Two things popular in the worst of times: cheap food and low-income housing. Here are two projects to deliver just those necessities to north Seattle.
There was a creek and 16 town houses south of the Fred Meyer in Lake City (a couple blocks from the intersection of Northeast 125th Street and Lake City Way Northeast). But the creek flooded the town houses. The residents fled, the city rerouted the creek, and now the Seattle Housing authority plans to rebuild at a higher density, says housing authority spokeswoman Virginia Felton. Here’s the site currently:
SHA proposes 86 apartments for people who make “very low” incomes. Fifty-one of the apartments are subsidized by a $10.4 million HUD grant for poeple making 30 percent or less of the county median income; 35 apartments are reserved for folks making 60 percent or less of the area median. In addition, 12 market-rate apartments are tossed into the mix—for a total of 98 apartments. And here’s the Lego-looking early draft design for Lake City Village by Hewitt:
A mile west, Safeway is wrapping up the design for a newer, greener, more-house-shaped Safeway. Jonah’s written about the dilapidated old Safeway and controversy around the new one over here. And this is the new design:
Looks good, for a Safeway.
Heck, they’re talking about $189 million streetcars and you’re worried about what shows up above a Safeway?
… um, ok …
Will, my good man, what are you talking about? Nothing is above the Safeway, there’s nothing being complained about, and this has nothing to do with streetcars.
I like, I like. Oh wait, this is Slog.
These plans SUCK SUCK SUCK! AARGHH NEW THINGS NO!!
DY-NO-MITE!
You mean they got rid of the roof I see in the pic, Dom?
Um, it does kind of rain here …
Just out of curiosity, what happened to the creek? Remember the 20-year-long foofaraw over daylighting Thornton Creek up by Northgate? Why didn’t that happen here?
Fnarf, I’m not sure where it runs now. Felton says she believes the city rerouted it through another property.
the post makes no geographic sense. this site is east of value village, not 2 blocks north next to fred meyer. there used to be a thrift store there.
the “start” of thornton creek is southeast of here in an empty lot off 35th ave. NE.
& hewitt’s image is just 1 of 3 EDG required options. probably the preferred massing, but one must placate design review, mustn’t one?
I LOVE that they are combining different-income apartments!! Hooray for community!
So they just “rerouted it”, and no one really knows where, or how it’s doing? Seems fishy, or rather non-fishy, to me.
Thanks, Max. It’s south of Fred Meyer. The record is corrected.
Where does this architectural software come from, Phoenix AZ?? Look at those shadows. We get a sun angle like that maybe one day a year, if then.
@6 – city council killed that a while back.
bastards.
That ridiculous suburban safeway is soooooo early 90’s. Has the mixed-use fad not made it that far north yet?
@13, Will: what the fuck? I mean really, what the fucking fuck?
Why do they have to make one building look like four? Is that suppose to make it seem less offensive?
Yes, it is supposed to make it less offensive, by making you think it’s really multiple buildings.
Will in Seattle is going completely insane. I like it.
@18… going? That ship sailed long ago.