DEVELOPMENT UPDATES: 1116 Alki, 6007 California

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Two updates on development sites we’ve mentioned before in their earliest stages:

(Image courtesy Google Maps/Street View)

1116 ALKI SW: It’s been almost a year since we first mentioned an early-stage concept for “50 to 65” residential units replacing houses on six lots including the one with the official project address. Now it’s officially entering the Early Design Guidance phase of Design Review, and the description has firmed up to “a six-story residential building with 65 units, 100 parking stalls, and a rooftop terrace.” (The Alki area has a “parking overlay” that requires one and a half spaces for each residential unit.) The formal comment period hasn’t opened yet, but if you have a question, there’s a project-contact email address in this notice.

6007 CALIFORNIA SW: Four days ago, we mentioned the early-stage site plan for a four-story mixed-use building to replace the preschool and fourplex on this site in north Morgan Junction. No new details on the plan yet, but the project team has just launched a webpage and hotline for community comment as part of the “early outreach” requirements.

Auntie March 19, 2021 (9:29 pm)

So sad to see these little homes swept away. My first rental house after graduating high school was on Alki, $105 a month for a one-bedroom house. Soon there will be nothing left but condos for those who can afford them. Welcome to Sausalito.

John March 19, 2021 (10:15 pm)

The city has to stop allowing this! It’s driving up property values and preventing affordable housing.

JB March 19, 2021 (10:40 pm)

Huh? When has waterfront property been considered to be affordable.
- John March 20, 2021 (11:36 am)
  
  It was more affordable before they started tearing them down and putting in $8 million condo buildings. That pushes up the price of property taxes and land value in the whole area making it harder for the people that have lived in those homes to stay there for resulting in homes further inland to become more desirable and more expensive. It’s a cascading effect and it needs to stop
  - Mark H March 20, 2021 (11:45 am)
    
    By what means? The city can’t downzone at this point. Why can’t they develop like the neighbors?Shoehorning 100 parking spaces makes this more a garage project.

ktrapp March 19, 2021 (10:59 pm)

I’m going to note that for all the talk of “affordable housing”, condos are about the only way most people would be able to afford to own a place down there. If you check places like Redfin or Zillow, any one of those houses go for well north of a million dollars.Here’s one going for $1.7 million. It’s silly to think that a single family home on some of the most prime real estate in the city could somehow be “affordable.” Are even the condos down there reasonably priced? Nope! Welcome to Alki!

Huh? March 20, 2021 (11:57 pm)

It’s going for $1.7M because it’s being sold as a teardown to be replaced with condos. There are even renderings of a condo building in the real estate listing that you linked.

anonyme March 20, 2021 (7:13 am)

While most waterfront property has a high value, Alki has never been posh. The ramshackle old buildings and shacks are what gave the area character – something that has no value these days (if it ever did). Unfortunately, most Americans seem enamored of the shiny and new – no matter how ugly, or what is lost or destroyed in the process of making it.

Mark H March 20, 2021 (11:49 am)

Take a look at that photo. The cars.The parking overlay requires more spaces than anywhere in the city on private property. Look at the one on the left – they have two parking spaces used for a trailer and junk storage and they park illegally on the planting strip at 90 degrees immediately off an arterial.

Rick March 20, 2021 (12:36 pm)

I lived in homes on Duwamish Head for over 30 years and they’re all gone now. Progress. If ya got the dollars.

namercury March 20, 2021 (8:39 pm)

I remember when the first, The Alki Bonair, went up (approximately 1975). There was a big controversy over the height limit. Notice they are all at that height now. All of Alki was those little cottages that I understand were originally summer cottages for the Seattle rich going to Alki beach and the amusement park.

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