December 7, 2016 The Cannery squeezes 54 units onto a challenging site in Pioneer Square By BRIAN MILLER Journal staff reporter Building anything in Pioneer Square is difficult enough, given the small lots, watery soil, lack of developable land and historic-preservation requirements. Yet that's not stopping property owner Ron Amundson and developer Maria [...]
November 29, 2016 Atlas Workbase offers co-working space for more professional crowd By LYNN PORTER Journal Staff Reporter Tolis Dimopoulos has used co-working spaces as an attorney for startups, but he said none have been great places for doing business. That changed, Dimopoulos said, with his move to Atlas Workbase, a 20,000-square-foot co-working [...]
October 25, 2016 5 contractors honored for protecting salmon Salmon-Safe projects certified in South Lake Union include the Allen Institute for Brain Science. GLY was the contractor. Stewardship Partners and Salmon-Safe hosted Spawn South Lake Union at Tesla in South Lake Union to recognize the accomplishments of local Salmon-Safe accredited construction firms in [...]
October 21, 2016 Vulcan buys SLU site for a 25-story tower By BRIAN MILLER Ankrom Moisan is the architect for this tower at 901 Harrison. King County records a prime South Lake Union building site sold for $28.5 million to City Investors XXVIII LLC, which is affiliated with Vulcan Real Estate. The seller [...]
September 8, 2016 Vulcan Real Estate demolished an old warehouse at 1255 Harrison St. this summer so that it can build 384 apartments in three seven-story structures that will cover the entire block. Runberg Architecture Group is the designer and says the “three angled ‘cabin-like' buildings (will) create a concave backdrop to the adjacent [...]
July 28, 2016 Vulcan Real Estate broke ground last Friday on Batik, a new apartment complex at 123 Broadway that is part of the $2 billion redevelopment of the 30-acre Yesler Terrace tract. Vulcan bought the site in January for $5.92 million from Seattle Housing Authority as part of a structured deal that will [...]
July 22, 2016 Several Seattle architecture firms were winners in the 2016 Gold Nugget Awards. The were 665 entries for the awards, which recognize community and housing design and planning, green-built housing, site planning, commercial, retail, mixed-use and specialty categories. Runberg Architecture Group won three grand awards for projects here. Astro Apartments was named [...]
July 1, 2016 Crews from Exxel Pacific have cleared the Capitol Hill site that years ago housed Manning's Funeral Parlor and most recently Richard Hugo House, a nonprofit center for writers. It is at 1634 11th Ave., across the street from Cal Anderson Park. Now Exxel Pacific is prepping the site to host a [...]
April 20, 2017 On the Block: Equinox has plans for SLU and Ballard, too Developer Brian Regan and his Equinox Properties are hoping to break ground in December on an eight-story retail and office building called 9th Space at 308 Ninth Ave. N., in South Lake Union. 9th Space would continue the galactic theme [...]
Wallingford project appeals to hobbyists, history buffs By NAT LEVY Journal Staff Reporter Mack Urban has submitted its latest entry into the competition to stand out from the thousands of apartments going up in Seattle: a hobby room. The firm's new five-story, 150-unit building at 4455 Interlake Ave. N. includes a 660-square-foot room on [...]
