June 9, 2015

Spruce West Seattle opens with 216 units

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Spruce West has a theater room, game room, rooftop dog-run and courtyard with a fireplace and fire pit.

Madison Development Group of Kirkland has opened Spruce West Seattle, with 216 apartments in West Seattle and an L.A. Fitness.

Spruce has two seven-story buildings at 4555 39th Ave. S.W.

L.A. Fitness occupies 42,210 square feet.

Madison Development bought the site in 2011 for $32.4 million. A previous owner had started to build a Whole Foods, other retail and 184 housing units. The site was excavated but then work stopped. Whole Foods pulled out in 2010 and now is building a store in a different West Seattle project: The Whitaker, about a block south of Madison Development's project. Lennar Multifamily Communities is developing The Whitaker.

Rents at Spruce range from $1,225 to $1,450 for a studio; $1,325 to $2,040 for an open one-bedroom, one-bath; $1,800 to $2,175 for a one-bedroom, one-bath with a den; and $2,160 to $3,400 for a two-bedroom, two-bath. The complex is 33 percent leased, representatives of Madison Development said.

Madison Development is holding 20 percent of the units for affordable housing under the city's Multifamily Property Tax Exemption program.

CollinsWoerman is the architect and Chinn Construction is the general contractor. Other team members include interior designer Two 9 Design and landscape architect Weisman Design Group.

It has a theater room with a big screen television; game room with shuffleboard and pool table; community room with a kitchen and fireplace; rooftop dog-run and dog-washing station; and courtyard with a fireplace and fire pit.

Madison Development commissioned a sculpture by West Seattle artist Lezlie Jane for a new pocket park at Fauntleroy Way Southwest and Southwest Alaska Street.

Madison Development also is building 221 apartments with 16,500 square feet of retail at Pine Street and Melrose Avenue on Capitol Hill. That project will open next spring. The facades of two old buildings on the site are being saved.

Madison Development said it has completed more than 50 projects with 6 million square feet.