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Early Design Guidance meeting for low-income senior housing project
The Design Review Board will meet with designers tonight for the Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI) project slated for 2014 NW 57th Street. The vacant lot at 2014 NW 57th […]
Meeting Monday for two projects slated for NW 56th
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Early Design Guidance meeting for vacant land
Tonight is the Early Design Guidance meeting for a plot of empty land at 8022 15th Ave NW. Developers plan to build a four-story building with 48 residential units, three […]
Design Review meeting for old library site
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Help influence Ballard’s new developments
The Northwest Design Review Board, the group responsible for approving future developments, has two volunteer positions available starting next spring. Mayor Mike McGinn is looking for a design professional representative […]
The public speaks up about Urness House
It was standing room only in the Ballard High School Library on Monday evening for back-to-back meetings about the Nyer Urness House. Because of the public interest in the 80-unit […]
Two public meetings scheduled for Urness House
The Department of Planning and Development has scheduled two meetings next month to discuss design and environmental aspects of Urness House, the proposed 80-unit mixed-use building for chronically homeless men […]
Proposed low-income housing draws mixed reviews
Housing the homeless is a good idea, right? But what happens when the housing is next door to you?
On Monday night at Ballard High School, the Seattle Department of Planning and Development convened a design review board that consisted of architects from the Weinstein AIU architectural firm. The purpose of the public meeting was to discuss design options (.pdf) for newly approved low-income housing in downtown Ballard.
The housing is being developed by the Compass Center, a longtime fixture in downtown Seattle. It will be 57,000 square feet, seven stories high and house 80 residents. The building site is on Northwest 56th Street between 17th and 20th Avenues Northwest.
The Compass Center Ballard will be a new housing facility that will provide housing for homeless and low-income men and women who have issues that range from mental health to drug and alcohol dependency, according to its website.
Rumi Takahashi, the project’s lead architect, said although the project is in its early design stages, it will move forward and the Compass Center has already purchased the land. “They have now recently secured funding for the project, so financially we’re a go,” Takahashi said. She added that the money comes from a combination of public sources: the state, the county and the city.
Although the meeting was supposed to be about design options, local residents seemed more concerned with how the residents of the Compass Center were going to interact with the community.
Have a voice in new development
The city is looking to appoint twelve new volunteers to the Design Review Board, one of several citizen-led groups the Mayor and City Council have put in place to review […]
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