The Seattle Design Review program isn’t dead yet but Wednesday night’s session for an eight-story, mixed-use project planned to rise along Capitol Hill’s E Olive Way provided a few more reasons why the process could change.
The development has been in the works for years after a massive 2019 real estate deal with Vancouver, Canada-based real estate investment and management company Low Tide Properties paying $21 million for a collection of commercial buildings including former Coldwell Banker offices and the former Fred Wildlife events space.
The east review board Wednesday night approved a small roster of updates to the project’s design in a meeting necessitated by the requirements to add an elevator and make a few changes to the development’s parking garage that emerged since the board looked at the design the first time in 2023. Continue reading