Everett Infill and Small Developments

At some point one of these buildings in the commercial triangle must build out with significant dining/retail right. 10,000 people with above average income within a 5 minute walking distance just sounds like a winning location but idk
 
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sean99090900 said:
At some point one of these buildings in the commercial triangle must build out with significant dining/retail right. 10,000 people with above average income within a 5 minute walking distance just sounds like a winning location but idk
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IIRC the Commercial Triangle zoning plan includes a SW-NE pedestrian spine either along Garden Street or Boston Street (or between them) through the heart of this neighborhood. Further, the buildings are designed as such to include or convert to ground-level commercial space as demand enables.

One of my favorite lessons in urban planning school that proved to be true is that when a neighborhood undergoes gentrification--in this case, creates or upgrades housing--the last thing to change in the neighborhood will be the retail. Retail and commercial dynamics respond to a market that's already established there. Give it some time, Everett's commercial mix will improve soon after the construction dust settles and the residential occupancy maxes out.

PS: a photo from takeoff a couple weeks ago I meant to share.

 

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Looking at the video cube3 shared showing what it will look like in 2027 really hits home how projects with massive lot sizes really make awkward layouts/neighborhoods. This could have been broken up into probably over 10 buildings. The main street.. vale street, which every building is facing towards, probably wont be too bad, but besides that theres no room for side streets or back streets, and theres no street grid or rhyme or reason besides just facing vale st.

Its a pretty small area at the moment so it can still work out, but I feel like they need to break up the lots more and add more streets that connect to eachother. Even when its a single developer thats building a project, if theres a masterplan that theyre sticking to they will build multiple different buildings vs one huge one. Its so important to get the dense street grid figured out first, then build according to it, vs trying to make stuff up as you go and hope for the best. They really should have planned out a street grid here and the developers would have then filled in each block.

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stick n move said:
Looking at the video cube3 shared showing what it will look like in 2027 really hits home how projects with massive lot sizes really make awkward layouts/neighborhoods. This could have been broken up into probably over 10 buildings. The main street.. vale street, which every building is facing towards, probably wont be too bad, but besides that theres no room for side streets or back streets, and theres no street grid or rhyme or reason besides just facing vale st.

Its a pretty small area at the moment so it can still work out, but I feel like they need to break up the lots more and add more streets that connect to eachother. Even when its a single developer thats building a project, if theres a masterplan that theyre sticking to they will build multiple different buildings vs one huge one. Its so important to get the dense street grid figured out first, then build according to it, vs trying to make stuff up as you go and hope for the best. They really should have planned out a street grid here and the developers would have then filled in each block.
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Looks like there are a handful of smaller lots in the plans, but mostly just more superblocks lol. I don't think I mind it that much, they aren't that much larger than the residential blocks next door and I assume they're saving money on the economies of scale. That said, I do hope that once the industrial redevelopment finishes up, the next step would be consolidating 4-6ish individual residential lots nearby into the smaller buildings/tighter grid layout you're talking about.
 
I’m liking the copious amounts of brick. I wish all developers realized most 5 over 1’s look much better and more natural the more brick you use. Everybody is used to seeing very large and long brick buildings due to old warehouses, mills, and office buildings scattered throughout most cities that were made out of brick. So since 5 over 1’s are pretty large buildings it looks a lot more natural when theyre clad in brick.

When they clad them in fiber cement or party panels most people arent really used to seeing huge expanses of those materials cladding large buildings. So in many cases it looks off, thats why so many developers try all the tricks in the book to break up the facade when they use those materials and many times it just ends up messy. If they just go with brick more often they wont have that problem. Also in this case I like that theyre adding some nice detailing with the brick, goes a long way.
 
I hope I live to see the day when somehow, whatever powers homes can be accessed in some way other than wires in the air.
 
FK4 said:
I hope I live to see the day when somehow, whatever powers homes can be accessed in some way other than wires in the air.
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Underground electric utilities are not exactly a new innovation. Edison started using them in the late 19th century. Big challenge is that they are about 4x more costly to install than overhead lines, although they often pay for themselves in lifetime costs from reduced maintenance and catastrophic failures. (We have a first cost bias for investment in America.)
 
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JeffDowntown said:
Underground electric utilities are not exactly a new innovation. Edison started using them in the late 19th century. Big challenge is that they are about 4x more costly to install than overhead lines, although they often pay for themselves in lifetime costs from reduced maintenance and catastrophic failures. (We have a first cost bias for investment in America.)
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of course, but it’s likely that eventually, power transmission as we know it will be completely different. Maybe it will be in two centuries, maybe in three decades, but it will happen eventually.
 
FK4 said:
of course, but it’s likely that eventually, power transmission as we know it will be completely different. Maybe it will be in two centuries, maybe in three decades, but it will happen eventually.
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You can transmit power wirelessly, but it is pretty dicey -- things that get between the transmitter and receiver tend to get fried.
 

Mixed-Use Project Approved Along Ferry St. in Everett​

“Plans have been approved for a new mixed-use project at 108 Ferry Street in Everett, site of the Ferry Street Grill. The new building would feature 1,950 sq. ft. of restaurant space (with a 16-seat capacity) and twenty residential units. Units will include a mix of 1 & 2 bedrooms, with 3 units designated as affordable.”

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Mixed-Use Project Approved Along Ferry St. in Everett

Mixed-Use Project Approved Along Ferry St. in Everett
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