Demolition finally started this morning on the three remaining vacant, much-tagged houses at the 1250 Alki SW condo-project site. (Two other houses were moved and relocated, one in January 2018, the other in October 2018.) This site was originally proposed for 125 apartments four and a half years ago. The downsized 40-condo project just secured $43 million in financing, announced last week.
Pretty amazing to consider that space for 3 families (~12 people?) will be now be used for 40 families (~80 people?)! So goes West Seattle in general. I’m all for density personally. I hope our city council is working on innovative ways to accommodate the transportation, health care and services exponential growth that projects like this, that are very common in WS these days, bring. It’s happening faster than our current speed of innovation and resources is delivering.
Equally amazing–and I’m not 100% clear on the economics of condominiums, so correct me if I’m wrong–but $43MM in financing for 40 units means they’re all million dollar homes. Stunning!
Beautiful homes? Full of graffiti. Ok. I welcome the new homes for people to enjoy Alki. Usually people who can afford such a nice place to live rarely cause trouble and they add to the community.
Cycleman’s comment translation: Poor people cause crime, rich people do not. Ignorance at its best.
Glad to see those extremely tagged houses out of here. I live in a Alki Condo near the site. This will be a nice project with beautiful condo’s. As for affordability, I am sure they will all be million plus condo’s. They will be full of very well behaved adults who will spend money in our local community. Now if we could just get the Seattle Police Dept. to do their job and start ticketing the people who come here from out of the area to raise hell and drive cars with altered illegal exhaust systems. They drive around in lower gears and left off quickly on the throttle because they think people are impressed with their vehicles back firing and popping exhaust system. Them and the dam Harley’s.
You’re right. Rich people don’t cause “issues” *coughENRON. They don’t break laws, *coughMADOFF. And the are absolutely decent people, *coughEPSTIEN https://apnews.com/f995d90cbfd943169f74a0dbb3b1eadc Jeesh, sorry about the coughing, there must be some dust or something in here.
This is definitely a “gentrified” Alki – not the Alki I grew up in and loved!! Alki and Beach Drive were all originally vacation homes, not year round residences. Me? I miss the Alki where we all knew each other, the only eatery was Spud’s except for the soda fountain at Seaside Pharmacy. Traffic and noise? It’s been there since the 60’s so if you bought a condo there, you have only yourself to blame! I miss the old quaint Alki and enjoy it when summer is over and it’s relatively quiet again.
Sadly most of Seattle is gentrified now. I truly miss the Seattle of the mid-1990’s. This Seattle is a completely new city. It’s a very white, wealthy city. There was room for diversity and mixed incomes before big tech.
We have two of these sweet little houses next door, no one has lived in them for 20 years (very sadly). They’re condemned now, very unsafe. I’ll be sad to see them go, but excited to see something go up in their stead — if only to increase my property value.I wish cute beach houses would be built in their place. Sadly I know it will be another condo. They’ve just sat for about 20 years. I wish there were a law about how long these structures could just sit. They’re very unsafe.
A law against letting houses just sit uninhabited, in poor condition, just sitting and rotting for extended periods, should be on the books. Most have high, ugly, industrial style cyclone fencing all around them. I wouldn’t’ want to have to live next to them. It is a blight on the look of the community. Plus there is a new law on books regarding loud exhaust and loud music. It just needs to be enforced. Sorry for some the current Alki Beach doesn’t look like the one they grew up with, but neither does many other areas. Harlem does look like it did in the 60’s either.
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