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September 30, 2016

48 apartments planned just 5 feet from viaduct

By JOURNAL STAFF

King County records show property at 55 Bell St. in Belltown sold for $6.7 million to MountainBlue, LLC, which is associated with Bellevue investors Julia and Chun Fan.

The seller was Alex Landes, who acquired the property through an LLC in 2000 for $3 million.

Preliminary plans have been filed with the city for a mixed-use building with about 48 apartments, 31 parking spaces and 2,250 square feet of retail space. The structure would be at least 70,000 square feet but the height is not specified.

The project owner is listed as Sun Dee Group LLC, with Julia Fan as the manager. Citizen Design is listed as the local architect.

The 11,300-square-foot site now contains a small building that dates to 1957, and surface parking.

It is located at the corner of Bell and Elliott Avenue, just a few feet south of the Alaskan Way Viaduct, before it enters the Battery Street Tunnel.

No building permit has been issued for the project. Calls to the Fans were not returned.

Architect Jacob Young of Citizen Design said the structure could be 10 stories and would proceed regardless of whether the viaduct has been removed or not.

“It's gonna be pretty close,” Young said. “It'll be within five feet of it.”




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