SEATTLE | 1901 Minor Avenue | 2 x 440 FT | 2 x 39 FLOORS

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This is Crescent Heights' smaller option: 39-story twin towers

A Miami developer called Crescent Heights Inspirational Living has filed preliminary plans with the city of Seattle for a pair of 39-story apartment towers at 1901 Minor Ave. in the Denny Triangle.

The site is on the west side of Minor Avenue, between Virginia and Stewart streets.

Gensler is the architect.

The plans just filed show the smaller of two proposals the developer is considering. Crescent Heights is trying to acquire a 14,400-square-foot city-owned parcel at the north end of the block that is could use to build a larger complex.

The smaller proposal calls for two 39-story towers containing about 600 apartments. The towers would share a podium, including three levels of below-grade parking for 458 vehicles.

Retail would total 8,700 square feet.

The image here is a massing study that shows the approximate size and volume of the project, but not the final design.

A city design-review board will have its first look at the plans during a meeting tentatively scheduled for 5:30 pm. June 2 in Seattle City Hall, Room L280.

The larger proposal would be two 40-story towers with 880 units, retail and five levels of underground parking. While the smaller project would not have residential units in the podium, the larger project would.

Minutes from a meeting last week with the architect, developer and city planners note the design team was encouraged by planners to work with structural engineer Magnusson Klemencic Associates to add some pizazz to the design.

“Dramatic design is encouraged in Denny Triangle,” the minutes say. “Most projects proposed there tend to be very basic and boxlike, with little relief.”

A design guidance meeting for the larger proposal is likely to be scheduled for a later date.

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New high-rises in Seattle will be a series of 'neighborhoods'

National real estate development company Crescent Heights' proposed high-rise project will be built as apartments.

This new information is according to materials that the privately held Miami-based company recently filed with the city. Last year, shortly after the company paid $18.5 million for the property at 1901 Minor Ave., Crescent West Coast Acquisition Manager Elliott Kahn said he wasn't sure what the company would build on the property now occupied by a small office building and surface parking lot.

The plan now to build is a pair of two 39-story towers with an eight-story podium. When complete, there will be about 600 apartments, nearly 440 underground parking stalls and street-level retail.

To break up the scale of such a large project, architects at Gensler are proposing "easily legible amenity spaces" throughout the towers. That's what's stated in a design review packet that Crescent submitted to the city. The scheme will help break up the towers into "neighborhoods," according to the packet.

Crescent has developed large condo, apartment, office and hotel projects in cities across the country, but this is its first in Seattle, Kahn said last year. He added the company had been looking at deals for about five years, and the property on Minor "was the first one that kind of fit right." Kahn was not immediately available Tuesday.

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Credit: http://www.djc.com/news/re/12077415.html

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Design review meeting for this project is happening next week, June 14th http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/aboutus/n...t.aspx?id=5936

No design proposal listed on the City's website, but you can see updated/refined renderings by Gensler on BuzzBuzzHome: https://www.buzzbuzzhome.com/1901-minor

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Lots of new renderings are now available. More project details: https://www.buzzbuzzhome.com/us/1901-minor

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Design of 44-story tower reflects a recent deal by its future neighbor

Two big high-rise projects are planned for the Denny Triangle block bounded by Virginia and Stewart streets and Boren and Minor avenues.

They have separate developers but the same architect, Gensler, making it easier to coordinate their projects.

On the east side of the block, at 1901 Minor, Miami-based developer Crescent Heights successfully went through design review in 2015 and 2016. Its apartment plan has two 40-story towers with an eight-story podium. About 941 units are planned, plus retail and underground parking.

The project has been delayed, because the site hadn't been fully assembled. But after lengthy deliberation, the city of Seattle agreed late last month to sell a surplus former fire station on the northeast corner of the block, usually called “the Comm Shop,” to Crescent Heights for $13 million.