(King County Assessor’s Office photo)
More south West Seattle redevelopment: That 99-year-old house at 9238 20th SW [map] is proposed to be replaced by an 8-unit rowhouse/townhouse project, with 8 offstreet-parking spaces. Nearby resident Colleen tipped us after an Early Design Review Community Outreach flyer arrived via mail. It points to this website, which includes the design packet by John Trieger Architects, as well as a survey.
This bullshit has to stop. How on earth can this city continue to take a single-family home and quadruple the occupancy?! STOP! There is not enough room in West Seattle. Because you can build it doesn’t mean you should. This is out of control.
They may want to put this one on hold until we know the economy is stable, oh, and there is a decent way out of the neighborhood… Otherwise they’ll likely lose their shirts.
*sigh* This construction won’t be completed for YEARS. After the bridge is reopened. Why does everyone invoke the “Seattle Process” in their dire predictions of how long the bridge will be out and then panic like housing proposals created right now are going to get ANYWHERE near construction this year? It doesn’t make any sense. The design review process takes a while, y’all.
We don’t know if the bridge will be reopened. It may be too costly to rebuild and reopen; It depends on what the engineers find and recommend. But in the present environment, I could see a lot of building projects being put on hold due to our present and possibly not resolvable for a long time “black swan” events.
Every time one of these development posts come up someone says we need to stop construction until the bridge is figured out. I think AMD’s point is that many of these projects take years from concept to permit in hand to finished construction. It’s possible the bridge is repaired, it’s possible it’s not but that risk is up to the developer. Real estate in West Seattle is still strong and people still want to live here even if it takes a little longer to get home right now.
It takes a couple of years to get something built around here anyway…by that time….demand will be back if not sooner.
I imagine the people who sold those single family homes would disagree with you.
If these buildings are constructed, more will follow. The time to stop it is now. Keep single family homes in West Seattle before they become a relic. Developers seem to be running this town and it has to stop.
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