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11th Avenue Cottages Break Ground in Kirkland

by Grouparchitect
House Bill 1110, Kirkland, Middle Housing, Multi-family
October 2, 2024

Construction began this week on our first cottage housing project in Kirkland. Located a few blocks from downtown Kirkland, the 11th Avenue Cottages are creating two new homes and remodeling a third on an existing site.  Kirkland’s cottage housing allowances already largely follow the forthcoming middle housing code changes and intent, so Grouparchitect for one is anxious to see where the final code language falls to see what’s next in the city for higher density residential projects like this one.    ...

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Cru at Willows Awarded Built Green 4-Star!

by Grouparchitect
Award, Built Green, Grouparchitect, Multi-family
September 25, 2024

Our newest multifamily project in Redmond, CRU at Willows, just earned its Built Green 4-Star rating in September 2024. Many thanks to the design and construction team on this project for all their hard work. CRU is now open and leasing units, with commercial tenants already in design and permitting. More updates To learn more about Built Green follow the link below! https://www.builtgreen.net/about/#mission...

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Keasy.ai: Collaborate, Create, Celebrate

by Grouparchitect
Grouparchitect, House Bill 1110, Middle Housing, Multi-family, Tacoma
September 18, 2024

Keasy.ai is a startup company offering a property management platform oriented to all scales of multifamily properties and landlords. Brian Palidar with Grouparchitect was recently invited to attend a celebration party for the initial launch of their new app. Keasy was initially founded by Liat and Guy Arama, both ex-tech entrepreneurs as well as multifamily owners and landlords, who wanted to offer up to others the innovative property management tools they had developed for themselves to automate much of the process. It...

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One Seattle Plan and Middle Housing Update – September 2024

by Grouparchitect
Grouparchitect, House Bill 1110, Middle Housing, Multi-family
September 14, 2024

Welcome to September! Many thanks to AIA Seattle for hosting a continuing education seminar this week which features multiple planning managers from Seattle, Tacoma, Bellevue, and Shoreline talking about their cities and how they’re approaching the middle housing code changes. Today we’ll focus on updating you on SEATTLE. Seattle is making progress on middle housing but also in other types of upzone changes as well. Many other areas besides Neighborhood Residential will be updated for new zoning types and designations, so...

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Home in Tacoma Update – September 2024

by Grouparchitect
Grouparchitect, House Bill 1110, Middle Housing, Multi-family, Tacoma
September 13, 2024

Many thanks to AIA Seattle for hosting a continuing education seminar this week which features multiple planning managers from Seattle, Tacoma, Bellevue, and Shoreline talking about their cities and how they’re approaching the middle housing code changes. Today we’ll focus on updating everyone on TACOMA. Tacoma is making progress on middle housing, and it now has some working calendar dates attached to everything. Per my discussions this week with Shirley Schultz, Interim Planning Manager, the final stages of the process are...

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The Row Apartments Earn Built Green 4-Star!

by Grouparchitect
Award, Built Green, Grouparchitect, Multi-family
August 13, 2024

Our recent project in Seattle’s University District just earned its Built Green 4-Star rating in August 2024. Many thanks to the design and construction team on this project for all their hard work making The Row Apartments ready to open! To learn more about Built Green follow the link below! https://www.builtgreen.net/about/#mission...

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House Bill 1110 and Kirkland 2044

by Grouparchitect
House Bill 1110, Kirkland, Middle Housing, Multi-family
June 24, 2024

The city of Kirkland is still in early stages of looking at the implications of incorporating HB1110 requirements into the zoning code. Comprehensive plan changes are in review now, but not much more than an initial comparison of middle housing requirements under HB1110 compared at face value to the current Kirkland zoning codes. See excerpts below. We followed up with Adam Weinstein, Director of Planning and Building, to get his preliminary take on the analysis work to date, and he confirmed...

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House Bill 1110 and Shoreline

by Grouparchitect
House Bill 1110, Middle Housing, Multi-family, Shoreline
May 11, 2024

Shoreline appears to already be well on their way to incorporating middle housing. We first dove deep into a video from Shoreline from their Home Improvement Workshop Presentation in April 2024 to catch up on where they are planning to go with HB1110 compliance. The video with Elise Keim, planning manager with Shoreline, went into great detail from a number of angles with this presentation and gave a fantastic overview of how the middle housing process will work overall and...

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House Bill 1110 and Everett 2044

by Grouparchitect
Everett, House Bill 1110, Middle Housing, Multi-family
May 11, 2024

Hello! – Everett is in phase II of their overall comprehensive plan process to create Everett 2044. We took a look at their documents to date with respect to HB1110 and middle housing and Alternative 3 appears to be our best initial reference that investigates how and where middle housing, or a comprehensive plan design that emphasizes middle housing, would evolve. Notably but not surprisingly, the areas of focus are clustered around strong transportation connectors and routes such as Highway 99,...

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House Bill 1110 and Bellevue

by Grouparchitect
Grouparchitect, House Bill 1110, Middle Housing, Multi-family
May 10, 2024

We noted in earlier posts that some cities won’t be quick to update codes to be in compliance with HB1110, and Bellevue is living up to that projection. Looking around more at where they are, we’re seeing that Bellevue squarely in the middle of their comprehensive plan (comp plan) amendments for 2024, the first step is preparing to push forward code compliant zoning changes for HB1110. It appears that comp plan changes and other procedural activities will be ongoing through...

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