Seattle downtown’s construction frenzy shows no sign of slowing down, with 68 projects counted this spring.
Here are a few pictures from my walkabout in downtown on Sunday afternoon.
These new glass and steel buildings are in the Denny triangle. I’m looking toward Stewart Street. The tall wedge-shaped building is the Kinects Tower, slated for completion in July; 40 stories with 357 apartments. The shorter building with its tower at the back is the Tilt49 building. Those are offices in the front, with a 36-story, 368 apartment building at the back.Close by, construction is starting on an extension of Seattle Children’s Hospital research facility, scheduled for opening in 2019.Here’s another completed apartment tower, this one 39 stories tall, the Cirrus Tower. One bedroom apartment rentals start at $2,500 per month. Right in front of me is the construction site of Amazon III, which will be 38 stories tall when completed at the end of 2018.(This is not a new building, but I like it). The two-story Washington Talking Book and Braille Library (WTBBL, pronounce Wuh-tah’-bull) is housed in a 1948 building in the Streamline Moderne style (a late type of the Art Deco architecture). The building started out as an auto dealership that sold Dodge and Plymouth vehicles. WTBBL moved into the building in 1983.
Seattle downtown’s construction frenzy shows no sign of slowing down, with 68 projects counted this spring.
