Posted May 17, 2012, 5:33 PM
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...tml?cmpid=2628
Edgy Stadium Place tower scores with Pioneer Square board
The city board charged with safeguarding the character of historic Pioneer Square on Wednesday unanimously approved
the decidedly untraditional design of a proposed 25-story apartment tower just north of CenturyLink Field.
By Eric Pryne
May 16,2012
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The glass-and-steel tower would be divided into stacked, two-to-four-story "boxes" positioned at different angles, with some overhanging or pulling back from others. The building is part of a bigger development called Stadium Place, in what used to be CenturyLink Field's north parking lot.
...most members of the Pioneer Square Preservation Board had nothing but praise for the project Wednesday. "This is a fabulous segue between the old and the new in Pioneer Square," Mark Astor said. Sara-Jane Bellanca, who lives in a condo across Occidental Avenue South from the Stadium Place site, was the only member of the public to speak — and she, too, was complimentary. "I think it's absolutely spectacular," she said.
The tower, designed by ZGF Architects, would be a prominent part of the view north from CenturyLink Field toward the downtown skyline, a panorama featured regularly during TV broadcasts of Seahawks games. At 240 feet, the 333-apartment South Tower would be a little shorter than the stadium, about 500 feet away.
Already under construction are a more-traditional, 10-story West Tower of loft-style apartments, and a full-block base, or podium, for both towers with more apartments, space for shops and restaurants, and a parking garage.
A 20-story condo tower is planned later, as are an office tower and hotel on the other side of Second Avenue South. Alan Cornell of Daniels Real Estate said the podium and West Tower should be completed in summer 2013, the South Tower a year later. All the South Tower needs now is building permits, he said.
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