Practice makes perfect as SFD tears into the old market prior to demolition (Image: @warmdarm)
If you noticed a prolonged Seattle Fire response atop the old Capitol Hill Market/Style Syndicate space last Saturday, it was, indeed, a sign of things to come. The practice session is prelude to demolition slated to happen over the next week or so. After that comes “32 micro apartments and a 1,700 retail/restaurant space on the first floor,” developer Scott Shapiro tells us. One of the backers of the Melrose Market, Shapiro talked with CHS about his foray into microhousing on 12th Ave here in this 2012 CHS post on his project. The ‘Microhousing Melrose Market’ — not its real name :) — should open by spring 2014, Shapiro said.
“Microhousing” = developer speak for “cram yourself into a closet and pay me $600 a month for the privilege, you sad little person who have failed to milk the dotcom teat and so deserve to live like an animal in a cage”.
This is the solution to affordable housing? Cramming people in like rats?
Microhousing is for people too stupid to realize they are getting ripped off. It is insane that it can be considered affordable housing.
If people are willing to pay that much for the apartment, why be so judgmental? Different people have different priorities.
Oh, great, yet another ugly, cheaply built apodment with no design review and no parking. When is this going to end? The City Council can’t act quickly enough to stop this madness. We will rue the day when we allowed so many of these atrocities to be built!
And by the way, $600/month is just what the lowest-rent units cost…many of the units are significantly more expensive than that.
32 “micro” apartments? Say goodbye to any available parking on 12th avenue.
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If it’s such a good idea, how about micro condos?