West Seattle development: Design Review date for 35th/Graham mixed-use building

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A Southwest Design Review Board hearing is now set for the mixed-use building planned on part of High Point’s most prominent undeveloped site, at 35th/Graham.

We last mentioned it here eight months ago, when it surfaced in the city’s online files. The outline on the project page hasn’t changed much since then; it now describes “a 4-story structure containing 89 residential units, 8,500 sq. ft. of office space and 1,500 sq. ft. of retail space located at ground level. Surface parking for 98 vehicles to be provided.” The “site plan” dated last month shows an L-shaped building stretching across all of the currently vacant 35th SW frontage, from the corner of Graham northward. The parking entry would be on the east side of the building. The rest of the sprawling site is still set for residential development – most if not all townhouses – but only the mixed-use building is involved in the Early Design Guidance meeting that’s planned for the SWDRB’s next meeting, June 25th at 8 pm at the Senior Center of West Seattle. (As reported here on May 5th, the 6:30 pm project review that night is for the CVS drugstore project at 4722 Fauntleroy Way SW.)

ChefJoe May 21, 2015 (3:51 pm)

Whew, for a little bit there I was worried about my beloved Car Wash Palace. It’s on the opposite corner.

cynaur May 21, 2015 (4:35 pm)

West Seattle! WHo knew it would emulate Ballard in being the newest overbuilt, overpriced rental market with zero lot lines, zero parking, zero taste, and ZERO being the number of times a developer’s plans have been REJECTED by the design or failure to plan board? How about a story on just how many rental, condo and town homes have been built in the last five years and how many are currently in the works? How much money to the various entities which give carte blanche approval to the developers involved in this building frenzy? Community character and traffic planning be damned; cubic tenement housing at inflated pricing is all the rage in West Seattle.

trickycoolj May 21, 2015 (4:56 pm)

Cynaur- I suppose you preferred the previous state of High Point?

I’m excited we’ll get some kind of commercial business, too bad it’s not that promised grocery store.

West Seattle Hipster May 21, 2015 (5:30 pm)

I too lament that there will not be a grocery store at that site, especially a store that sold foods that are healthy.

dsa May 21, 2015 (5:37 pm)

Meeting should be near where the project is, not in the junction.

Oakley34 May 21, 2015 (10:23 pm)

curious to see what type of tenant will take that retail space. Hopefully not something stupid like another cel phone store…I agree something peddling healthy food would be a boon to the high point area. whatever moves in will block my fleeting view of the cascades…hopefully cynaur is wrong about their having zero taste.

Kim May 22, 2015 (8:01 am)

It will be great to see a shiny new development replace part of that overgrown vacant lot. Hoping they can get some retail that’s worth walking to!

East Coast Cynic May 22, 2015 (9:39 am)

In spite of the parking spaces that will be provided, where will the extra cars park? With 89 more residences (maybe 150 to 200 more people), will those cars go east of 35th? West of 35th? Will they move southbound or northbound down 35th? Also, will we get more bus service with the extra people?