Developer Security Properties had its second Early Design Guidance (EDG) meeting last week for Belltown 36 and will need to return for a third after being denied. The proposed development, located at 314 Bell Street in Belltown, calls for the construction of 30-story tower with 325 residential units, about 7,000 square feet of street-level retail, and parking for 250 vehicles.
The project is looking to maximize the amount of Housing Affordability and Livability (HALA) funding for to create affordable and housing for families with children. The project’s preferred design option places family friendly units on level 3. Levels 4-19 and 21-28 will have the residential units. Additional indoor and outdoor amenity space, including a landscaped roof deck, will be located on levels 20 and 29.
Bumgardner Architects
The main concerns brought up at the Early Design Guidance meeting were in regard to the tower’s massing and scale lacking cohesion with its surrounding neighborhood. Belltown 36 is surrounded by a number of brick buildings such as the Fleming, the Adams, the Franklin, and the Charlesgate.
Bumgardner Architects
The construction of Belltown 36 will require the demolition of current structures on the 19,440 square foot site. The site currently has a one-story warehouse that was recently used by Mary’s Place and the building previously home to Two Bells Tavern that closed at the end of 2017.
The Belltown 36 team includes Bumgardner Architects and landscape architect, Mithun. Bumgardner Architects previously worked on the Kinects Tower in the Denny Triangle which won the Residential High Rise of the Year by NAIOP in November 2017.