The sluggish real estate market is having a definite impact on the pace of development in the neighborhood. It's been three weeks since we've had any notices to talk about, and this week there's only two:
1. There's a wide and deep vacant lot at 2415 S. Norman where a developer has applied to build 7 cottages arranged 2x2 towards the back and heading downhill on the property. Parking will be provided in a 7-space surface parking lot right next to the sidewalk (grrrr). It looks like they'll be 2 stories tall, ranging in height from 18 to 23 feet. Since they're on a downhill slope towards the I-90 park, those second stories should have some reasonable territorial views.
2. Sitting right over the I-90 tunnels at 1418 30th Ave S there's a set of two low-slung duplexes that are slated to be town down in favor of three single-family residences and two 2-unit townhouses. That makes for 7 total units, which of course come with parking for seven vehicles, six of which will be in the structures and one on the surface. The buildings are arranged with the two duplexes in front along 30th Ave, and 3 single family residences on the back side of the property. It looks like parking access for those three houses will be provided through a driveway behind them, which I assume will require a big retaining wall to hold back the steep hillside.
These should be prime view properties with a good view of downtown and the Olympics, sitting where they do over the tunnel.
