Buildings demolished at 15th and Market

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Update 10:30 a.m. The blue house on the same lot as the old Denny’s is now a pile of rubble, and demolition crews are now taking apart the building next door. The demolition clears the way for Market Street Landing to begin construction on the lot at the corner of 15th and Market St.

The blue house was the first to go.

And now the crane is demolishing the building next door.

Here’s video shot just after 7 a.m. as workers first began to take down the house. And Silver shot this clip of the demolition a couple hours later. Fourteen months ago, crews demolished the Denny’s restaurant in the same lot. No word on when construction on Market Street Landing will begin.

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28 thoughts to “Buildings demolished at 15th and Market”

  3. This just in:

    Woman with grey hair, suspected to be SILVER out in front taking photos.

    It is not known at this time if she had the fabled MyBallard radio scanner on her, with any associated manuals.

    In other news, an ambulance was parked adjacent to the house demolishing. MyBallard poster SeattleMedic may or may not be inside, possibly sleeping or contemplating selling rides in the ambulance for a little extra scratch.

  4. have seen crews at the old sunset bowl prepping for its demolotion removing inside copper piping etc.. not sure when they will demo though

  8. Yep, the worst part of that deal is that it was a fully profitable business and could have still been operating for this past year. I guess the same could be said for the Denny's too.

  9. I'd love to see more re use too, but from the looks of that house I don't think it ever had much to offer in the way of quality materials. You could get a few beams out of it maybe, but nothing that would financially justify the effort to disassemble it. Hopefully all the material that they're demolishing today will go to a sorting facility and not straight to the landfill.

  10. I'm probably the only one who misses that Great Clips. I could've had my hair cut many times over in the time it's taking them to do anything with that little building.

  11. They are busy doing the interior demo and asbestos abatement. It won't come down until they are done, don't know when that is either.

  16. Next building that needs to be demoed – the old Ballard Library. This dark, dreary, and graffiti laden structure needs to go – STAT!

  19. HEY… I was not sleeping inside. Thanks for the idea of ambulance rides… could make the society some money on the side. but I dont think the insurance would cover it. we could have it show up for birthday parties or pick you up if your too drunk to drive home

  20. I know the folks that bought the Sunset. They closed it because of what happened down the street at the Denny's. The costs alone of fighting the stupid landmarks process was enough for them to forgo the potential income of running the business until it was really about to start/break ground.

    If you want to know who to blame, the fingers could easily be pointed at the overzealous citizens who fought for the landmark status when it clearly was not a landmark.

  21. Hate to watch that corner change so much, but that's what happens, although that little blue building was very cute.

    Really loath the fact that the Denny's site has been an eyesore for, what, 18 months now? If it's to sit empty for so long, at least turn it into a temporary peapatch or park of some kind.

  22. Ballard does not rock now. It does rock snow though. so i will give you that.

    I am not trying to argue with you on this one but you are saying that if sunset bowl stayed open people would have tried to say it was a landmark (due to it's classic “institutional cinder block” style of architecture???) just to keep it open or not torn down of whatever. But closing it would save them money because… uh… it would..

    i am sorry but your statement made no sense. The landmark process in Seattle is stupid easy to get around and their was a very short and reasonable fight over figuring out whether the googie style was worth saving. If the twin tepees didn't get saved though, the second largest denny's wasn't going to be saved. I barely cared but I didn't want to see the only two late night underage places in ballard to close. Especially for the painfully pedestrian and pointless buildings that are going in soon. It's too bad now kids have to gather in basements and do what kids do when they have no outlet. Sex and drugs. rad. That was my childhood in Maltby. Good times. Thanks to the poor almost victimized “folks” you know for all the coming abortions.

  23. It's my understanding that the Twin Tepees was never nominated for landmark status and then the owner tore it down without any warning.

  25. I bet that those rats that lived in those buildings are going to run straight into those brand new condos, shame. I bet some people in the neighborhood know to have poison ready. Rock and roll all night!

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