Massive hotel planned for Greyhound station site
Seattlest broke the story yesterday, and now there's a write-up in the Seattle Times: a developer has proposed building a 51-story hotel at the site of Seattle's Greyhound bus station, at 8th and Stewart. The 1,200 room hotel would be the largest in the city, assuming the Design Review Board gives its approval. By the way,
the area around the Greyhound station is booming. There are two 30+ story buildings within a block of that site already under construction. Which means, following Seattle protocol, we have to come up with a name for this new neighborhood, no matter how small it is. "The Hound," perhaps?
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"broke" is a bit strong. it sounds like this has been in the works for months.
http://www.seattleweekly.com/2006-11-08/news/putting-the-dog-down.php
Posted by: josh | January 30, 2008 4:30 PM
It is a shame that the city of Seattle is allowing ONCE AGAIN to tear down a historical building that had quite a bit to do with the transportation history of Seattle. That building was originally built in 1910/1911 by the Seattle Everett Traction Co. to accomodate the Interurban Rail Cars that ran from Seattle to Everett. The line was started and ran from April 1910 to February 1939. They incorporated busses in 1912 and in 1939 when the interurbans went out of service, ran the busses under the "North Coast Transportation Co." from Seattle all the way up to Bellingham. In 1947, they were bought by Greyhound. How do I know so much? My father was one of the motormen on the Interurbans, drove the North Coast Busses, and drove for Greyhound. Do we really need another high rise in Seattle? another convention center?
Posted by: Jeanne | January 30, 2008 5:56 PM
seattle needs to tear down old dumpy buildings and replace them with buildings as tall as possible so it alleviates the housing crunch downtown and to also increase hotel room options.
the lower the height limits, the lower the number of people there will be who can live on top of a small patch of land.
this city needs to move forward to look modern and sleek.
Posted by: dguy | January 31, 2008 1:01 AM
I spoke to the architect who filed the proposed land use application. She said they actually have a meeting to discuss the landmark status of the building. Sounds to me like this isn't a done deal.
Posted by: Jessie | January 31, 2008 10:29 AM
If anyone on this planet could consider that greyhound station anything but a junkie laden dump then they are idiots. Tear it down! I'd rather see hundreds of pampered millionaires everyday than the trash that's there now. That bus station is just a conduit for junkies along the west coast to come up here and burden our social services. What's the deal with having to save every peice of crap building in this city. Take a picture of the damn thing and put it in a museum. Acknowledge, move-on.
Posted by: Rich Boswell | January 31, 2008 10:38 AM