October 14

Stone Way to get four-story, mixed-use building

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The evolution of the look and use of Stone Way will continue when buildings that front Wallingford’s western boulevard from N. 44th to N. 43rd streets are razed, and a four-story, 93-unit apartment building rises in their place.

Property owner RD Merrill Company plans to build market-rate apartments, with underground parking for all tenants, the company’s VP of Investments Billy Pettit told us.

At the street level will be commercial space, which Pettit said they’ll try to fill with small local businesses. Pettit used the example of Merrill’s recent development The Corydon in the University District as the type of building that would go on Stone Way.

This is the proposed design for a new 4-story mixed-use development on Stone Way between N. 44th and N. 43rd streets. Many more views of the design are available in this document.

“Our goal here is to do smaller neighborhood projects in neighborhoods we like,” said Pettit.

Two structures on Stone Way will be demolished for this project: the commercial space that houses the Oom Yung Doe martial arts school and a nine-unit apartment building that was built in the 1950s.

N. 44th Street and Stone Way

N. 43rd Street and Stone Way

Oom Yung Doe students may be concerned that it will leave the area. Greg Martin at Oom Yung Doe wants to put those fears to rest and commented by email:

The School of Oom Yung Doe loves the Wallingford neighborhood, especially our location on Stone Way. We feel that we have been embraced by the Wallingford community and look forward to staying in the Wallingford area. Over the past two years we have developed strong ties to our neighbors providing free after school classes for Hamilton Middle School, earning the YMCA Volunteer of the Year award there, and working closely with Meridian Elementary School and the Wallingford Senior Center just to name a few. Also, Oom Yung Doe Instructor Greg Martin was recently nominated for Vice President of the Wallingford Chamber of Commerce after serving on the Board of Directors for one year. We have done so much in Wallingford in the past two years that we wouldn’t want to go anywhere else.

We have known for some time that the building will eventually be torn down and replaced. What we would really like to do is to occupy a space in the new building when it is built. In order to remain open during the construction time and continue teaching classes, we are currently looking for other locations in Wallingford. The space for lease on Stone Way and 45th across from The Boys and Girls Club is one possible location but nothing is final at this time.

The public is welcome to the Design Review Board meeting about this project next Monday in the U District. Here are details:

Date: Monday, October 18, 2010
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: University Heights Center
5031 University Way NE, Room 209

The documents that were submitted to the Design Review Board are on this lengthy .pdf on the Seattle Department of Planning and Development’s site and include details of the proposed design and an extensive list of concerns that were raised at the Early Design Guidance Board meeting regarding the project last June.

Project manager Tom Fanning of PB Architects told us that, in a nutshell, neighbors urged the designers to be respectful because the new development will be next to a single-family zone; to mimic a lot of surrounding buildings and not to design something gaudy or outlandish; and to provide ample parking, especially since Tutta Bella is across the street and its patrons park in the area already. This new development will include 93 underground parking spaces.

Fanning anticipates that demolition will begin in about 18 months, and the project will take 18 months to complete.

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  1. I love the character these mixed use buildings add to our neighborhood. I hope they can get a Jamba Juice, an Edward Jones and a tanning place in there to better serve the community. More of these projects please!

  2. I agree with PR. That hole in the ground has been an eye sore for the past few years. Why do they put something there that would benefit the Wallingford community?

  3. I think a 4 story is too high when immediately adjascent to single family homes to the west. We aught to be filling the hole in the ground down at 40th first, and we aught not to allow 100 unit buildings to provide undergound parking for all the tennants. This only adds 100 more cars into our local traffic problem. 44th and Stone is a short walk from all sorts of great bus routes.

    Agreed about the businesses that tend to move into new mixed use buildings. They're awful. No character, just cookie cutter businesses that kill the 'placeness' of our place.

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