Boom Building for a Better Taco
posted by March 24 at 13:29 PM
onSalvador Sahagun may be the most endearing developer ever. Happy to hear from a stranger who found his number on the city’s Web site, it turns out he is the primary owner of Tacos Guaymas, the taqueria and cantina chain serving delicious authentic-ish Mexican food around Seattle. Tonight he meets with a design-review board to discuss the redevelopment of his Fremont property at 100 N 36th Street.
Sahagun wants to demolish the existing (cantina-less) Tacos Guaymas and its one-story building, which was previously used as a church. It was later covered in stucco “to give it the look of Mexican restaurant,” he says. He has proposed a three-story building on the site, with about 5000 square feet of retail for a new restaurant (and possibly a cantina) on the ground floor and residential units above. The outdoor seating would remain.
“We’re intending to put in six condos,” says Sahagun. “One of those I intend to use for myself, one for my in-laws, and maybe rent the other ones.” He’s building condos for his in-laws from a taco empire. I love him.
Tonight a design-review board will review his current proposal—which responds to design guidance (.pdf) provided last fall, such as maximizing the height of the retail level—at 6:30 p.m. in the library at Ballard High School, 1418 NW 65th Street. Go. Vote cantina!
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Hey Dominic-
Just a quick word to say that I love these posts. You do a great job and I really enjoy finding out about the development stuff going on around town. Thanks!
Nifty!
Too bad you never cover Wallingford or Fremont or Greenwood or ...
(besides, with all the condos we have, everything's going three to four stories)
It's the American Dream in action!
@1) Thanks, John!
@2 & 3) Will, your comments don't make a lick of sense.
Sorry, I forgot to enable the /sarcasm tag. But we used to mostly be two-story houses in the area and went to three-to-four story condos over the past decade.
It was a roundabout way of saying thanks for getting off the Hill.
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