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Give your opinion on the ‘pit’

By Geeky Swedes · September 9th, 2008 · Comments

Construction may soon be one step closer at the former Safeway location at Stone Way & 39th Ave, sometimes called “the pit.”

Plans call for a 5-story building with 143 residential units and 7 live/work units to be built on the large lot. Nearly 17,000 square feet in retail space will be at street level and parking for 193 vehicles will be below grade.

Here’s one of the sketches of the development from a design review meeting in May. QFC bought the property back in 1993 and demolished the Safeway several years ago to make way for their grocery store. Earlier this year, Prescott Homes took over the property when QFC pulled out. Whether you’re for or against the plans, the city wants to hear from you. There is a community meeting tonight (Tuesday) from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the University Heights Community Center (5031 University Way NE).

  • I used to live right by here (behind the 7-11) and all I can say is that they are really going to need an underground parking garage!
  • It will be interesting to see what they do with this site- I heard that there were some issues with the foundation (springs dumping water into the pit if I recall correctly?) that had gone unresolved that caused QFC to pull out in the first place. Wonder if Prescott's looked into that...
  • brent
    @2

    Don't mess with my Rockstar supplier and nobody gets hurt.
  • Pat
    I concur, definitely not enough parking. At 1.5 cars per household and 90% occupancy all available parking is exhausted, leaving nothing for visitors or retail customers.

    These large anonymous cookie-cutter buildings are going to be the tenement slum buildings of our future. If you're going to create density you also need to provide spaces and features that help build community.
  • Robb
    Not near enough parking, and a lousy location for site access(0n 39th). There's enough traffic through the side streets already from lazy mfs trying to bypass the 40th & Stone stoplight.

    Although if the 7/11 across the street gets demolished too, I will be mollified.
  • Sheila
    Anything is better than that ugly pit. I didn't realize that QFC backed out. I wondered what was taking so long.
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