Design review reminder: Whole Foods, Broadstone First Hill buildings

The Broadstone First Hill development. Where are those guys going?

Wednesday night will feature a solid three hours or so of talking and planning about First Hill’s future.

We’ve already told you quite a bit about the 16-story, mixed-use Whole Foods building destined to open at Broadway and Madison in 2018. It will be on the design review docket Wednesday night. But so too will be the 8-story, 338-unit gargantuan Broadstone First Hill, slated to rise where a much smaller apartment building and a parking lot call home today at Terry and James just off Broadway. Between the two, we’re talking about projects that will create more than 600 new apartment units in the neighborhood.

Judging by the number of babies in the renderings, First Hill growth is a theme. Here is how developers Alliance Realty Partners and Encore Architects describe the project:

The Broadstone First Hill project will infill a vacant site in the burgeoning First Hill Neighborhood. We are excited to add housing density to the area as well as provide some significant public amenity spaces. Our building will be first to engage with the recently adopted First Hill Public Realm Action Plan (PRAP). Generous setbacks will provide two pocket parks adjacent to the main entrance and retail space for a new restaurant or pub.

“In our prelimary (sic) analysis of the neighborhood we recognize that although there is recent transformation ocurring (sic) that there is a strong architectural narrative focused on low rise, brick residential buildings,” they write. “Our building relates to this lineage through materiality, scale, and nuanced pedestrian details. We seek to evoke the history of the community and enhance the typology’s relationship to the broader urban context.”

With. A lot. Of babies. Even babies at night:

The Broadstone First Hill project will be sibling to Broadstone Infinity building now open on E Union between 10th and 11th and home to 250 or so apartment units plus a triumvirate of Renee Erickson food+drink venues. Unlike, Infinity, Broadstone First Hill won’t benefit from the generous preservation bonuses of Pike/Pine but that doesn’t mean it won’t honor the past:

1001 James Street

Land Use Application to allow an 8-story, 338 unit apartment building with 5,320 sq. ft. of retail located at ground level. Parking for 285 vehicles is to be provided below grade. Existing apartment building to be demolished.

View Design Proposal  (152 MB)