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Capitol Hill alone is almost unrecognizable from what it was just a couple years ago. Every parking lot, old single story building, car dealership, heck even busy viable businesses are being razed for apartment buildings. It's amazing.
Yeah, I too can't substantiate anything via link, but I live in Capitol Hill in Seattle and they're currently building 2,500+ apartments, including thousands more in review once our subway station is completed in 2016 (that's within a four block radius alone).
In Downtown, one high rise project currently half completed will alone create 707 luxury condominiums. That's among the several towers under construction and planned.
And then you have the University District which will have its subway station open up in 2021. Seattle plans to raise the building heights of this neighborhood to allow structures up to 340 feet for office and residential structures. This district is several miles away from downtown.
And then you have subway stations opening in 2021 in Roosevelt District, Northgate, and projected stations for Ballard, Fremont, Wallingford, West Seattle, all with design plans for high density growth.
And then you have light rail lines under construction on surface streets that will facilitate travel within the urban core, connecting South Lake Union and West Lake to Downtown, Pioneer Square, the International District, First Hill, and Cap Hill.
All these factors make certain that Seattle is currently on its way for massive density and population growth. How long that'll last, I don't know, but it doesn't seem to plan to slow down anytime soon.
Last edited by GatsbyGatz; 06-16-2014 at 03:53 PM..
Did u include Proposed/Planned projects in ur 15k figure? Or just Under Construction and Approved? U mentioned 2016 plans, which is why I'm asking.
The figure I put out does not. One of the articles I linked to points to almost 10,000 under construction in a somewhat liberal definition of the core in Seattle. Add that together with other areas like West Seattle and Ballard which both have over 1000 under construction as well as neighborhoods like Fremont, Greenlake, Wallingford, Upper Queen Anne, and the Rainier Valley and 15,000 under construction is definitely not a stretch.
2016 is the year the underground light rail station on Capitol Hill opens. Gatsby just brought it up as an example of one of the (many) growth catalysts in the area.
And then you have the University District which will have its subway station open up in 2021. Seattle plans to raise the building heights of this neighborhood to allow structures up to 340 feet for office and residential structures. This district is several miles away from downtown.
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The University District Link Station actually is supposed to be open in 2016!
The University District Link Station actually is supposed to be open in 2016!
That's the Husky Stadium Station. There will be another station on Brooklyn Ave in the actual U District neighborhood.
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