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Tue. March 13, 2007, 02:26pm PDT
Loft 616 townhomes on the market
Want to live where the action/culture is? Downtown is good but Sixth Ave may be better. The Loft 616 townhomes are on the market and have a website for your buying pleasure. Looks like a pretty solid location there off 6th and Oakes especially with that easy access to too much good food all around. Doesn't look like these are a reality yet -- anyone see what's going on at the site?
I know we looked at a place just off Sixth Ave. and loved the location. Wasn't so sure about all the drunken/staggering foot traffic we would've got being so near the Engine House.
Thanks Claudia!
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3/13/2007 @ 2:36pm
The Trillium Group introduced the project today at the 6th Ave Merchants meeting. So far only a sign is up, but they hope to have the townhomes built by fall 07.
by Claudia
3/13/2007 @ 3:13pm
So what do other 6h Ave merchants and residents think of this kind of new development? I know there area a couple '70s era apartment buildings around there that are pretty ugly. Is this sort of thing welcome?
by KevinFreitas
3/13/2007 @ 3:23pm
At a city council study session on the 10 year tax abatement Councilmember Evans brought up that he was concerned that this townhome project wasn't meeting the density that the city was hoping for in the neighborhood. I agree with him on the concern. The city would like 6th Ave to be a village type neighborhood and bring more density to the area around the Ave. The townhome projects just aren't doing it. It would be nice if 6th Ave. was more self-supporting instead of being such a commuter biz district.
by Jake
3/13/2007 @ 4:17pm
"The city would like 6th Ave to be a village type neighborhood and bring more density to the area around the Ave. The townhome projects just aren't doing it. It would be nice if 6th Ave. was more self-supporting instead of being such a commuter biz district."
The townhomes are better designed than some as they are three stories. However, the living unit over the living space design is essentially mandated by the off-street parking requirement. (See Luzon thread on Exit 133). In California, they call these a "dingbat" design.
Of course, the 10 year tax exemption does not effect building design.
The cars could be parked on the street but the driveways make this impossible.
by Erik
3/13/2007 @ 4:28pm
Here is a Wikipedia example of the housing:
"...[Dingbats] are normally a two-story walk-up apartment-block developed back over the full depth of the site, built of wood and stuccoed over. These are the materials that Rudolf Schindler and others used to build the first modern architecture in Los Angeles, and the dingbat, left to its own devices, often exhibits the basic characteristics of a primitive modern architecture. Round the back, away from the public gaze, they display simple rectangular forms and flush smooth surfaces, skinny steel columns and simple boxed balconies, and extensive overhangs to shelter four or five cars..."[1] "
by Dingbat Housing Example
3/18/2007 @ 10:36pm
Mid 300's? Yeah, I'm out. I'm not apposed to paying those kind of prices, but I want a city like Portland or Minneapolis to come included in the price.
by michael
3/19/2007 @ 6:22am
michael: I agree but that seems to be the median price for that sort of dwelling that's so close to one of the "hot" areas of Tacoma. I'd even wager to say that's a little low. Seems difficult to find good "starter" houses anything north of I-5 and Hwy 16 for under $300,000 that's not a shambles.
by KevinFreitas