September 13, 2022

City OKs taller Greenwood apartments, now with 87 units

Rendering by Clark Barnes [enlarge]

On a sloping site, the taller building (outlined in red) will rise to six and seven stories. This view looks northwest at the project.

Apartment plans go back a half dozen years at 8403 Greenwood Ave. N., when Slattery Properties and Clark Barnes launched a midrise apartment plan. That was subsequently approved under the old pre-Mandatory Housing Affordability zoning. Last week, the city approved an additional story, bringing the plan up to seven stories and 87 units.

A modified master use permit is now within reach; a construction permit came two years ago, though with no builder attached. No start date has been announced, and it's possible the project will be sold with a modified MUP in place.

The team includes Weisman Design Group, landscape architect; KPFF, civil engineer; Earth Solutions NW, geotechnical engineer; PSM Consulting Engineers, structural; Terrane, surveyor; Emerald City Engineers, MEP; Ground Support, shoring; and Cross 2 Design Group, envelope.

Using the revised project numbers, the Mandatory Housing Affordability fee is estimated at $208,818. That's for a total project size of 106,982 square feet, including a roof deck, terraces, 37 underground parking stalls and 5,616 square feet of retail/commercial space. Tenants will also have 38 bike stalls.

Units run from studios to a few two-bedrooms.

One small vacant building on the corner of North 84 Street remains to be demolished — along with a masonry remnant butted up against the FlintCreek Cattle Co. restaurant building on North 85th Street. The middle portion of that block was razed after catastrophic damage from the March 2016 gas leak and explosion rocked that stretch of Greenwood. (No one was killed or seriously injured.)

Thus the project was born out of necessity, investor Mike Slattery told the DJC in 2017. With several of his commercial buildings rendered uninhabitable (but not the FlintCreek building), he was suddenly tasked with becoming a developer. “We have got no multifamily experience in our portfolio,” he said. “This is plowing new ground.”