DEVELOPMENT: West Seattle’s first tower crane in a year-plus, and 2 other notes

Three development notes tonight:

TOWER CRANE: For the first time in more than 14 months, West Seattle has a tower crane. The last one to come down was for the 1250 Alki SW Infinity Shore Club (WSB sponsor) condo project; as of this week, this one is up for the 4508 California 7-story mixed-use project. Work at the site has been under way for almost three months.

DESIGN REVIEW: A little more than one block west, the 4515 44th SW project is going into the next phase of Design Review, though without a public meeting, as it’s going through Administrative DR. It’s a four-story building with 43 microapartments and no offstreet parking. The design packet is linked from this city webpage; you can comment to the city’s assigned planner at theresa.neyton@seattle.gov.

AEGIS LIVING PROJECT: We reported last month that Aegis Living is buying and planning to develop the long-idle, much-vandalized 5242-5258 California SW site. Now it’s appeared in the city’s Early Outreach for Design Review pipeline, with a few more details via this description:

Construction of a 95-100 unit, five level Assisted Living Community. In-building parking for 40-50 cars. Project will pursue living building challenge environmental certification.

Aegis already has a location in West Seattle, at 4700 SW Admiral Way. The new site holds a former strip mall/office bulding and two former restaurants.

5 Replies to "DEVELOPMENT: West Seattle's first tower crane in a year-plus, and 2 other notes"

  • Eddie August 12, 2022 (7:43 am)

    Here, let me be the first: “No off-street parking! Oh, the humanity, think of the children, I can’t ride my bike with a chopsaw”We now return you to your regularly scheduled complaining. If this had been an actual emergency, you’d have been instructed to ……

  • PatWS August 12, 2022 (8:27 am)

    In the last section about the new Aegis assisted-living facility, could you clarify what the phrase “living building challenge environmental certification” means? I looked it up and couldn’t find anything. Thanks!

  • KM August 12, 2022 (11:07 am)

    Does anyone happen to know if the family who owned Kamei is opening a place closer to their home (Tacoma area?)         

    • Josue August 12, 2022 (1:49 pm)

      They retired!

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