October 2, 2003
A Special Section of
DJC.COM


"Seattle calls on ‘Blue Ring’ plan for open space"
By JOHN RAHAIM and DEBRA GUENTHER
Special to the Journal


"Tax increment financing: why it isn’t working here"
By JEFF NAVE
Foster Pepper & Shefelman


"Eastside tries filling an affordable housing gap" By ARTHUR SULLIVAN
A Regional Coalition for Housing


"Tight site parking problem? Stack those cars"
By CARY KOPCZYNSKI
Cary Kopczynski & Co.

"The evolving role of neighborhood retail"
By OSCAR DEL MORO Cosmos Development & Administration Corp.

"Living over the store in funky Fremont"
By MARK SIMPSON
Bumgardner

"WSU forges urban development partnership"
By BILL GRUBICH
KJM & Associates


"The surprising realities of apartment living"
By THOMAS FRYE JR.
Baylis Architects


"Sliver towers squeeze housing into downtown" By WARREN POLLOCK
Warren Pollock & Associates


"Urban sprawl causes waistline sprawl"
By BILL WILKINSON
National Center for Bicycling & Walking


"Seattle’s Green Streets ripe for modernization"
By DREW A. GANGNES
Magnusson Klemencic Associates


"Parking lots designed to suck up storm water" By LEN ZICKLER and DUANE DIETZ
AHBL

What's Inside...

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Fremont’s Epicenter has a grocery store, coffee shop, sushi restaurant, ice creamery, home furnishings boutique, two live/work units and 128 apartments in the complex. Each building is named after a celestial body. The cover photo is Mars, draped with Fremont artist Mark Steven’s 65-foot-tall stainless steel “Monsruang” — Thai for “Jewelry from Heaven.”
Developer: Security Properties
Architect: Bumgardner
Contractor: Rafn
Photo © 2003 Randall J. Corcoran


In this year's Urban Development special publication of the Daily Journal of Commerce, we discuss the difficulties and delights of building in the urban Seattle area.

Difficulties like squeezing more housing downtown and filling an affordable housing gap.

Delights, as in creating more open space in the urban environment.

Parking is always an issue - such as how to house more cars when space is at a minimum, or how to control stormwater runoff.

We even tackle the issue of the sprawling waistline.

Featured Stories...


Avila at Bauhinia

Is Seattle ready to wear the Vancouver style?
South Lake Union could be the next home of skinny towers

By GORDON PRICE
Special to the Journal

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kitchen

Reinventing the residential high-rise
Growth, regulation and traffic are causing a shift toward high-rise living

By BLAINE WEBER
Weber + Thompson

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