Development is at a torrid pace

Selected properties in development near or on Northwest Market Street 1. 5300 24th Avenue Northwest: A six-story hotel with 170 units, a pool and underground parking, next to the site of the former Yankee Grill. 2. 5600 24th Avenue Northwest: A five-story, 90 condominium development, NOMA, with ground-floor retail and parking for 170 inside building. 3. 5615 24th Avenue Northwest: A five-story building, the Metropole, with 30 condominiums above a ground-floor retail and commercial space. 4. 5700 24th Avenue Northwest: An eight-story building with 268 apartments and underground parking for 400 vehicles over a rebuilt QFC, next to the Ballard Commons. 5. 5711 24th Avenue Northwest: A 94-unit residential building with retail and 120 below ground parking stalls on the site of the old Ballard Library. 6. 5803 24th Avenue Northwest: A six-story building with 31 apartments. 7. 2034 Northwest 56th Street (next to the new Ballard Library): A multi-story residential complex with 160 units, 4,000 square feet of retail space and underground parking for 220 vehicles. 8. 1753 Northwest 56th Street: A six-story building with 35 apartments over parking and commercial and / or retail space. 9. 5440 Leary Avenue Northwest: A six-story development, Canal Station, being built in two phases, which will eventually include 278 condominiums and 12,000 square feet of commercial space with parking for 500 vehicles. 10. 5433 Leary Avenue Northwest: A five-story, 146 unit senior-living development, the Ballard Landmark Inn, with 9,000 square feet of retail space and parking for 105 vehicles. 11. 1536 Northwest Market Street: An eight-story building with 79 condominiums and 6,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space and on-site parking. 12. 1545 Northwest Market: One eight-story and one six-story building housing 250 apartments and ten live-work units, 17,000 square feet of retail space at ground level and parking for 343 below ground. 13. 1426 Northwest Market Street: Two five-story residential towers containing 36 apartments above parking for 45 vehicles and 1300 square feet of retail space.

Tue, 10/10/2006

A recently announced Ballard development is part of the transformation of Northwest Market Street from sleepy, hinterland high street into an urban canyon on par with Belltown.

Trammell Crow, an international real estate firm, recently announced its intention to build an eight story apartment complex on Market Street at 17th Avenue Northwest which will sit across from another eight story development now under construction.

Michael Derr, with Trammell Crow Residential, described the development during a recent Ballard District Council meeting, and said a second, six story building facing Northwest 54th Street was also part of a project that would create some 250 apartments and 10 live-work units, along with 17,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space, a private courtyard and more than 300 underground parking stalls.

Derr said the buildings, which will present a concrete fa

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