February 19, 2021 This is the latest design of a Seattle tower that a company from Taiwan has been working on since acquiring the quarter-block property in 2015. Chainqui Development paid about $33.7 million for the property at Fifth Avenue and Virginia Street. The city has...
Rendering by Jensen Design Architects [enlarge]The new project would replace four old houses. By BRIAN MILLERReal Estate Editor The non-landmarked but locally beloved Alki icon “Rock House” (aka “Stone House”), at 1123 Harbor Ave. S.W., is slated to be relocated. West Seattle Blog recently reported that volunteers from the Alki Beach...
Rendering by MZAIn this view, looking north, the now separately owned Mira Flats is immediately behind Create World’s second planned building. By BRIAN MILLERReal Estate Editor The second planned phase of a Bellevue condominium project, now dubbed Altaire, is showing some signs of progress at 10232 N.E. 10th St.,...
Rendering by MZA [enlarge]This view of the proposed apartments looks northeast. By BRIAN MILLERReal Estate Editor The corner at 106 N.W. 36th St. in Fremont, appears bound for redevelopment. North America Asset Management Group is the developer of record; it will either buy the property or partner with the current owner. MZA is...
Rendering by MZA [enlarge]Owner Chainqui has changed architects once, and been through at least nine design options for the corner. By BRIAN MILLERReal Estate Editor Five years ago, Chainqui Development paid about $33.7 million for a corner site at 2005 Fifth Ave., at Virginia Street in Belltown. Plans for knocking down...
By BRIAN MILLERReal Estate Editor Between 2014 and 2017, using LLCs, Eastside investor Jia Niu paid about $8.1 million to assemble a row of old houses on the north tip of West Seattle. Now there's a redevelopment proposal for 1116 Alki Ave S.W., which spans six parcels between the...
By LYNN PORTERJournal Staff Reporter Landscape architect Karen Kiest said she expects the 6-feet-away mandate of the COVID-19 pandemic will impact Americans even when it's gone. “We're never going to forget social distancing,” said Kiest, who owns Seattle-based Karen Kiest Landscape Architects “I think it's going to imprint...
By LYNN PORTERJournal Staff Reporter Architecture firms Weber Thompson of Seattle and MZA of Bellevue are helping supply face shields and goggles to fight the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic locally. Over a two-week period, Weber Thompson plans to print 100 bands — the rigid plastic piece to which...
By JOURNAL STAFF SEATTLE — Part of the parapet sloughed off last month at the Prefontaine Building, at 110 Prefontaine Place S. in Pioneer Square. There were no reported injuries from the crumbling masonry on the century-old building's north side, facing Yesler Way. However, a corner bus stop...
By Michelle Baruchman Seattle Times Traffic Lab engagement editor For the past five years, Craig Davenport has left his home in Mukilteo by 5:30 a.m. weekdays to beat Interstate 405 traffic on his way to his architecture firm in Bellevue. These days Davenport sleeps a little later and...
