This little ditty (read huge 400' twin tower covering a full block) is planned for Denny and Stewart. SLOG has been following this all along through the three early design reviews that the developer says have cost him a million dollars.
The building of three or so floors of commercial, a hotel, and luxury condos is ambitious, but is not without its problems.
For one, the project will have underground parking for 800 vehicles, and for two, there will be no retail to speak of on Denny.
This doesn't seem to jive entirely with comments made earlier by architect Paul Thoryk about the developer at Lexas Companies, saying, “He is very sensitive to the environment, esthetics, and wants a very well-done building and to please the community. We want to make it a neighborhood-friendly environment.”
The city design review board passed it through unanimously.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
1200 Stewart
3 comments:
So? Is 800 parking spots too much or too little? Two 400' towers probably hold a lot of people, and you can't sell condos without parking spots. Sounds appropriate to me.
It's quite a lot considering there are less than 300 residential units. That works out to more than 2 stalls per unit, where the average is 1.5.
The reason it's so high according to the developer is the commercial and hotel aspects, but in a world where we are trying to lessen the dependency on oil and curb greenhouse gas emissions - this is simply too much. Especially considering the proximity to downtown/public transportation and the amount of traffic Denny sees - layer on the parking garage backup to the I-5 onramp backup and if you have quite a mess.
I agree with you Rick! The bus stop on Stewart in front of Emerald Smoothies sees buses every couple minutes throughout the day. Odds are most who live and work there should be 'encouraged' to use public transportation to come back and forth by demanding less parking in the building.
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