West Seattle development: Tower crane removal; 4 project updates

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Five notes today:

CRANE COMING DOWN: Thanks to Eddie for the tip and an early photo – the crane at 135-apartment Broadstone Sky (40th/Edmunds) is coming down today, nine months after it went up. (That leaves two cranes in West Seattle – one at The Whittaker, one at the Trinsic project at 4435 35th SW.) Also coming down:

3829 CALIFORNIA SW DEMOLITION: Teardown started yesterday afternoon and continued this morning for this future site of a 29-unit, 29-offstreet-parking-space apartment building. While this project appeared to have stalled after Design Review approval in 2013, we reported back in March that it appeared to be back in play. It’s in the redevelopment-aplenty block of California, just steps south of the demolished-last-Friday Charlestown Court fourplex, and across the street from the much-vandalized, awaiting-demolition ex-Charlestown Café.

Also demolished this week for redevelopment:

(Photo courtesy Rob Jacobs)
4107 SW OREGON: On this site just east of the north end of the Oregon 42 apartment building, two buildings, each with two townhouses, will be built.

Also in The Junction:

PERMIT APPLICATION FOR 44TH SW MICROHOUSING: The 58-unit microhousing (aka Small Efficiency Dwelling Units) building at 4528 44th SW has officially applied for its master-use permit, and the notice will be in tomorrow’s Land Use Information Bulletin, according to the city website. The project passed Early Design Guidance in March (WSB coverage here).

5431 CALIFORNIA SW: New proposal for this mostly vacant lot between Alaska and Morgan Junctions: Three live-work units fronting California, a two-unit townhouse behind them, and two single-family houses behind that.

old timer May 27, 2015 (6:07 pm)

While on the bus the other morning, I noticed that there is work being done on the long abandoned foundation at Avalon & Yancy.

WSB May 27, 2015 (6:22 pm)

Yes! We keep forgetting to get a photo when checking our mailbox nearby. It’s been more than a year since we mentioned that documents indicated it was starting up again … https://westseattleblog.com/?p=263926

pat May 28, 2015 (8:12 am)

It is nice to know that the people that will work in WS will have places to live.
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Microhousing (aka Small Efficiency Dwelling Units)
SRO (aka Single Resident Occupancy hotel)
Studio/Bachelor apartment, (they usual have bathrooms)

Much further back those rooms were also named after the job of the workmen who rented them, can’t remember what that name was.

Rick May 28, 2015 (8:31 am)

Just remember, when you pluck one (crane) out, two more return in its place.

WSB May 28, 2015 (8:41 am)

The only crane-in-waiting, so to speak, would be the second crane expected on the Whittaker project at Fauntleroy/Alaska. Everything else in the works right now is craneless until and unless – possibly – some of the Harbor/Alki projects get going.

Rick May 28, 2015 (11:31 am)

Aw,c’mon,it’s just a gray hair analogy joke. Guess the sense of humor shift doesn’t start until noon? By the way, I don’t really believe the gray hair thing either.

Home again May 28, 2015 (2:11 pm)

@pat
Tenements? Railroad flats? Boarding houses? Serfs’ quarters? Rabbit hutches? Plus ça change.

pat May 28, 2015 (4:32 pm)

@Home again
Yes, Railroad flats!
“Face-to-face” in Nigeria, and “Houses in multiple occupation” (HMOs), or “Bedsit, Bedsitter” in the UK.
Oh yes. “Cage House” in Hong Kong. Like a large gym basket, but you can sleep in it and lock it up when you go to work…
But Microhousing sounds so hip, new and without historical baggage… might not be big enough for that.

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