WEST SEATTLE DEVELOPMENT: Key approvals for 4754 Fauntleroy Way SW

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(Edmunds side of The Foundry – rendering by Mithun)

On the same day that 4722 Fauntleroy Way SW goes to the Southwest Design Review Board, its future neighbor “The Foundry,” at 4754 Fauntleroy, has received key city approvals. The notice is the only major one for West Seattle in today’s Land Use Information Bulletin. The project on the ex-pawn-shop site at Fauntleroy/Edmunds will include 108 apartments, 10 live-work units, and 103 underground parking spaces. The notice (see it here) explains the decisions – determination of environmental non-significant, and finalization of its design review (here’s our coverage of the final meeting last April). It also sets August 3rd as the deadline for appeals.

M July 20, 2017 (12:19 pm)

I’m worried about all the people who will have to turn left on that street and what it will do to everyone else traveling southbound on Fauntleroy.

Another John July 20, 2017 (12:39 pm)

M,

You’re forgetting that the City Planners have it fixed in their heads that there will be no cars….everyone living at this new development and surrounding developments will take the bus.
- WSB July 20, 2017 (12:46 pm)
  
  On this stretch, the big buildings have parking – ~600 spaces for The Whittaker, ~250 for 4722 Fauntleroy (the one going to Design Review tonight), 100+ for the subject of this story. An interesting issue we’ve been pondering is Edmunds becoming even more of an arterial, especially once the businesses in The Whittaker open (even without Whole Foods – which, no, hasn’t been replaced yet, we keep asking – there are still a half-dozen-plus businesses going in). – TR
  - S&F July 20, 2017 (1:35 pm)
    
    I heard from the developer that was at my lease signing that the WF space is splitting at a box generic pet store is going in…
    
    Edmunds is a disaster too!
    - WSB July 20, 2017 (1:48 pm)
      
      The rumors have been many. Would seem an odd play for a pet store to go in across the street from Petco, but then again, we were going to have a grocery store across the street from two other grocery stores …

Another John July 20, 2017 (2:03 pm)

I will admit the building in the picture really looks like it’s already there. Amazing what can be done today. They need to add the bumper to bumper traffic too.

Chris_80 July 20, 2017 (2:23 pm)

What a great looking building. The density that these several new developments will provide will be great for the neighborhood – should attract new businesses to the area

Vanessa July 20, 2017 (5:23 pm)

Yes, amazing fake photography…..can and will never believe pictures of anything anymore….I know, it’s been like photoshopping, photo chopping, what ever it’s gonna be called. Groan, groan, groan, is there no stopping of the development? The traffic just gets worse and worse. And us old dinosaurs can’t all ride bikes to the bank and the store. Yeah, I know, online banking, online grocery shopping. I gotta get outta the house once in awhile. Groan, groan, groan…the banging begins every morning at 7am. That’s progress. Phooey.

Barbara Greenlee July 20, 2017 (5:42 pm)

Recall no “foundry” at the site on my many slogs past it to Jefferson School and the Junction over the years, just mud puddles and delicious blackberries in their seasons. What gives with the unappealingly industrial name? We were just a little neighborhood once. So our history is rewritten, block by block.

TJ July 20, 2017 (7:20 pm)

At least there is respectable parking for this. Too bad the city doesn’t care about moving cars though. They could care less about adding infrastructure for the added traffic. They’ll just restrict more lanes with dedicated bike and bus lanes, and maybe throw in a “road diet” for icing.

WSB July 20, 2017 (7:42 pm)

The owners of The Whittaker across the street deliberately set their building back so there would be room for a bicycle lane.

Swede. July 20, 2017 (9:44 pm)

I think it looks pretty good. Nothing special or so but also not horrid. The people living behind it, in its shadow, on 38th Ave. might differ on that though.

Toocrowded July 20, 2017 (10:03 pm)

Not everyone uses those parking spots. In most buildings they do not ‘come with’ your monthly rent, it’s additional. A lot of rentors are not using them because they are too small and expensive so they park in the surrounding neighborhoods.

Swede. July 20, 2017 (11:26 pm)

They will be extra guaranteed. I live right around there and the parking is another $105/month on top of the silly rent. I park on the street… Well, not if I get home in the morning since then it’s packed by everyone’s cars that take the Rapidride C-line. This is the unofficial Park-n-ride lot.

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