Riverview West 4th Avenue | 78.5m | 24s | Trico Homes | S2

This project badly needs to happen. I know it's a very typical design but I'm OK with that. It's not Telus Sky, but it's not Cornerstone either. I'm in Seattle right now and they have dozens of unassuming new residential towers like this one in the area immediate north of downtown near the Amazon campus (Beltline on steroids). The grade level and podium treatments and thousands of extra residents they have brought into the area are making a huge difference compared to my last visit here. Suffice it to say, the east side of downtown badly needs new development and new residents. At a time when our population is near w million, it's a tragedy that our downtown feels less vibrant than it did when we were at 1 million.
 
Albertasaurus said:
This project badly needs to happen. I know it's a very typical design but I'm OK with that. It's not Telus Sky, but it's not Cornerstone either. I'm in Seattle right now and they have dozens of unassuming new residential towers like this one in the area immediate north of downtown near the Amazon campus (Beltline on steroids). The grade level and podium treatments and thousands of extra residents they have brought into the area are making a huge difference compared to my last visit here. Suffice it to say, the east side of downtown badly needs new development and new residents. At a time when our population is near w million, it's a tragedy that our downtown feels less vibrant than it did when we were at 1 million.
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Less vibrant than 1 million is a stretch. The Riverwalk investments, East Village, Central Library, and improved transit service has really brought life into a region previously exclusive to the office worker demographic and business hours. I do completely agree that private investment and residences need to follow the public investment - and in the case of Downtown West, public investment needs to start following private investment.

Perhaps it's more vibrant than 250-500k though, which might be even sadder.
 
A bit of a design change with the amended plans:

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9 story, 32.4m tall:

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Those stairwells will make perfect seating for the area's wandering residents...

Something desperately needs to fill that Detroit style wasteland. I will take it at this point. Hopefully they colour match the easy trim on what I assume will be another Hardie panel exterior.
 
Unpopular opinion: remove the CRU's (they will be vacant for years and years) and just add townhomes BUT somehow salvage the trees lining 4th Ave. They would be a great buffer for the residents facing a car sewer.
 
The interface (or lack thereof) with 4th Avenue is due to the flood plain levels in this area. There are long term plans to raise 4th Avenue out of the flood plain, similar to the other roads in East Village, that will then bring it level with this building's ground floor (and the buildings to the east). Timing of this is unknown though.
 
crisp said:
Unpopular opinion: remove the CRU's (they will be vacant for years and years) and just add townhomes BUT somehow salvage the trees lining 4th Ave. They would be a great buffer for the residents facing a car sewer.
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yeah would be great if they could keep those trees. Even with them though I don't see how ground level townhomes could work on that site given a) 4th Ave is a total shit show and b) the DIC is right there
 
The new design is a major downgrade from the original design 😐
It’s proposals like this that bring up the old debate of whether anything is better than what’s there now.
This doesn’t look anything close to a downtown development, but at this point, I’m wondering if anything would ever get developed there if it wasn’t done in the cheap.
 
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