High Costs Mean High Prices: Cost and Delay List Keeps Growing
The list of costs and delays to housing production in Seattle that I have been curating has grown to over 40 items. Each of these has it’s own stories. I am exploring how we can use Smartsheet to make the list accessible to builders and developers so they can add, elaborate, correct, and, I hope, […]
Built Green: Seattle’s First Emerald Star Home by Dwell Development Exceeds Net Zero Energy
In 2015, Dwell Development completed construction of Seattle’s first Emerald Star home in the Ballard community. This 2,218 square-foot home combines green technology, renewable energy, rainwater capture, and reclaimed materials to meet Built Green’s Emerald Star certification, the program’s highest certification level. To achieve Emerald Star status, a home must show it will achieve net […]
Non-Profits On $500K Units: “It Is Simply Too Complicated to Explain.”
I don’t usually root around lots of public meeting minutes, even for City Council or legislative meetings. But for some reason yesterday I thought I’d look up the last few meetings of the Capitol Hill Housing Board of Directors. You may not know it, but Capitol Hill Housing is a Public Development Authority which means […]
