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Here’s the word from Escala.
Dear Matt,
As a valued registrant, we would like to share with you details of the important changes happening at Escala Seattle. First and foremost, our pricing has been dramatically reduced. Below is a list of starting prices for our One, Two and Three Bedroom Homes.
1 BEDROOM, 1.5 BATH, 952sf Homes [...]

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Word is that this weekend Escala buyers started to get calls with their new pricing this weekend. Does anyone have examples of how they’ve re-priced the units?
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I enjoyed Tim’s Escala timeline though annoyed he thought of the idea before I did. This lead me to wonder about those 6 sales at Escala and so I dug them up in the county records:
#602 – $918k – 1/08/2010
#906 – $660k – 11/5/2009
#1101 – $605k – 11/10/2009
#1901 – $700k – 1/4/2010
#2101 – $1.860m – [...]

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Here’s Escala’s teaser site if you want to sign up to be notified about their new pricing: http://www.somethingischangingatescalaseattle.com/
Rennie Marketing Systems out of Vancouver is doing the marketing and Team Builder JLS is the listing agent.
In his weekly newsletter Bill Hume at Team Builder JLS describes the changes:

The developers of Escala have created the big [...]

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Stroupe has the scoop that there is a big shakeup going on at Escala:

We got wind of some big news happening over at ESCALA. To begin with, the sales center is currently closed for an approximate 3 weeks. A new direction to take place is being discussed behind closed doors during that time.
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It was an already shortened work day due to a dentist appointment and sailing so I couldn’t make the Escala topping off ceremony. Plus, I’m afraid of heights. I would have freaked out up there.
Fortunately they forwarded some pictures.

The Stroupe Group did make it and posted a brief write-up.
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I recently received an update on Escala. Surprisingly it was a rather plain email though rather text heavy. Here’s the most interesting part:

Escala is fully funded and will be complete in late Summer 2009. We expect homeowners to begin moving into their homes in October and November 2009.
Our 1 bedroom homes are located on floors [...]

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Chris Stiebler from Escala sent out a construction update email:

The southeast corner two- and three- bedroom homes have great morning light and as we can see from the photo below, have unbelievable views down the highly desirable Fourth Avenue corridor.

Here’s the view:

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The Seattle PI has a full page, above the fold, lengthy story on the danger of increasing condo dues for new construction projects. I guess people are tired of reading about the election and the bailout.

After moving into the building and forming their own homeowner association two years ago, 2200 residents were faced with [...]

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Escala re-launched or added content to their websites recently. (To notify everyone they sent an email but linked one of the button images in the email to the wrong website and so they sent the email twice.)
The main Escala site is not surprisingly a Flash based site.
The benefits of a Flash based site are:

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