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Puget Sound Solar was pleased the Ballard Greenfire project – which we are working on – made headlines this week.
From the Seattle Times:
City planners already had approved a six-story, 157-unit condo project on Northwest 56th Street, next to the Ballard Library, when Greenfire Group bought the property two years ago.
It chose to build less, not more — two buildings with just 18 apartments and 18,000 square feet of office and retail space. That’s less than one-third as much development as the property’s zoning allows. Half the 0.8-acre site will be open space, an unheard-of percentage in an urban neighborhood. Seattle has become a mecca for green commercial building in recent years, and Greenfire Campus, scheduled for completion this June, is another variation on that theme….