THURSDAY AT DESIGN REVIEW: See the packet for Junction Landing, 4417 42nd SW

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Next up at the Southwest Design Review Board: Thursday at 6:30 pm, board members will take their next look at the Junction Landing apartment project, 4417 42nd SW [map], a short distance north of the same West Seattle developers’ Junction Flats. The packet for Thursday’s review, from architects Nicholson Kovalchick, is now available – see it (PDF) on the city website, or embedded below:

Junction Landing proposes 58 apartments, 4 live-work units, with 29 underground parking spaces (accessed from the alley), in a four-story building, replacing three houses built in the 1930s. This is its second and potentially final Design Review; the project received Early Design Guidance approval at its first review last May. There will be a public-comment period during Thursday’s meeting, which is upstairs at the Senior Center/Sisson Building (4217 SW Oregon)

coffeedude January 16, 2018 (4:14 pm)

Another ugly box. ick

JB January 16, 2018 (5:16 pm)

Again no off street parking to speak of. With the 3 large churches around there, good luck on going to church! Why is the city letting this happen!

Rick January 16, 2018 (5:55 pm)

Surrender Dorothy!

WestSeattleCoug January 16, 2018 (5:56 pm)

Parking at Holy Rosary will just get worse and worse…

Out for a Walk January 16, 2018 (7:59 pm)

All these proposed buildings look the same. :-( And, with limited on-site parking, too.

It’s so sad. What can be done to stop the uniformity? The neighborhood needs to retain its special character that is it rapidly loosing. Why not require street level cafes’, local merchant shops (not national type chain) and similar businesses at the street level which will promote community?

KM January 17, 2018 (8:21 am)

Some of these building add those shops you are taking about. Ground floor retail can exist in old and new buildings.

As for uniformity, I agree they tend to look a lot alike. But so do most neighborhoods when they are built up, even historically. Hard to walk down a block and not see several Craftsman homes, or in Fauntleroy Hills and see brick mid-century. My floor plan is exactly the same as my neighbors for our 1940s homes. It is just a matter of taste & preference, really. I personaly dislike single family Craftsman homes the way people dislike new bulky apartments. To each their own.
- KM January 17, 2018 (8:52 am)
  
  *Fauntlee hills (darn autocorrect)
geographer January 17, 2018 (1:21 pm)

Wouldn’t street level retail cause even greater problems for parking?