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August 10, 2021

LMN files new upper school plan for SAAS

By BRIAN MILLER
Real Estate Editor

Rendering by LMN [enlarge]
In this six-year-old massing study, looking southwest, the old warehouse building (with gray roof) now to be replaced is west of the green sports field on the roof of the new gym. The new middle school is indicated in the right foreground; its final design is much different.

Two years ago, Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences paid nearly $5 million for an old warehouse property it had been leasing, at 1120 12th Ave. That's directly south of the school's very recognizable Vanderbilt Building, at the three-way junction with East Madison and East Union streets.

Architect LMN, which in recent years designed the academy's neighboring middle school building, has now filed plans to raze the old industrial building, plus the Mother's Place daycare building (which the school already owned) to create a 32,593-square-foot midblock assemblage.

The new upper school plan is for a five story building that will connect via an “outdoor community space” to the Vanderbilt Building and the three-year-old middle school, which is to the east on 13th Avenue.

The plan hasn't yet entered design review; it's listed with a nominal value of $65 million. Size above grade is estimated at 100,000 square feet. One level of underground parking, to be accessed from the southwest corner of the building, would have 55 stalls. Sixty bike stalls are also planned.

LMN says the new building will include classrooms, administrative space, community area, cafeteria, and student commons, metal and woodworking shops and a digital fabrication lab.


 

Brian Miller can be reached by email at brian.miller@djc.com or by phone at (206) 219-6517.




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