homeWelcome, sign in or click here to subscribe.login
     


 

 

Architecture & Engineering


Subscriber content preview

March 3, 2014

Beacon Hill low-income apartments will have a ‘mini-Pike Place Market'

  • Residents of Plaza Roberto Maestas will include the working poor. The complex will be near light rail that can take them to jobs downtown, and is next to 44 social programs run by El Centro de la Raza.
    • By LYNN PORTER
    Journal Staff Reporter

    Image courtesy of SMR Architects [enlarge]
    The plaza could host outdoor movies, food carts, weddings and a farmers market.

    Social services group El Centro de la Raza plans to start construction in early 2015 on a 112-unit low-income apartment complex just south of its headquarters and near the Beacon Hill light-rail station.


     
    . . .


    To read this story in full login or purchase a subscription.



    
    Email or user name:
    Password:
     
    Forgot password? Click here.