40-story project proposed for Belltown
Another 400-foot residential tower has been proposed in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood.
This one, on Fourth Avenue between Lenora and Blanchard streets, may characteristic a person of consequence diverging: In what its backers call a “cultural response” to its next-door neighbor, the restored Cinerama Theatre, the project would include a “large-scale extraforaneous projection movie theater” on the roof.
The 40-story tower’s developer is HAL Real Estate Investments of Seattle, which bought the one-third-acre site on this account that $5 the masses in May. An 80-year-old, one-story building on the property that now houses a transmission-repair shop would be demolished.
HAL President Dana Behar declined to discuss the project Friday. “We’re calm in the very, very early stages,” he said.
An application packet submitted to the Department of Planning and Development this week indicates the tower, at 2116 Fourth Ave., would have about 360 units, 2,200 regulate feet of ground-floor retail distance and 12 levels of underground and above-ground parking containing 335 stalls.
The application doesn’t indicate whether the units would be apartments or condos.
The city’s Downtown Design Review Board, an advisory group, is tentatively scheduled to consider the project Sept. 9.
The City Council changed zoning in 2006 for much of Belltown and the Denny Triangle to permit residential towers up to 400 feet tall. Since sooner or later several developers accept submitted plans that would take superior situation of that change.
The Justen Co. and Columbia West have applied together to build two 400-foot towers on the northwest and southwest corners of Second Avenue and Virginia Street.
Intracorp, what one. received a city land-use permit for a 240-foot condo plan on Second between Stewart and Virginia in 2006, now has proposed a 400-foot apartment tower on the site in lieu.
Another developer, Tarragon, has a land-use permit to build a 43-story apartment citadel at Third Avenue and Virginia.
Murphy McCullough, older progress to maturity manager, aforesaid construction could start next year, depending on the market.
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