Yippee! Another sterile collection of relatively nondescript boxes. EXACTLY what Seattle needs, right?
And, in a city where policymakers swear we don’t have enough land, could they not have included a lot more units with a few more floors?
Love the creative use of color to jazz up what can be a bleak looking Autumn-Winter-Spring! [oh wait, they used Home Depot default colors]
The embellishment and ornamentation look top notch [read: don’t exist]
But the landscaping looks amazing! [not].
Another missed opportunity. Seattle needs new planning and development stewardship that possesses and coaxes vision from developers. This? This is vision-less, ‘market rate’ [read: expensive] profit-driven, cookie cutter whateverness.
This would be good enough if it was built by the city as affordable housing. It’s not. I voted for i-135 due to this simple fact alone: it will almost certainly produce better-than-this housing that is ‘green’er and much more affordable.
There was a time, long ago, when developers had enough pride to up their game, if only to show off that they were better.
I’m sure there will be low-bar defenders of this but those folks should really get out more, travel and see what’s possible (or, admit they shill for those who build this drivel]. Far better is possible, without killing profits.
Hopefully, the new Safeway will be their very best store yet, at least (which would still make it so-so by Seattle standards)
Yippee! Another sterile collection of relatively nondescript boxes. EXACTLY what Seattle needs, right?
And, in a city where policymakers swear we don’t have enough land, could they not have included a lot more units with a few more floors?
Love the creative use of color to jazz up what can be a bleak looking Autumn-Winter-Spring! [oh wait, they used Home Depot default colors]
The embellishment and ornamentation look top notch [read: don’t exist]
But the landscaping looks amazing! [not].
Another missed opportunity. Seattle needs new planning and development stewardship that possesses and coaxes vision from developers. This? This is vision-less, ‘market rate’ [read: expensive] profit-driven, cookie cutter whateverness.
This would be good enough if it was built by the city as affordable housing. It’s not. I voted for i-135 due to this simple fact alone: it will almost certainly produce better-than-this housing that is ‘green’er and much more affordable.
There was a time, long ago, when developers had enough pride to up their game, if only to show off that they were better.
I’m sure there will be low-bar defenders of this but those folks should really get out more, travel and see what’s possible (or, admit they shill for those who build this drivel]. Far better is possible, without killing profits.
Hopefully, the new Safeway will be their very best store yet, at least (which would still make it so-so by Seattle standards)