In a city where developers are building crap like this, there is another developer doing this:

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Weinstein AU

Liz Dunn, a partner of Dunn & Hobbes development, will present plans to the city tonight for this third piece of a project in the Pike-Pine neighborhood. Spanning between 11th and 12th Avenue, the project comprises two other buildings: the Agnes Lofts (contemporary) and the renovated Piston and Ring Building, a 1926 concrete and wood warehouse home to Osteria La Spiga and Cafe Stellina. “A lot of developers would have bulldozed that thing right down,” says Lesley Bain, architect for Weinstein AU. The mid-block space between the buildings will create a public thoroughfare and courtyard lined with stores and restaurants:

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The new building will contain 60 small studio apartments—between 300 and 500 square feet—geared toward affordability for Capitol Hill tenants. “This is not meant to be a big gentrification move,” Bain says.