Slog - Comments on Design Reviews: A First on First, a Second on Second, and the Great Technicolor North http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/design_reviews_a_first_on_first_a_second First Things First The only thing missing from the northeast corner of 1st Avenue and Stewart Street is, well, everything. It’s been a parking lot as long as I can remember. To see that corner used the way a downtown corner should be used, you’ve got to flip the calendar back 80 years, when it looked like this. Touchstone Corporation plans to fill out the site's zoning envelope, which limits buildings to 125’. The proposed development would stand 11 stories, contain 75 apartments and 100 hotel units, operating as a sister hotel with the Inn at the Market. “We’re going... Copyright 2008 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:15:37 -0800 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:11:03 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by NaFun That rooftop restaurant sounds exciting. I hope The Stranger keeps an eye on it and sends Bethany there the minute it opens.

]]> NaFun http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/design_reviews_a_first_on_first_a_second#c1003985 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/design_reviews_a_first_on_first_a_second#c1003985 Boom Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:28:41 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle I like the First Things First design, considering the zoning limits and impact on views.

The Second Thing ... it's still too short, but a nice implementation considering what's there.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/design_reviews_a_first_on_first_a_second#c1004063 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/design_reviews_a_first_on_first_a_second#c1004063 Boom Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:20:02 -0800 Comment by Greg Barnes 15th Ave NE apartments will be next to the Executive Estates complex, which always gets a chuckle from me when I bike past. Guess it's for those high-powered execs who golf at the Jackson Park Golf Course and eat at the taco truck across 145th.

]]> Greg Barnes http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/design_reviews_a_first_on_first_a_second#c1004069 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/design_reviews_a_first_on_first_a_second#c1004069 Boom Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:24:03 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV Much as I like Dominic, everytime I read "This Week in Property Development" about the latest luxury high-rises, I have to wonder if The Strangers' target demographic hasn't shifted, some.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/design_reviews_a_first_on_first_a_second#c1004130 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/design_reviews_a_first_on_first_a_second#c1004130 Boom Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:00:31 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle @4 - no, it's just the Weekly lost it's readership and the daily papers stopped covering local news.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/design_reviews_a_first_on_first_a_second#c1004156 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/design_reviews_a_first_on_first_a_second#c1004156 Boom Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:19:43 -0800 Comment by Cale I believe the developers at 2nd and Virginia called killed the project. So those two towers behind 1st and Stewart are out.

Thank god they fixed Bakhita Gardens. It looked truly awful before.

]]> Cale http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/design_reviews_a_first_on_first_a_second#c1004224 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/design_reviews_a_first_on_first_a_second#c1004224 Boom Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:49:46 -0800 Comment by elenchos Yeah like Dominic has this pile of low income housing announcements he's tossed aside because he's he can't tear himself away from his first love, bigass palaces and the rich folk that build them.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/design_reviews_a_first_on_first_a_second#c1004232 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/design_reviews_a_first_on_first_a_second#c1004232 Boom Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:16:09 -0800 Comment by Dominic Holden @ 4 & 7) Surely, you jest. I've been indiscriminately covering EVERY design review in the city.

In this post, the second project is transitional housing for homeless women--the opposite of luxury high-rises for the wealthy. Let's see, then we have apartments in prestigious Lake City Way and another on the border of Shoreline. We also have apartments and hotel on an empty lot downtown. Then there are duplexes in the Rainier Valley. Where are the palaces for rich people, again? Where are the low-income projects I'm ignoring?

]]> Dominic Holden http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/design_reviews_a_first_on_first_a_second#c1004352 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/design_reviews_a_first_on_first_a_second#c1004352 Boom Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:18:23 -0800 Comment by Greg The new development at 15th and 145th will be right behind the liquor store. Convenient, eh?

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/design_reviews_a_first_on_first_a_second#c1004423 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/design_reviews_a_first_on_first_a_second#c1004423 Boom Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:58:29 -0800 Comment by Justin J I enjoy having the design review synopsis here on Slog. They're one of my favoite things to read on here. That and the Hillary-bashing, of course.

]]> Justin J http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/design_reviews_a_first_on_first_a_second#c1004748 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/design_reviews_a_first_on_first_a_second#c1004748 Boom Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:11:03 -0800