My Ballard » early design review http://www.myballard.com News, events and restaurant guide for Seattle's Ballard neighborhood Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:41:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Early Design Guidance meeting for Ballard’s largest proposed development http://www.myballard.com/2011/05/19/early-design-guidance-meeting-for-ballards-largest-proposed-development/ http://www.myballard.com/2011/05/19/early-design-guidance-meeting-for-ballards-largest-proposed-development/#comments Thu, 19 May 2011 20:58:30 +0000 Geeky Swedes http://www.myballard.com/?p=30028 A six-story building with 300 residential units, 453 parking spaces underground and more than 15,000 square feet of retail and seven live/work units is proposed for Market Street. If built, this will be Ballard’s largest development to date.

The project site is orange, the arrows represent the primary views from the site.

The site takes up the majority of the 2400 block of Market and five buildings will be torn down including the old Jacobsen’s Marine building (now Maritime’s) and the former Archie McPhee building.

Of the three concepts to be presented, this is the preferred concept.

On Monday evening at 6:30 in the Ballard High School library, the Design Review Board will meet with planners and present information about the site. The meeting is open to the public and the public will have the opportunity to offer comments. So far developers have not applied for any permits for this project.

You can see the entire presentation here (.pdf).

]]> http://www.myballard.com/2011/05/19/early-design-guidance-meeting-for-ballards-largest-proposed-development/feed/ 45 Design Review meeting for Compass Center http://www.myballard.com/2010/02/08/design-review-meeting-for-compass-center-tonight/ http://www.myballard.com/2010/02/08/design-review-meeting-for-compass-center-tonight/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:55:23 +0000 Geeky Swedes http://www.myballard.com/?p=15742 Monday night is the Early Design Review (EDR) meeting for the Compass Center building for 1753 NW 56th St. According to the meeting notice, “The proposal is for a seven story, 57,000 sq. ft. building containing 80 low income housing units, offices and meeting spaces (Compass Center). Parking for 14 vehicles will be within the structure.”

The EDR is the first opportunity for designers to offer their ideas for the site and vicinity to the Design Review Board. The photo above is one rendering from tonight’s presentation (.pdf) that Weinstein A|U will give to the board. The Board will offer their opinions and there will be opportunity for public comment. The meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. at the Ballard High School library.

This is the same lot where this eyesore was torn down last year. Compass Center hopes to break ground on this new project later this year.

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