SEATTLE | 701 Fourth Avenue | 1,020 FT | 91 FLOORS - Page 5

gramsjdg · #1 Posted **Oct 19, 2021, 4:10 AM**

Not bad, but doesn't hold a candle to Gensler's 888 second avenue. It's criminal that it never got built, or that they haven't used the design elsewhere.

njcco · #2 Posted **Oct 19, 2021, 11:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by gramsjdg

Not bad, but doesn't hold a candle to Gensler's 888 second avenue. It's criminal that it never got built, or that they haven't used the design elsewhere.

I Googled the Gensler project and have to agree with you. What a stunning building that would be! Wow.

Hopefully it will see the light of day again, somewhere.

Zapatan · #3 Posted **Mar 15, 2022, 11:43 PM**

From a while ago (December) but this is the latest news

Miami company buys old Seattle garage next to where it's planning 100-story tower

https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/...le-garage.html

TallBob · #4 Posted **Oct 19, 2021, 6:38 AM**

Isn't the elevaion of the 701 4th proposal about 60+' lower than the Columbia Tower?

InlandEmpire · #5 Posted **Oct 19, 2021, 10:27 PM**

I just jumped on Google street view and the base of the Columbia Tower and this proposal are pretty close to even elevation-wise. I think they could still theoretically get 100 floors in - they might not have the ceiling height that some other buildings have.

I still think its cool that Columbia Tower has the most floors of any building on the West Coast despite no crowns/spires to bump its height.

mhays · #6 Posted **Mar 21, 2022, 5:30 PM**

The garage would be a huge asset during construction of 4/C (701 4th), then could be a second tower site. It's an optimistic point for their plans.

Zapatan · #7 Posted **Mar 21, 2022, 10:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by mhays

The garage would be a huge asset during construction of 4/C (701 4th), then could be a second tower site. It's an optimistic point for their plans.

Right, so exciting that Seattle, Austin and Miami have their first supertall in the works, if they all get built that'll be just epic.

Urbannizer · #8 Posted **Oct 26, 2022, 4:26 AM**

Plans finally resubmitted to the city and feature a new design.

91 floors / 1,020 Ft’
1,090 residential units

colemonkee · #9 Posted **Oct 26, 2022, 5:56 AM**

Design looks a bit watered down from the previous version. Still aesthetically pleasing, but much more staid, especially for the tallest on the skyline.

Steely Dan · #10 Posted **Oct 26, 2022, 1:49 PM**

^ yes, the new design is a bit more conventional than the iteration released last fall, but it still looks pretty damn good to my eye.

And let's not forget, "conventional" isn't automatically a negative, it often ages better over the decades.

Now CH just needs to get started on it already! Austin and Miami have shovels in the ground on their first supertalls; you're up next Seattle!

Zapatan · #11 Posted **Oct 26, 2022, 5:45 PM**

It's simple but a good kind of simple. The open space is cool too, looks like trees are in there.

Super exciting though, if this gets built the US will have 10 supertall cities.

Urbannizer · #12 Posted **Oct 27, 2022, 5:31 AM**

DCReid · #13 Posted **Jan 20, 2023, 2:30 AM**

I don't full access, but this appears to be an update:

https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/...ed-states.html

The tower would have been one of the 10 tallest in the U.S., but no more...

Busy Bee · #14 Posted **Jan 20, 2023, 2:33 AM**

Bummer.

Zapatan · #15 Posted **Jan 20, 2023, 2:55 AM**

Nothing bad happened, the current height is still 1,020 something, it used to be nearly 1,200.

We've known this for months (years?).

Very outdated news and a false alarm this article...

Busy Bee · #16 Posted **Jan 20, 2023, 3:12 AM**

un-Bummer.

mhays · #17 Posted **Jan 20, 2023, 3:45 AM**

The cut was due to the FAA. But going all-residential with mostly rentals makes this a much more viable project. It's in the middle of the Financial District, and I'm imagining the main resident base is 26-year-old overworked lawyers as well as crash pads for overworked 50-year-old lawyers and managers.

They even have some above-grade parking, hidden behind living units on six of the podium levels. That's a cost-saver. I suspect the parking ratio of 873 spaces per 1,090 units is just the maximum they might want, and it would make sense to cut some of it. The land use permit process makes it easy to cut parking, particularly if it's below-grade as most of it would be. Seattle typically has a parking space for each condo and a ratio like 0.5 or 0.6 for a typical highrise rental, but this one will be a closer walk to work for a lot of people.

Have fun with the land use permit drawings if you like. http://web6.seattle.gov/dpd/edms/Get...spx?id=8613111

JMKeynes · #18 Posted **Jan 20, 2023, 3:53 AM**

It still looks good. Is this an office tower or a condo. If the former, I suspect that with the massive job cuts in the tech industry (and the work from home proclivity in that field), this won't be built any time soon anyway (if ever). If the latter, there should still be demand.

KevinFromTexas · #19 Posted **Jan 20, 2023, 4:34 AM**

Except for the podium, I really like those setbacks. The slenderness of this reminds me a bit of Carnegie Hall Tower in New York and Three Logan Square in Philly.

Zapatan · #20 Posted **Feb 24, 2023, 11:11 PM**

Apparently there's a poster up of the project now at the walled off site and some permits were issued recently. Nothing major yet but still some activity on America's next potential supertall.

Source: SSC thread

https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threa...847394/page-65