Reminder: Design review for six-story Broadway Bait Shop block project this week

Wednesday will bring the first public design review of a proposed new project to build a new six-story mixed-use development on the Broadway block home to Bait Shop. In this first “early design guidance” round of review, the East Design … Continue reading

Design review: Developers moving ahead with 6-story ‘U-shaped’ project on Broadway’s Bait Shop block

Developers behind a project to create a new mixed-use development on the Bait Shop block of Broadway will present their plans for the new new six-story building at a city-required design review session next week. Cascade Ridge Partners is moving … Continue reading

Design review: Developers want QFC block project to make room for 10 businesses, 170 apartments, 1 ‘tier 2’ tree — and they want to rise 6 stories on 15th Ave E to do it — UPDATE

The Capitol Hill developers behind the project to transform the old QFC block of 15th Ave E into new apartments, businesses, and plaza space want the new building to give the neighborhood a vibrant streetscape with a mix of trees … Continue reading

Eight-story E Olive Way development finally ready for last step in Seattle design review process

There will be a small burst of design review activity around Capitol Hill as summer becomes fall including a project that could be key to the next steps in the long, slow climb of change reshaping E Olive Way. The major … Continue reading

D3 Central Area forum: This candidate would bring back neighborhood councils, this candidate says design review should be more like Paris (and South Bend!), and this candidate called Seattle ‘a Mecca for those who are struggling’

The race to make it through the top-two August primary to represent the city’s eastern core on the Seattle City Council stopped through the Central District with a forum that questioned the candidates on mental health services, drug laws, street … Continue reading

Design review: Tree preservation, parking, and new housing — A 13th Ave project with something for everyone on Capitol Hill

A new project planned for the 600 block of 13th Ave E will continue the area’s transition away from most of its remaining single family-style housing. This week, the project takes its first bow in front of the East Design … Continue reading

Design review: Two projects, 500 new apartments, and a new home for Photographic Center Northwest along 12th Ave

A pair of development projects that would add more than 500 new apartments to the Central District along 12th Ave will come before the Central Area Design Review Board this week including a building that will create a new home … Continue reading

Seattle City Council wraps a December urbanist package with new street cafe and food truck regulations, and design review exemption for affordable housing

The Seattle City Council approved a slate of legislation Tuesday sure to make the city’s urbanists pleased, unanimously passing one bill hoped to speed the development of affordable housing and another that will help keep outdoor spaces and food trucks a … Continue reading

Design review: Someday they’ll redevelop the abandoned E Olive Way Starbucks but first they’re building this 7-story mixed-use apartment building across the street

Starbucks bailed on the street because they claimed the area has too much crime but that is not stopping plans for another major redevelopment along E Olive Way. A group of two and three story buildings will make way for … Continue reading

Seattle proposal would free affordable projects from design review — and give all developers path to skip public meetings

The city’s COVID-19 emergency has ended but its affordable housing emergency continues. New legislation shaped by the pandemic and championed by the mayor and city council would speed up the public approval process to create new low-and-middle-income apartment buildings by … Continue reading