Watch The U.S. Open From House Overlooking Chambers Bay
If you lived across the street from Chambers Bay, the site of the U.S. Open, you'd have to become a better golfer, even if it was just from hearing the thwhack of the balls and watching the other golfers to critique them. Being that close is like someone building an open-air gym that you couldn't ignore. You're bound to get in shape. The privilege of such a location goes to whoever buys this 4 bedroom, 1.1 bath, 2,081 square foot rambler. It's only about a block of a walk, but not far by golf course standards. The asking price is $295,000 for a house that looks forward to an upgrade. The windows and paint are up-to-date, but the cabinetry reinforces the build date of 1978. But, who cares? Buy it as an incentive and a reminder to make your game better. Some golf devotees buy mansions on fairways. Buy a suburban rambler instead, and have money left over for new clubs and cleats. When you get home, enjoy the fact that one of the nice additions is your own version of the 19th tee, a wet bar just off the kitchen.
Juno Therapeutics HQ Breaks Ground, Spring District Gets Tenant
[Juno Therapeutics groundbreaking, photo by Dan Morris]
SOUTH LAKE UNION -- Alexandria Real Estate Equities recently hosted a groundbreaking at the Alexandria Center at 400 Dexter Avenue North for Juno Therapeutics's new Headquarters and R&D Center. Alexandria is developing an approximately 287,000 square foot state-of-the-art laboratory/office building, which Juno will anchor. Juno is leasing 90,000 square feet with expansion options.
DOWNTOWN-- A joint venture of Hunt Construction Group and Skanska have been chosen to build the $1.4 billion expansion of the Washington State Convention Center according to PSBJ. Officials hope to break ground in 2017 with a completion set for around 2020. The expansion is expected to add 250,000 square feet of exhibit space, 120,000 square feet of meeting room space and a ballroom. [PSBJ]
BELLEVUE -- The Global Innovation Exchange (GIX), a joint venture between the University of Washington and China's Tsinghua University, will be the first tenant in Wright Runstad & Co.'s Spring District. The international technology institute will start with about 30 students but could eventually enroll as many as 3,000 by 2025. NBBJ is designing the building. [DJC]
Buy This Broadview Home Where Everybody Knows Your Name
Before Frasier became the go-to Seattle sitcom reference, Frasier Crane spent his days hanging out at a bar in Boston. While this Broadview home hasn't quite recreated the specific look of Cheers, they've certainly turned their basement into a bar where everybody knows your name...mostly because anyone using it is either in your family or invited by them. It's just common sense. If you can drag yourself away from there, the 3,110 square-foot 4-BR also features a lot of great midcentury details, such as a freestanding fireplace, vaulted exposed beam ceilings, big windows and a patio for when you want to enjoy your drink outdoors. Not sure why you'd want to, though...
12th Avenue Arts Up For Award; Burien All Growns Up
· Majority of the City Council Supports Asking the State to Lift the Ban on Rent Control [SLOG]
· Exclusive peek inside Dropbox's new Seattle office [GW]
· Postal Service announces search for new Broadway Station [CHS]
· Seattle warm stretch to last into September ... 2016?!? [KOMO]
· Murray boasts about Metro Transit upgrades [CC]
· 12th Avenue Arts up for national award [DJC]
· If cities had coming-of-age parties, this would be Burien's [PSBJ]
· Average worker would need nine years to afford a home in Seattle [CL]
· Map(s) of The Day: Historic Seattle Zoning [Urb]
· Exclusive peek inside Dropbox's new Seattle office [GW]
· Postal Service announces search for new Broadway Station [CHS]
· Seattle warm stretch to last into September ... 2016?!? [KOMO]
· Murray boasts about Metro Transit upgrades [CC]
· 12th Avenue Arts up for national award [DJC]
· If cities had coming-of-age parties, this would be Burien's [PSBJ]
· Average worker would need nine years to afford a home in Seattle [CL]
· Map(s) of The Day: Historic Seattle Zoning [Urb]
A Brilliant Idea for Reusing Old iPhones as Lamps and Speakers
All images via Designboom
When people rush to snatch up the latest smartphone offerings, the older but still functional units are usually sold, given away, or, in the saddest scenario, banished to some dark corner. Ukrainian industrial designer Ivan Zhurba has another idea. His new project, the iPhone Lamp, sources its light from the flashlight feature of an iPhone, which would be slotted into the thin "arm" of the minimalist apparatus. The design also allows for a charging cable while the iPhone is in use and, as Designboom details, includes an "acoustic tunnel that amplifies the sound coming from the speaker of the iPhone."
Penthouse in Tom Kundig Designed Building Asks $499K
1111 E. Pike is notable as being a 2011 AIA Housing Award winning project designed by Olson Kundig Architect's Tom Kundig. Inspired by classic cars that used to dot auto row showrooms right along this road, the building boasts big windows, high ceilings, steel features, and an exterior of colorful panelized siding. Penthouse Unit 603, which just hit the market asking $499K (plus $455/mo. in HOA dues) packs a lot of lifestyle into 750 square feet. The 1-BR has some great views from the outside deck as well as the living area. Is it more like an "open 1-BR?" It might feel that way in the bedroom, which resembles more of a large hallway with a bed in it. But, you're probably here less for the personal space and more for what's around it. The rooftop deck upstairs, the Capitol Hill lifestyle below. Plus, the custom-designed "puzzle door" in the unit allows owners to adapt the space as they see fit. Don't like the way everything lines up? Change it yourself.
Cornerspotted: Seneca & 7th (or Hubbell, Depending)
Yesterday, we asked you to guess this Seattle intersection from 1935. The fantastically-named Kalakalot guessed 7th and Seneca and that is correct, though we also would have accepted Seneca & Hubbell.
Images: Seattle Municipal Archives, Google Maps
As you can see, the Seneca Market and the apartment building on the right are now a parking lot, though there's a high-rise in the background to make up for it. Here's another angle of the street widening project that helped make way for the eventual I-5 highway that would go almost underneath this spot some years later.
· All Cornerspotter coverage [CS]
· Butterworth Building [Wiki]
· All Cornerspotter coverage [CS]
· Butterworth Building [Wiki]
This Week in Strange, Weird & Terrible Seattle Real Estate Listing Photos
As the weekend approaches, let's take a look around the Seattle real estate listings to find some examples of the strange, the weird and just the plain terrible. (Come across one we missed? let us know…)
Stager 1: "If we're gonna sell this house, we need an image that conveys excitement, hope, wonder and the anticipation of things to come."
Stager 2: "I've got it!"
Stager 2: "I've got it!"
Check Out This Whole House Remodel on Mercer Island
Project Name: Whole House Remodel
Location: Mercer Island
Timeframe: September 2012 - February 2013
Cost: $240K
Professional: Schock Construction & contractors
Description: his project was located on a steep driveway with limited access, making it challenging for all the subcontractors to have access when needed. The kitchen originally was a galley style with little room for the owners to cook together. Schock removed and moved walls to create a larger footprint to open the space up along with adding and moving windows to take advantage of the incredible view. The stairwell walls on the lower floors were opened up while the upper staircase walls were removed completely, replaced with a stainless and wood open-style railing system. In the downstairs area, they built a kitchenette for movie nights and guests along with a new bathroom and laundry room.
Location: Mercer Island
Timeframe: September 2012 - February 2013
Cost: $240K
Professional: Schock Construction & contractors
Description: his project was located on a steep driveway with limited access, making it challenging for all the subcontractors to have access when needed. The kitchen originally was a galley style with little room for the owners to cook together. Schock removed and moved walls to create a larger footprint to open the space up along with adding and moving windows to take advantage of the incredible view. The stairwell walls on the lower floors were opened up while the upper staircase walls were removed completely, replaced with a stainless and wood open-style railing system. In the downstairs area, they built a kitchenette for movie nights and guests along with a new bathroom and laundry room.
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Earlier, we heard that Seattle had its lowest supply of homes for sale on record in March. Now comes news that Seattle has set a new record. Last month the average number of days a Seattle house spent on the market quickened to an average of eight days from nine in April. The number of homes sold above list price increased to 46.5 percent in May from 43.7 percent in April. Last year only 37.4 percent of homes sold above list. [Redfin]Updating the Curbed Map of Where to Swim in Seattle
Last year we mapped out some of the best spots to go for a swimaround Seattle when the weather turns nice. Usually that's mid-July but, have you been outside lately? It's been summer weather for a few weeks now and there's no time to delay. Everybody needs to get in the water. We've gone ahead and expanding our list of essential swimming spots to twenty. We've also expanded the range to some of the best spots on the Eastside, down by Renton and even one in Redmond. There's no shortage of swimming pools and cool lakes in the area. Let this be your swimtastic starting point to a great summer.
Here's a 3-BR Portage Bay Floating Home Asking $1.3M
A recent change to the Seattle shoreline plan prevents any new floating residences from moving in. That includes Lake Union so if you want to live in one, you're going to have to choose from what's already there. That includes this 1,500 square-foot floating home in Portage Bay that just listed for $1.3M. You could probably see this place on solid ground and it wouldn't look much different. But put it on the water and all of a sudden that living room view looks a whole lot cooler. Comfortable living found inside, especially when you take the twirling staircase up to the bedrooms, each featuring their own private deck view. Plenty of room out back for your kayak or canoe, too. Oh, you're gonna need a kayak and/or canoe for sure...
The 10 Most Expensive Listings Near Chambers Bay Golf Course
If you wanted to find a place to stay this weekend while the U.S. Open takes place at Chambers Bay Golf Course...good luck. The prices are crazy, the crowds are huge and parking is...well...nonexistent. But if you're thinking more long-term, well then that opens up some options for you. Chambers Bay is located at the southern edge of University Place, named for a university campus that was never actually built there. Today, it's on the higher end of Washington towns with high per capita income (go figure). It's also right on the water, and in the case of Day Island, in the water, so it's not surprising to hear there's a few $1M+ options on the market. But, not all of them are. We took a look around University Place to see what's available and what you get for your money. Take a swing and check out the map below to see if it'd be worth it to live within 1-wood distance of Chambers Bay.
Cornerspotter: Making Way For Modernity in 1935
Cornerspotter is the Curbed Seattle feature in which we show you a historical photo taken somewhere in the city and you identify the location. Impress fellow Curbed readers with your knowledge by leaving guesses in the comments or send them to our tipline: seattle@curbed.com. We'll post the answer on Friday. And hey: no cheating!
Image: Seattle Municipal Archives
Back in 1935, this First Hill road needed to go from not-so-wide to wide. It was part of a much larger project to make Seattle easier to drive and to make way for the burgeoning population. Nowadays the trend is to compact some roads to make room for pedestrians but back then it was all about the cars. To that point, there would soon be a major highway running right behind where this picture was taken. There's a big clue to one of the streets on that market to the right. Otherwise, it's up to you to figure out what Seattle intersection we're looking at.
Modern Prefab Coops for the World's Hippest Chickens
All photos via Inhabitat
These days, humans aren't the only ones with amazing prefab homesto dream about. With the Moop, a modular prefab coop made of plywood and redwood strips, the coolest chickens on the block will also have something to put on their wish-lists. Masterminded by San Francisco-area architect Peter Strzebniok and his wife, Deborah, the Moop starts with a two-by-seven-foot setup big enough for two chickens and can be expanded to larger configurations that can fit four chickens. With a starting cost of $600, it's not cheap—but in the world of fancy chicken coops, the Moop is a much more attainable luxury than, say, the $100,000 coop inspired by Versailles.
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