I don't think that's possible. First, it would be directly atop existing ballrooms, which can't have columns and they wouldn't want to close anyway. Second, there's not enough room. Third, they rely on limited resources -- most importantly parking that they can't expand.
Vulcan today announced that Rollin St. and Veer have started. Rollin St. counts as a high-rise. Together that's another 300 units for SLU.
In other Vulcan news, their 53-unit low-income housing project at Denny & Dexter got its first building permit Friday or thereabouts. They already demo'd recently. Could this be starting right away?
At this pace, SLU could be a vibrant urban district fairly quickly!
Right now projects include Weber+Thompson, Mirabella, Alexan Cascade, 2201, Block 40, and UW plus these three, once we can count all of them. That's about 1,050 housing or nursing units, 1,000,000 square feet of offices and labs, and a fair amount of neighborhood-focused retail. That doesn't count the recent completions of 2200, Alley24, etc. PS, I guess I'm counting 2201 as part of SLU despite its being south of Denny. Oh well.
It's confusing in that area. I just started using Denny as the brake-off point. Anythin south I call it Denny and anything north, I call it Cascade, North Aurora or SLU.
Also, we're too generous in labeling things highrises. To me, this is midrise.
^I just call the whole thing "Denny." But then again, I'm sort of a simpleton.
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That rendering is making me misty-eyed! It was so much better then.
"High-rise" is a subjective term, unless you want to get technical and base it on the high-rise code, which is even lower. Personally I use 10 stories. However I wouldn't call a 10-story building a tower.
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Bassetti Architects unveiled this image quite some time ago. It was first noted as a 33 story tower at 811 Fifth Ave. But does anyone have newer renderings? I have not found any. Is the project still on?
That appears to be the 1st UMC block next to Columbia.
Last I heard was that someone was in discussion with the city
to swap air rights to construct taller elsewhere and save the ornate building
while demolishing and building a highrise where the annex is.
Currently it sounds like a developer would build a new church at 3rd Ave in Belltown, where the stilt bank and vacant lot are, and build an office high-rise at the annex portion of the existing church while keeping the round part.
Oddly I haven't been by in a week or two, at least on that side of the street. The tower crane went up a few weeks ago and I'm sure they're well along on foundations.
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