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News & ArtsThursday, July 23, 2009
Two-Block Radius / Boom This Building
Posted by Dominic Holden on Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:55 PM
Reports Lynn Porter at the DJC:
Pryde + Johnson has filed plans with the city of Seattle to renovate the former Precision Autowerks building at the southeast corner of 11th Avenue and East Pine Street into retail, artists lofts and 84 residential units.GGLO is designing the project at the 1530 11th Ave. The plan is to retain the facade of the 1926 building and construct a new six-story building with ground floor retail and the housing above, according to information from the city.
About time.
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i asked about this on Questionland MONTHS ago...finally, i get an answer!
but, that's an awful lot of residential units in a rather noisy nightlife area...how long after these get built/occupied before the new residents start bitching about the noise and cleaning up the neigborhood, ie dulling it down to acceptable levels for yuppies...
but, that's an awful lot of residential units in a rather noisy nightlife area...how long after these get built/occupied before the new residents start bitching about the noise and cleaning up the neigborhood, ie dulling it down to acceptable levels for yuppies...
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There should be a simple way to avoid that problem @1:
The first day units are available for inspection, we throw an impromptu block party on 11th, and a simultaneous city-wide soccer tourney across the street at Cal Anderson. Also, the entire Stranger Staff needs to conduct round-the-clock hourly moonings of the units from their office across the street.
The first day units are available for inspection, we throw an impromptu block party on 11th, and a simultaneous city-wide soccer tourney across the street at Cal Anderson. Also, the entire Stranger Staff needs to conduct round-the-clock hourly moonings of the units from their office across the street.
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I have thought about that building for years when I walk by. Really a pretty good location for a bar if you think about it. I imagined two big windows one facing 11th and the other facing Pine. 11th Ave is becoming more and more popular.
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hey put in some 90 SF rooming house type rooms that only cost $500 a month ... we need affordable housing and this neighborhood is perfect for it
great story in Times today about that model, and the developer says only 10 out of 80 tenants have cars.
Like we said: you don't need parking, you can have smaller spaces, you can solve the affordability problem.
great story in Times today about that model, and the developer says only 10 out of 80 tenants have cars.
Like we said: you don't need parking, you can have smaller spaces, you can solve the affordability problem.
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@10, it's an effort of Developers (largely GOP supporters) to shut down gay bars. And you know what? It's working!!
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Well, it looks like the days of Purr are numbered too. The Cuff has a new apartment building almost completed overlooking the back patio- unless they only rent to gay crack addicts the patio (and possibly the bar) will have to close due to noise ordinance violations...
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It worries me that they plan to build something that would in some way be improved by retaining that facade.
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that building has a ton of character and i'm just glad they didn't decide to tear it down and build gnarly townhouses or condos, ala take your pick
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For your motoring pleasure, I recommend reading what the Public Intern had to write about riding the rails on opening day - it's just a short train ride away and you'll love the new multi-ethnic neighborhoods you can now go to.
Automobils are so passe'.
Automobils are so passe'.
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And as soon as the first a-hole renter complaines about the noies from nearby bars, they will close the bars down.
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New Rule: If you locate to a hip appartment to be right on top of the action, you can't complain about noise.
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@8 My server crashed when I tried to say the same thing. Let me make it clear to Sloggers:
Facadism is incredibly destructive and ruins the "historic" character of buildings. It is NOT renovation when you are tearing down every part of a building but the facade. Worse, brick and stone facades must be supported with ugly scaffolding, which destroys any of the beauty they may have left.
See Wikipedia on facadism. This is NOT what we want in our neighborhoods. Either restore the building, or tear it down, but don't gut everything but the front and insist it's historical preservation.
Facadism is incredibly destructive and ruins the "historic" character of buildings. It is NOT renovation when you are tearing down every part of a building but the facade. Worse, brick and stone facades must be supported with ugly scaffolding, which destroys any of the beauty they may have left.
See Wikipedia on facadism. This is NOT what we want in our neighborhoods. Either restore the building, or tear it down, but don't gut everything but the front and insist it's historical preservation.
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it's gglo.
it won't be an improvement. and it won't function well at all. ugh, i fear for the future of mixed use/multi family projects in this city. you'd think with the architectural legacy this city has (which is surprisingly rich given the relative newness of the place) that we'd be getting better buildings than we are.
christ, materials are down significantly from where they were a year ago, and we still won't see anything pushing boundaries, anything daring. more sh*tty projects by more sh*tty developers that have no vision, only ego.
it won't be an improvement. and it won't function well at all. ugh, i fear for the future of mixed use/multi family projects in this city. you'd think with the architectural legacy this city has (which is surprisingly rich given the relative newness of the place) that we'd be getting better buildings than we are.
christ, materials are down significantly from where they were a year ago, and we still won't see anything pushing boundaries, anything daring. more sh*tty projects by more sh*tty developers that have no vision, only ego.
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@20
I think you didn't get a chance to read the wikipedia article slowly enough. The whole issue with scaffolding is with those projects that get stalled out and leave the facade up while the project waits. That's no worse than what's happened to the parking lot formerly known as the bus stop. Facadism isn't all good, but I think it's better than tearing down the building altogether.
As the wikipedia article states: It's a compromise.
Compromise is so hard sometimes. Wait, it's not hard if you're an adult.
I think you didn't get a chance to read the wikipedia article slowly enough. The whole issue with scaffolding is with those projects that get stalled out and leave the facade up while the project waits. That's no worse than what's happened to the parking lot formerly known as the bus stop. Facadism isn't all good, but I think it's better than tearing down the building altogether.
As the wikipedia article states: It's a compromise.
Compromise is so hard sometimes. Wait, it's not hard if you're an adult.
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