August 25, 2014

Sunset Electric

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Sunset Electric is a 92-unit apartment building at 1111 E. Pine St. in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.

The seven-story building has a 5,800-square-foot retail space on 11th Avenue that will house a restaurant called Stout.

The two-story brick facade of the original 1926 auto-row building was preserved, which required extensive bracing during construction and highly detailed preservation work.

Original framing timbers were reused in shelving, bedroom doors and stair treads.

An open-air interior courtyard lets natural light into all of the units and allows for passive cooling. A reverse-cycle chiller transfers latent heat from the air in the garage to the domestic hot-water supply.

The building is expected to use 43 percent less energy than an average U.S. apartment building, and is expected to receive LEED platinum.

Owner: Wolff Co.

Architect: Weber Thompson

Construction manager: Patrinely Group

General contractor: Compass General Construction

Property manager: Riverstone Residential Group

Retail broker: JSH Properties

Other team members: DCI Engineers; Ecotope; Bush, Roed & Hitchings; BEE Consulting; Transportation Solutions; SSA Acoustics; and O’Brien & Co.

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Previous columns:

• Fire Station 36, 08-18-2014
• Trulia Center (110 Atrium), 08-11-2014
• Collaborative Life Sciences Building and Skourtes Tower, 08-04-2014
• Stream Belmont, 07-28-2014
• Home Plate Center, 07-21-2014
• 306QA Apartments, 07-14-2014
• Rivet, 07-07-2014
• Island Transit headquarters, 06-30-2014