Two 1901-built single family-style 11th Ave E homes just a few blocks off Broadway will make way for a new eight-story, 72-unit apartment building. The project faces its first design review this week.
The development from Coho Collaborative and sister company Cascade Built will cleave to Passive House certification requirements and is being planned under the city’s Priority Green Expedited program which requires Low VOC materials, building products with no added urea formaldehyde, and “measures which will enhance the health and comfort of the building occupants.” The “administrative” review of the building also means no meeting sessions will be held but public comment can still be provided to planners considering the early design proposal.
311 11th Ave E
Administrative Design Review for an 8-story, 72-unit apartment building. No parking proposed. View Design Proposal (18 MB)
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Designed by architects at Holst, the project will create an eight-story building with around 70 units in “a mix of one bedroom, studio, and Small Efficiency Dwelling Units.”
“Amenity spaces are provided in the form of a street-facing lobby and lounge area and a roof deck with views to downtown and the Olympic Mountains,” the developers write. “The preferred design concept also provides an indoor amenity space for residents on the 8th floor with an adjoining second roof deck and connection to the upper roof deck.”
No vehicle parking is planned but developers are asking for permission to move space for planned bike parking into the individual units. “Bicycle storage rooms are often under-utilized over concerns of personal safety and security of property; storage of bicycles inside units is a way to alleviate those concerns while still encouraging the use of alternate transportation methods,” the developers write.
The project will replace two 1901-built houses in an area zoned for midrise apartment buildings only blocks from Broadway and Capitol Hill Station and neighbor a remaining single family-style home and the 19006-built Sherbook Apartments. 11th Ave E is a busy center of activity with current development including a new affordable condo project from Habitat for Humanity.
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gross
It’s good to see that it completely overwhelms the neighboring properties. Or was that not what they were trying to show ?
So? make the nearby properties taller then.
Love this. More space for the people moving to Seattle, in our most walkable neighborhood.
I disagree with the developer’s belief that bike rooms are less preferable to in-unit storage. I chose an apartment building specifically bc of the secure bike room, so that I wouldn’t have to take up space in my apartment for my bikes.
I love how the developer talks about storing e-bikes in each units and features pictures of bikes hanging on walls.
Who do they think they are building these units for? Weight lifters?
They are proposing to have the bikes in units and count that towards requirements in the building codes ( i.e. they are asking that city waive building code ).
The proposal is yet another land grab to build before code/shade requirements/enforcement/etc catch up.
“Trump for Developers 101”
Densifyyyy! Single family homes and their “I was here first, so build somewhere else” mentality days are numbered. If you create more jobs in Seattle then you NEED more housing, period. Keep em coming!
this is the physical manifestations of someones investment portfolio it has very little to do with “people” or “housing”
Yes! We need to carefully preserve our radical, anti-capitalist single-family housing.
Spot-on.
well, yes, except for the part where the building is literally made up of housing units that people will live in…
this is simply a byproduct of this particular high yeild long term investment
This is a byproduct of people moving to a successful city and needing housing.
We live in a (mostly) Capitalist society, so somebody is going to make a profit off of meeting demand for housing.
When you “move soon”, you can probably get a screaming deal buying the properties they’re selling to move here!
Every single home in the city is part of someone’s portfolio. Why single out this one?
They need to build more and higher to increase the supply.
Oh that fits right in. The meeting is a chance to pressure them for alterations.
Love it! Let’s build more housing!
Hate it! It’s WAY out of proportion to its neighbors, and the lack of parking will make street parking that much more difficult. The juggernaut of “density at any cost” has got to be stopped!
Sorry everybody, there’s no room for you in Seattle because Bob doesn’t you to move here.
Another sad loss of historic Capitol Hill homes. I’m all for raising height limits along major commercial streets like Broadway, Olive, Madison, 15th and 19th, but an 8 story building on 11th Avenue seems inappropriate and greed based.
Glad to see dense housing being added to a location that will be a 3.5 block walk from the station and also close to bus stops. Seriously, if you lived here, it would be great to have a bike but no car. If they’re moving the bike parking, which is not a bad idea, I wish there would be a dedicated parking spot(s) provided by the building for a rideshare vehicle, to make it easy to use for infrequent errands. Hopefully there is also bike parking space for beater bikes in the garage area, even if it’s not as secure. You could also do fob access to small storage areas that have room for 4-5 bikes each, which should be pretty secure. For people who aren’t weightlifters, there are some tire lifts you can buy (not super cheap, but they do help you save space).
As a person who breathes, it would be so nice to live in a building built to these standards. I also wish each unit had an HRV that you could run to bring in fresh air without wasting energy.