100 Taylor Ave N Architect: Cross 2 Developer: BRE Properties Do you see a difference? Neither do we. The new lay of the land… Love, CSC
737 Olive Way, Seattle, WA Developer: RC Hedreen Architect: Mulvanny G2 Cheapshitcondos had a tour of the soon to be auctioned Olive 8 condominiums. We were lured by the offer of “an enviable lifestyle on your own terms.” Enticingly, our own terms were to be auctioned with a starting bid of $160,000. Now that’s a [...]
1920 Fourth Avenue Developer: Lexas Companies Architect: Thoryk Architecture Something-is-changing-at Escala-dot-com…could it be the ownership? So when the bank owns your condo tower, do you get free checking? Just sayin’. Do they have a basket of lollipops at the door and somebody waiting to ask us about our weekend? I’m sure the views looking out [...]
1315 1st Avenue The menage à trois with the pressing condos is coming to an end. Is it too much to ask that this building not be torn down? We realize this is some seriously valuable air above waiting to be lego-ed in with a skinny condo or pop out neighbor expansion. Still, we vote [...]
Second and Pine St. Another resplendent condo project gone belly up. From a parking lot to a mega-hole, and back to a parking lot (soon). Will there be another hole? Wouldn’t it be great if instead of reverting to a parking lot, we had a below grade zen garden or fabulous sculptures a la Olympic [...]
