West Seattle development: New renderings, ‘packet’ as 3210 California SW returns to Design Review

This Thursday (November 21st), 3210 California SW – the biggest development on the drawing boards for the greater Admiral area – goes back to the Southwest Design Review Board, 6:30 pm at the Senior Center of West Seattle (California/Oregon). In advance of that meeting, developer Intracorp has gone public with new renderings that are not in the “packet” published online in advance of the meeting. Above, the full length of the project facade; below,

And this is a rendering of the retail courtyard.

The project’s packet is here; it says they’re currently proposing 149 units, 168 parking spaces, with 3,700 square feet of live-work space, 4,200 square feet of retail space. The last review was in June; our details of that meeting are part of this July roundup. Thursday’s meeting will include a public-comment period, and will be followed by the 8 pm review of 3078 Avalon Way SW.

Mr Elliott November 18, 2013 (9:45 pm)

My God these buildings are huge.

anonyme November 19, 2013 (6:31 am)

I was thinking the same thing. They look like the corporate monstrosities that ruined the Fremont waterfront.

Neighbor November 19, 2013 (7:35 am)

Yes, the building is HUGE. Five stories tall on a street that was zoned for three until Cayce & Gain got it upzoned to four in 2007-8, and then sold to developers who got it up to five by averaging the slope of this enormous, six-parcel lot. This is bigger than anything in the Junction or other truly commercial areas of the neighborhood (i.e. areas that do not directly abut single family homes, like this does). If you think this project is wildly out of scale for this part of West Seattle, please please come to the Design Review meeting on Thursday and be heard.

Neighbor November 19, 2013 (7:46 am)

I Love it! Great design and modulation. It’s nice to see a new development that is providing more parking than number of units. Very well done and a fabulous improvement to this block of rundown buildings. Bravo to the developer.

onion November 19, 2013 (7:48 am)

Be grateful they are including slightly more parking spaces than apartments. I suspect that in a few years taxpayers will be footing the bill for one or two parking garages in the Junction.

Neighbor November 19, 2013 (9:14 am)

To be fair, the building does look shorter than the existing building to the left in the picture. Sure will be interesting to see this stretch of California change.

WSB November 19, 2013 (9:21 am)

Just to be clear if you haven’t been following this project … the entirety of the top photo IS this one building – which from that side will appear as three (one of the consistent critiques throughout the process so far has been the length of its face – 400+ feet). – Tracy

Neighbor November 19, 2013 (9:33 am)

“To be fair” Neighbor, the artistic rendering showing in this story is not accurate with regard to the height of surrounding buildings (and it isn’t intended to be). The proposed development will be much taller than the existing building to the left of it (Olympic Apts). Look at pages 21 and 30 of the packet (north elevation), which shows the actual height of the development compared to the existing Olympic Apartment building (in orange).

birdgeek November 19, 2013 (9:53 am)

Thanks for providing a link to the project packet. I’m intrigued by all the consideration being given to trying to be good neighbors. Too bad there isn’t much bus service in that part of West Seattle anymore. :(

wetone November 19, 2013 (12:10 pm)

149 units, 168 parking spots and who knows if that 168 is a hard number most likely not. Now take into consideration they have commercial space along with live and work spaces. Both will most likely need additional parking for cliental. Add that there is many 2bdr units along with how many of the 1bdr units will be occupied by 2 adults that might drive and have cars. The parking spots the city allows for these new buildings only fit small cars. All this means there will be a large percentage of vehicles being added to the streets, an area that has parking issues already. Traffic in the area will also be impacted greatly, especially during commute hours causing people to use side streets and creating more problems. This project is to just to big for the area. Design Board meetings are for input on Design only. Board members do nothing for parking issues, views being blocked, traffic that will impact the neighborhood. But people need to go ask questions and show their unhappiness with this project.

JackmanJay November 19, 2013 (10:08 pm)

This looks awesome! I’m so excited to see development move to the North End. We where all skeptical about the Safeway development -and what a fine project that turned out to be. Bring on the new blood and people that will spend money in WS.