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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Checking up first on Seattle here with respect to HB1110 and the City’s plan for compliance with the middle housing legislation as discussed last month. One Seattle is the name of their plan documents, you can read more about it here. The timeline for things being updated is out quite a way as suspected, so here’s a rough breakdown of what appears to be the current trajectory: Draft One Seattle Plan (OSP) due fall 2024, then get more public comment. ...
