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Capitol Hill Seattle has the details on Trace’s neighbor. AKA the Precision Tune apartments.
Looking at the design review docs [pdf] it won’t have an impact on Trace Lofts but will have an impact on the east facing Trace North units.

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Last Friday I stopped by the Trace North happy hour and enjoyed some wine with Anecia and a few other buyers. I also toured a few units and instead of taking photos I shot a bunch of short lame videos.
Good news, they have one of my favorite floor plans left, the 1 bedroom + [...]

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Not to be out done by Brix, Trace North is also hosting a happy hour from 6 to 8 pm this Friday.
In other Trace news #402 at Trace Lofts is being re-sold. It originally sold for $515k June 2008 and is listed at $549k. It’s a 820 square foot unit, essentially a studio. I [...]

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A week ago Pizza Fusion, which only opened in November, in the Trace North retail space, closed its doors.
Pizza Fusion wasn’t perfect; the interiors and design, while well intentioned and “green”, it didn’t quite fit in with the Capitol Hill vibe. However, we did love its convenience and would often order take out. (Sadly, [...]

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Last night I looked through the probably hundred or so condos that came on the market in the last two weeks. Nothing really new or exciting. Most looked to be ones that went off the market just before Christmas. The rest were from developments like Trace and Brix putting more inventory in the MLS. And [...]

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Tonight for dinner we visited Pizza Fusion at their Trace North Capitol Hill location. It was their first night open to the public.

The interior features lots of recycled stuff. The chairs and tables are from Sunset Bowl, the hardwood from a school, the brick is recycled too, etc. For delivery vehicles they are even [...]

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Early this week a few of you noticed that the Trace MLS listings went offline. My emails and phone calls to the Trace team went unanswered. Today this email went out from ek:

Trace Lofts. Almost sold out. Thank you for making Trace a success.
Although ek Real Estate Group is no longer representing Trace, we continue [...]

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A reader wrote in:

I thought Urbnlivn’s readers might get a kick out of this note from Trace’s sales department. I admire their optimism, but they’re going for a Pulitzer Prize in chutzpah with their message: rates are down thanks to mortgage-related bank collapses, so you should borrow more money!

Here’s the email:
Dear J.,
We hope that this [...]

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Trace North was partnering with First Horizon and appears to have now switched to Wells Fargo in order to offer a special payment plan if you put 10%+ down.
Their incentive is for year 1 the rate is 4%, year 2 it is 5% and year 3, 4 and 5 it’s 6%.
It’s not a [...]

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Yesterday it was a question about courtyard living, today it’s about living above a retail space.

Any comments on buying a unit in the 2nd floor above the retail space at Trace North? I’m wondering whether the sound isolation will be good enough to sleep soundly even if the restaurant below the unit is open [...]

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