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 Board will focus on the general concept and massing of the proposal while important details around materials and the final look and feel of the project will be hammered out in the second “recommendation” phase of the review.
Studio Meng Strazzara is leading design on the development and will present multiple concepts for the general massing of the development at the January 24th review including a preferred design that “continues the character of the Broadway E. corridor massing vernacular” with a U-shape concept.
You can learn more about providing public comment on the building’s massing and design concepts here.
CHS reported here on the plans for the 121-unit, apartment building with street level commercial space and 3 live-work units plus underground parking for 127 vehicles in the 600 block of Broadway E.
The more than 100-year-old structure home to Bait Shop and TRIBE Fitness would be demolished to make way for the project. The building was once home to vaunted Broadway dive the Jade Pagoda before a 2010-era overhaul. Around the block, a collection of old-stock housing including a duplex, triplex, four-plex, and a circa 1908 15-unit apartment building would also be demolished for the development. The corner’s Diamond parking lot would also be part of the proposed project’s footprint.
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I’ll certainly be calling in. If you’re going to build up this block, it’s insane not to build up on ALL the worthless parking lots and open the interior to pedestrian (or at the very least resident) use. The U shape makes no sense except as the smallest possible concession to not building a solid cube. It’s shortsighted, plainly done out of expedience, and doesn’t meet a bunch of the guidelines in the Seattle design review docs.
so the developer should be required to buy the other lots? or are we talking eminent domain takings here or something? i’m confused about how this kind of thing would be in the seattle design review docs
So they’re tearing down current housing to build new housing while a gaping hole in the ground where housing used to be has been sitting empty for two years a block away? Got it.
Where’s the gaping hole two blocks away?
The only thing that jumps to mind is that vacant lot of federal and republican that’s been empty for a bit.
total amount of housing being built here would be larger than everything torn down here + the few blocks away by several multiples
You are probably referring to the lots at the NW corner of Federal and Mercer, where the demolition was at least two years ago, and where one of the buildings was affordable housing (Seattle Housing Authority). I know that planning, permits etc. can take awhile, but it’s ridiculous that construction has taken so long.
The other nearby site is at Federal and Republican, where demolition was more recent.
Depressing as hell