There’s no shortage of places in the Puget Sound region where extraordinary amounts of construction are occurring, but one block in the Denny Triangle area of downtown Seattle is particularly busy.
Construction started this month on a large mixed-use project called Tilt49, which will have a 37-story apartment tower with 410 units and an 11-story office building. A Seattle company, Touchstone, put the Tilt49 project together, and is developing the office building, which will have 300,000 square feet of space. Mortenson Development and AMLI Residential are developing the apartment tower. More about Tilt49 is at bizj.us/1hqcr3
Tilt49 shares the block with a uniquely designed 40-story, 357-unit apartment tower called Kinects. Security Properties is developing the building, which gets progressively larger on each floor the higher up you go, creating a wedge shape. Bumgardner is the architect, and CKC is the structural engineer. More about Kinects is at bizj.us/1ht34r.
Both Touchstone and Security Properties have cited the Denny Triangle location as a driver of their projects.
Security Properties Chief Development Officer John Marasco said the Kinects name “says it all” because the triangle is at the nexus of Capitol Hill, South Lake Union and downtown, where the Westlake transit hub is half a mile away.
It is a natural development area, he said, given its proximity to downtown and great access to transportation alternatives.
