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January 9, 2019
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Restoration work to start when ACS moves out; 43-unit Arbor Place to be constructed next door By Brandon Macz
QA&Mag News editor
(Above) The Frances Skinner Edris Nurses Home building at 2120 First Ave. N. has been granted Seattle landmark status. Image from Google(Left)The 43-unit Arbor Place apartment building will be constructed in the adjacent parking lot possibly sometime near the end of 2019. Courtesy image
The Seattle City Council last month approved the landmark status of the historic Frances Skinner Edris Nurses Home in Queen Anne, which has been home to the American Cancer Society since the 1980s. Equinox Properties developer Brian Regan nominated the building at 2120 First Ave. N. for landmark status, with plans to develop a 43-unit apartment building in an adjacent parking lot. The building originally housed the nurses home for the Children’s Orthopedic Hospital, which later came to be known as Seattle Children’s Hospital. A new Children’s Orthopedic Hospital was constructed in 1911, and now serves as the Queen Anne Manor senior living facility. The Fresh Air Cottage preceded it in 1908, and the Frances Skinner Edris Nurses Home was built in 1923, after the cottage was razed. It was redesigned by the original architect, A.H. Albertson, in 1928, and is a mix of Colonial and Mission Revival features. Arbor Space LLC purchased the property from ACS for $4.2 million in 2017. The Seattle Landmarks Preservation Board approved its designa-
Legislation for a local improvement district to revitalize Seattle’s waterfront is now ready for vetting by the city council, and has been negotiated down from $200 million to $160 million, and will not include supplemental property assessments down the road.
Durkan says waterfront LID has needed support City council to consider legislation for local improvement district to generate $160 million By Brandon Macz
QA&Mag News editor
Mayor Jenny Durkan used the Seattle Aquarium as the venue last Thursday to announce that there is enough support from property owners to transmit legislation to the city council for creating a local improvement district for the $712 million Waterfront for All project. Negotiations with property owners, who had been
tion on May 16, and the city council granted its approval on Dec. 18. Regan tells Queen Anne News that the landmarked building will be restored and the interior updated when ACS moves out later this year. It will be known as Arbor Space, and continue serving non-residential uses. The Arbor Place apartment development next door has gone through administrative design review by the West Design Review Board, and is in the final phase of the master use permit zoning and environmental review process, which Regan expects to take another 2-3 months. Final plans will be submitted to the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections after that, which could mean another 12 months before construction can start, according to Regan. While several residents worried about the loss of street trees around the site, Regan says they will remain, and are the reason the project is called Arbor Place. The building will be 30 feet tall, plus another 5 feet for a pitched roof, with 16 underground parking spaces. Residences will be 39 small-efficiency dwelling units and four one-bedrooms.
Photo by Brandon Macz
looking at covering $200 million of the project to revitalize Seattle’s waterfront once the Alaskan Way Viaduct comes down, had been expected to conclude last year, with legislation going to the city council by late November. If 60 percent opposed the LID, the legislation would not have gone through. Protests filed as of early December had reached 52 percent, according to the Seattle Times. Durkan said during the Jan. 3 news conference there were enough property owners had signed a
written agreement not to protest the LID that she is confident the legislation will proceed. “They’ve agreed they will not protest,” the mayor said. The city has signatures representing at least 51 percent of the impacted property owners, an agreement hashed out with those future LID payers reducing their portion of the Waterfront for All project cost from $200 million to $160 million. The LID, Page 9