New boot-like skyscraper planned for downtown Seattle
May 9, 2014, 10:26 AM | Updated: 11:37 am
Designs for a new skyscraper planned for downtown Seattle have been released.(Image courtesy Wright Runstad & Company)
(Image courtesy Wright Runstad & Company)
The design for a new skyscraper planned to grace the Seattle skyline has been released.
The 1.15 million square foot project that will sit next to the Rainier Tower will be 50 stories high and sort of looks like a tall boot.
Wright Runstad & Company was selected by the University of Washington Board of Regents to redevelop Rainier Square, a 140,000 square foot retail property that is part of the University’s Metropolitan Tract. It’s the original site of the university before it was moved in 1885.
“We are absolutely thrilled to be awarded this opportunity,” said Greg Johnson, Wright Runstad & Company president. “The 66,000 SF site is the single best location in the city for this landmark project we are proposing. It is simply great real estate any way you look at it.”
The new tower will include approximately 240 apartment units, 750,000 square feet of office space, a 15-story hotel, and 30,000 square feet for restaurants and shops.
Construction on the project is expected to start in 2015 and be completed by late 2017.
