September 12, 2014

A look at Vulcan's Westlake complex

Image courtesy ZGF Architects [enlarge]

Vulcan is planning a 41-story tower with 470 housing units and an 18-story office tower.

Vulcan Real Estate is showing some images of the full-block office, residential and retail complex it wants to build on the corner of Westlake Avenue North and Denny Way.

Vulcan recently applied for a master use permit for a 41-story tower with 470 housing units and an 18-story tower with 398,900 square feet of office space.

Retail will total 40,400 square feet and be in three places: the office building's ground floor, a one- or two-story building on the southwest corner and a three-story building on the northeast corner.

About 850 parking spaces are planned.

ZGF Architects is working with Ankrom Moisan Architects to design the project. Lease Crutcher Lewis is doing preconstruction work. Other team members include Hewitt Architects for landscape architecture and Coughlin Porter Lundeen as civil and structural engineer.

Vulcan's Real Estate Investment Strategy Director Lori Mason Curran said construction won't begin any time soon.

The block today is home to a playfield, basketball court and South Lake Union Discovery Center, which will be taken apart and moved to another site when Vulcan develops the block.

Vulcan is teeing up several projects for its next wave of South Lake Union development. Most are in the early planning stages so construction is a long way off.

Here are the major projects:

• A 23-story tower with 300 housing units at 401 Eighth Ave.

• A 12-story building with 322,000 square feet of office space and 17,000 square feet of retail at 520 Westlake Ave. N.

• Two six-story office buildings at 300 and 333 Eighth Ave. N. with 388,400 square feet

• Three 16-story residential towers on three blocks between Mercer and Valley streets, and Westlake and Fairview avenues north, with a total of 854 units. A seven-story project with 156,000 square feet of office space also is planned on one of the blocks — between Westlake and Terry — and there is space for more development on the other two blocks.