Joule apartments take shape on Capitol Hill By JOURNAL STAFF Essex Broadway LLC is building Joule, a 295-unit apartment complex on the former QFC site at Broadway East and Republican Street on Capitol Hill. The owners are a joint venture of the Burkheimer family and Essex Property Trust, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based real estate [...]
Harbor Properties plans two projects in West Seattle By LYNN PORTER Journal Real Estate Editor Hewitt is the architect and Exxel Pacific the contractor for the seven-story Mural Apartments in the Alaska Junction area of West Seattle. Harbor Properties plans to build an approximately 200-unit apartment complex in a West Seattle neighborhood that the [...]
Lumen condos: doing more with less By LYNN PORTER Journal Real Estate Editor When Alan Winningham bought his Belltown condo he requested that it come as is, just the shell. Then he and his partner created a home that combines high design and functionality. Room dividers also act as furniture and storage. Some walls [...]
$15.5M Yale Avenue Apartments on again By JOURNAL STAFF Construction of the Yale Avenue Apartments is underway and expected to be finished in a year. Designed by Driscoll Architects, the 100-unit complex was originally to be developed by Fortune Group but was purchased four months ago by SeaMark Properties. It is located at 420 [...]
Work starts on Tacoma hotel By JOURNAL STAFF Along with new museums, housing and a convention center, Tacoma is also getting a new downtown hotel. The 153-room Courtyard by Marriott is under construction between Pacific Avenue and Commerce Street, at the corner of South 15th, across the street from the Greater Tacoma Convention and [...]
Vulcan says The Martin 60% leased By JOURNAL STAFF The Martin, Vulcan's 24-story apartment tower at 2105 Fifth Ave., is 60 percent leased three months after opening. The 188 units average 940 square feet, about 200 square feet larger than other new units in the neighborhood, said Megan Murphy, residential marketing manager at Vulcan. [...]
Mack Urban starting apartment project in Wallingford this spring By JOURNAL STAFF Mack Urban will start construction in April on a four-story, 150-unit apartment building in Wallingford. The project at 1321 N. 45th St. will have three retail spaces, a rooftop deck, 5,000-square-foot outdoor common area and 152 underground parking spaces. “Wallingford is quintessential [...]
Historic rehab a test for performance-based codes A pilot program allowed Vulcan to decide how best to cut energy use at the 107-year-old Supply Laundry Building. If successful, it could offer a way reduce conflicts between historic preservation and code requirements. By BRANDON MORGAN Vulcan Real Estate Developers today are faced with the challenge [...]
Design review for 25-story SLU tower By JOURNAL STAFF SEATTLE — A proposal by MacFarlane Partners for a 25-story apartment tower in South Lake Union will get its first look by a city design-review board next month. A meeting is scheduled for 8 p.m. April 2 at Queen Anne Community Center, at 1901 First [...]
Management by Design: Two construction professionals say technology, productivity are driving business By CLIVE SHEARER Special to the Journal Being successful in today's business environment demands much more than marketing. It is important to keep clients happy by doing a good job. I interviewed two prominent contractors, focusing on how the right technology and [...]
