it down, O pragmatists, all I want is the wrought iron transom guards over the doorways... ^..^
ps I'll volunteer time to make this work... however... as a useful & restored site. ^..^

]]> herbert browne http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/can_it_be_true_a_free_historic_building#c845685 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/can_it_be_true_a_free_historic_building#c845685 Arts Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:35:44 -0800 Comment by vanessa dewolf I did research out of curiosity and according to an article in february 2007 in nw asian weekly it sounds like plans are already underway for this building.
here's the url for the article:
www.nwasianweekly.com/ins20072606.htm
anyway I'm interested to hear what happens. Hey also why is the visual art scene that knows about this but not the performing arts scene which is in crisis with the recent selling of the oddfellows building on cap hill?

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