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Othello Station, High Point recognized for
excellence
Othello Station receives a Gold Nugget
Award, High Point honored with
a "Show You're Green" Award
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SEATTLE—July
12, 2006—Two of Seattle Housing Authority's neighborhoods were honored
with awards over the last month. Othello Station was
recognized by the Pacific Coast Builders Conference at their annual
trade show with a Gold Nugget Honor of Merit Award and the
prestigious Grand Award for their Best Affordable
Project (Under 30 units/acre) category.
The American Institute of Architects awarded High Point with
one of eight "Show You're Green Awards" at their national convention
and design expo.
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Othello Station,
developed by Seattle Housing Authority, built by Walsh Construction
and designed by architect
WRT Solomon E.T.C., was one of
more than 600 entries
to the Gold Nugget Awards competition. The competition honors creative
achievements in architectural design and land-use planning for
residential, commercial and industrial projects. The awards ceremony
is the premier event of this highly regarded trade show which brings
together residential builders and architects from the Pacific Coast
states and neighboring countries.
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Homes built by private
homebuilder
Polygon Northwest at Othello Station |
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Othello Station is the third and final phase of
the NewHolly redevelopment. It features 219 units of new rental
housing, with 163 public housing units and 56 additional rental
units serving those who earn between 30 and 60 percent of Seattle's
median income. It includes homes for sale built by private
homebuilders Polygon Northwest and Bennett-Sherman Homes and a
mixed-use building featuring rental housing, a retail store, offices
and the Holly Park Medical Clinic. Othello Station also includes
five acres of parks, capped by the 2.3 acre Central Park.
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High Point, designed by architect Mithun, was
recognized with the American Institute of Architects' "Show You're
Green" Award for incorporating sustainability factors into the
entire process - from recycling the previous development's
old-growth lumber to a natural drainage system that mimics the
drainage qualities of an open meadow.
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The porous pavement and swales along the
streets are part of High Point's natural drainage system |
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“This award program aims to showcase the
wide range of ways that architects have included green
elements in aesthetically excellent, affordable designs,"
said Gita Dev, “Show You’re Green” Awards jury chair. "Such
principles can be easily incorporated by developers to green
their housing projects and will have a lasting, positive
impact on the surrounding community.” |
High
Point
is Seattle Housing's largest redevelopment site. By the
end of the decade, High Point will have 1,600 new affordable and
market-rate units across its 120 acres. All of the homes at High
Point meet local Built Green™ three-star standards and 150 trees on
the original site have been preserved throughout the redevelopment.
High Point's natural drainage system cleans, cools, and filters stormwater runoff to Longfellow Creek, which has the highest amount
of Coho salmon in all of Seattle's creeks. Four miles of grassy and
vegetated swales enhance the watershed, also preserving the area's
water and ecosystem quality.
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