urbnlivn, a seattle condo blog

The Seattle Times has an article about all the recent conversion and ‘adaptive reuse’ projects, Throughout Seattle, vintage condos conserve character, and takes a look at the Pittsburgh and Trace Lofts. :

A growing number of developers throughout the region and across the nation are rehabbing historic-lookingbuildings and turning them into new condos with an […]

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#201 is SOLD

Yesterday a reader tipped me off that #201 might be unreserved, I hurriedly e-mailed Trace. Now even though I stayed up late last night I woke up early this morning to check my e-mail. No e-mails. I checked repeatedly this morning while trying to sleep and finally decided to give the Trace Lofts […]

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Tomorrow is my purchase and sale appointment at Trace. If you’ve followed the blog, comments and forums you’ll know that I originally had my hopes set on either #301 or a fourth or fifth floor unit. The top floor units feature balconies or terraces, floor to ceiling windows and on the fifth floor 14′ ceilings. […]

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Tomorrow I’m going to tour unit #408 ($495,000 for 776 square feet, 120 square feet of terrace), the unit I reserved, at Trace Lofts. Before going and getting too excited I thought it would be important to run the numbers while I’m still jaded. What I did was have an agent pull past sales from […]

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Brix
Brix is unveiling their new full size model unit today from 6-8pm. I stopped by yesterday to see it and it looks good. I’m mostly puzzled why for $495,000 I can buy a two story 917 square foot loft there but can only buy a 761 square foot view unit at Trace. It’s too bad […]

Popularity: 20% [?]

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Wow, I just got back from the Trace informational session, and I am excited!
First a photo from Todd Bates (via Vlad):

What happened was they had the following people speak for 5-10 minutes followed by a long Q&A followed by 1:1 time:

Ted Schroth the developer
Jim Goldberg the sales manager
Jeff Oaklief the architect
Robin Freeman the interior designer
Michael […]

Popularity: 8% [?]

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A gym seems like such the wrong thing to put in the Trace retail space. From the PSBJ, Fitness club opens, plans Seattle expansion:

Xplore Fitness, owned by Travis and Mari Blackford, took over the space previously occupied by Pure Fitness at 808 Second Ave. The company plans to open a First Hill location at the […]

Popularity: 45% [?]

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When I first heard about Trace Lofts a year ago I didn’t get too excited about it. Who would want to live at 12th and Madison? At the time all the night life action was further west on the Pike-Pine corridor. Now a year later the 12th and Madison area has Havana and will be […]

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Trace Lofts is 50% reserved. It’s surprising it took them a few weeks to get to this point when Veer Lofts hit 50% in about 3 days. I suspect it’s because Trace is at a higher price point (though likely has higher quality finishes) and pent up demand for Veer has been growing for about […]

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Edward Krigsman from Trace’s marketing firm sent me this article from the Seattle PI, On Dining: All roads lead to your choice of appetizing dining options:

Gun Club is being developed in the 42-unit Trace Lofts (1400 12th Ave.) across 12th Avenue from the Piston & Ring Building. Klebeck called Trace Lofts “a perfect fit for […]

Popularity: 5% [?]

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