West Seattle snow: “New waterfront condo”

December 22, 2008 at 12:56 pm | In West Seattle beaches, West Seattle news | 8 Comments

Putting up a few separate items before we top the home page with the “afternoon updates” post – this deserved a post of its own. “Admiral Skier,” who clearly is familiar with our intensive coverage of West Seattle development issues and projects in less-snowy times (all archived here, newest to oldest), e-mailed:

I was out on a ski around Alki today and came across a new waterfront condo. I don’t think this one went through the design review process, but maybe you saw the permit come up?

8 Comments

  1. HA HA! I don’t think that fits under the current city height requirements. Also needs more snowmobile parking spaces. :)

    Comment by B — December 22, 08 1:02 pm #

  2. call it low income housing and start the bidding at 400k!

    Comment by mike — December 22, 08 1:03 pm #

  3. Does anyone know how the Highland Park Wy hill is holding up? Has it been sanded? Thanks!

    Comment by Karen — December 22, 08 1:11 pm #

  4. I also saw a lovely larger snow condo complete with inflatable palm tree not far from this one. Sadly, no pictures to share, but keep a lookout for it (safely) if you are on the north end of Alki near Luna Park.

    Comment by Allison Carver — December 22, 08 1:13 pm #

  5. Karen: my husband made it up Highland Park Way about an hour ago with little difficulty. I haven’t gone to look at it myself, but 9th Ave is showing some bare spots where snow has melted off. I don’t know if Highland Park Way has actually been plowed/sanded, though.
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    Our Volvo has AWD, so far we haven’t needed to use the chains, for what that’s worth.

    Comment by datamuse — December 22, 08 1:25 pm #

  6. HA! That’s great. Mike, you’re not kidding, either. “Low income” indeed.

    Comment by Aim — December 22, 08 2:15 pm #

  7. The “other” igloo is/was? in the 1700 block on alki .. water side … pretty clever… folks packed the snow into a cooler making snow blocks to build with … I didn’t have a camera when by there either … dang… loved the palm tree touch!!!

    Comment by cleat — December 22, 08 2:52 pm #

  8. That “condo” looks a heckuvalot better than many of the condos that have popped up on Alki in the last couple of decades! ;)

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    Mike

    Comment by miws — December 22, 08 6:08 pm #

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