Slog - Comments on Design Reviews: Knocked Down Downtown http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/design_reviews_knocked_down_downtown Third Avenue and Cedar Street The end is near for the one-story, wooden building owned by the Musicians Union of Seattle since 1948 on the southeast corner of Third and Cedar. Harbor Properties plans to demolish and replace it with a 17-story, 185-unit apartment building with 3,000 square feet of retail at street level. According to the city's recent notice, parking would be provided for 86 vehicles—egads, that’s less that one car per unit! How will the city function? Ahem. Here’s the design: Hewitt Architects The Musicians Union will be displaced during construction, which they expect to commence this fall,... Copyright 2008 Tue, 06 May 2008 15:04:41 -0800 Tue, 06 May 2008 16:56:27 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Westlake, son! Awesome, these all sound much better than a parking lot. I'm calling you out, Clise family!

http://www.realestatejournal.com/regionalnews/20070618-forsyth.html

]]> Westlake, son! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/design_reviews_knocked_down_downtown#c1016444 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/design_reviews_knocked_down_downtown#c1016444 Boom Tue, 06 May 2008 15:44:40 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways I'm alarmed at the prospect of displaced, drunken musicians roaming the streets of Seattle...

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/design_reviews_knocked_down_downtown#c1016453 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/design_reviews_knocked_down_downtown#c1016453 Boom Tue, 06 May 2008 15:46:36 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle I am so sad our Brutalist History will be gone.

Not.

Sayonara, Greyhound!

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/design_reviews_knocked_down_downtown#c1016471 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/design_reviews_knocked_down_downtown#c1016471 Boom Tue, 06 May 2008 15:56:57 -0800 Comment by max solomon @3: have you LOOKED at the greyhound building? it'd DECO.

nice work, Hewitt. i can barely keep my eyes open looking at that.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/design_reviews_knocked_down_downtown#c1016487 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/design_reviews_knocked_down_downtown#c1016487 Boom Tue, 06 May 2008 16:05:38 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Yeah, I parked next to it last week.

Bygones. Glad to see it go.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/design_reviews_knocked_down_downtown#c1016577 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/design_reviews_knocked_down_downtown#c1016577 Boom Tue, 06 May 2008 16:56:27 -0800