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June 25, 2008

A slender skyscraper tops out

Photo by Matt Todd/ courtesy of Opus Northwest [enlarge]

Opus Northwest has reached the top of its Fifteen Twenty-One Second Avenue condo tower near Pike Place Market. The developer claims the project is the first to be built under the city’s new downtown zoning code, which encourages development of taller and more slender high-rises closer to the urban core.

The 38-story building will contain 143 penthouse-style condos when it is finished in April of 2009. Units will range in size from 1,660 square feet to 2,860 square feet, with prices starting at $1 million. All but five have been presold.

Condos will have indoor-outdoor glass rooms. The window system will create a solarium when the windows are closed.

Opus hopes to achieve LEED silver with measures such as diverting 75 percent of construction waste from landfills, using recycled materials for 5 percent of the building.

The project team includes: Opus NWR Development, developer; William Justen, project conception; Blaine Weber of Weber Thompson, design architect; Opus Architects & Engineers, architect of record; Susan Marinello Interiors, interior design; Opus NW Contractors, construction manager; Realogics, marketing; and Windermere OnSITE, condo listing agent.




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