WEST SEATTLE DEVELOPMENT: Demolition under way for duplexes-to-rowhouses project at 61st/Admiral

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3:39 PM: Thanks to Peter for the photo and tip: Demolition of the three 1940s-built duplexes on the northeast corner of 61st/Admiral is under way. We first reported last October on the plan to replace them with 12 three-story rowhouse units, eight facing 61st and the other four facing Admiral. The Alki Parking Overlay requires one and a half offstreet-parking spaces per unit, so there will be 18 spaces, accessible from the alley to the east.

4:48 PM: Just went by. Two duplexes down, one remaining, and the crews appeared to be done for the day.

jane July 11, 2017 (4:13 pm)

this is super sad, those houses were so adorbs….

John July 11, 2017 (5:35 pm)

I’d recognize you anywhere, Jane. Who else says “adorbs”? Yes, it’s super sad. I just walked by there. :-(

Rick July 11, 2017 (5:07 pm)

Sadly, West Seattle’s vanishing character is not being replaced in kind. When it’s gone..it’s gone.

Mark July 11, 2017 (5:14 pm)

I hope the new houses are at least as nice as the cute beach cottages they just demolished, and not some ugly characterless cheap boxes that are sprouting up everywhere like weeds.

Swede. July 11, 2017 (6:50 pm)

They will likely look like everything else built nowadays and not fit in at all. And they are doubling the amount (6 to 12) right! Likely (at least) doubling their money too…

DirkDigs July 11, 2017 (7:25 pm)

Any new construction in the area will undoubtedly lack character. That isn’t the current model.

Row houses (town homes) going for 700k or more. Townhomes are actually a pretty smart idea for urban housing and can handle a family but they will not have character.

Denise July 11, 2017 (9:02 pm)

Awful, awful. Makes me sick!

Kravitz July 11, 2017 (9:46 pm)

Turns my stomach to see places like these succumb to deep development pockets. I’m a native Seattlelite, and I’m ready to bid Seattle adieu once and for all. It’s become a completely different city with a lack of respect or care for the people and places that originally put Seattle on the map and made people want to visit or live here.