Comments on: Pine + Belmont Condo Development: More Details Revealed

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Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:33:35 +0000

[...] Last Tuesday the POWHat Neighborhood Association hosted the developers of Pine and Belmont so the community could find out more about the controversial project. I was unable to attend though Carl Goodman did and contributed an excellent article to Urbnlivn, Pine + Belmont Condo Development: More Details Revealed. Unfortunately the details are not too promising. The biggest concern being that they will not be replacing the five bars they are displacing over noise concerns even though their target demographic is young singles. Capitol Hill won’t be the same. [...]

By: jack

jack — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:05:56 +0000

Sad. This is a cool couple of blocks and I will miss its character dearly.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:14:45 +0000

$500/sf for a 5-0ver-1 is ciminal. You can build it for $325/nsf, including land at $55k per unit. (not sure what they paid), because I’ve jut priced a similar one nearby. Good luck to them

By: POWHat Neighborhood Association

POWHat Neighborhood Association — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:50:09 +0000

Thanks for sharing details of the development, Carl.

Just one point of clarification, Peter Greaves and Wade Metz were approached by the neighborhood association and invited to attend the meeting, not the other way around. The invitation was intended to provide an opportunity for members of the community to get current details about the development directly from the development team. It also gave community members a chance to have a more informal discussion about the project outside of the stifling confines of formal “public comment” opportunities.

I might add that the team invited members of the community to submit examples of the type of architectural features that should be considered and included in the development. If you have strong opinion about the design of this property, I suggest you take them up on their invitation!
-BF, POWHat Neighborhood Association