Healey says Vulcan plans to nominate it for city-landmark status. Today, the building is partly vacant, partly offices. The Terry Avenue Building has served as a truck factory, a cabinet warehouse and headquarters for Kelly-Goodwin, a hardwood-flooring distributor whose name still is visible on the north wall. The neighborhood was home to warehouses, commercial laundries and the people who worked in them.Ī Northern Pacific rail spur ran down Terry when the 21,000-square-foot, post-and-beam warehouse was built in 1915. The Terry Avenue Building dates back to a time when South Lake Union served as downtown's storage closet and utility room. It's a 1909 warehouse where the old Frederick & Nelson department store once may have stabled its delivery-wagon horses. The Amazon campus also will include the partly preserved and restored Van Vorst Building on the block to the north. "Little quirks and charms - they can add up to a lot." "It's a very cool thing,"Amazon spokeswoman Patty Smith says of the Terry Avenue Building's preservation. ![]() The two towers around the Terry Avenue Building would be part of a six-block, 11-building headquarters campus that Vulcan is building for the Fortune 500 online retailer. South Lake Union has a rich history that Vulcan likes to preserve and showcase when it can, says Vice President Ada Healey, because old buildings add character to the neighborhood.Īnd they appeal to some tenants, including, Healey says. Two more Vulcan-owned buildings have been designated historic landmarks by the city and must be incorporated into whatever projects the developer ultimately designs around them. The Terry Avenue Building will be the third old South Lake Union structure that Vulcan has preserved, at least in part, as it methodically transforms the long-forgotten neighborhood into an urban village of corporate headquarters, condos and cafes. The preliminary design for the office buildings, which will fill most of the block between Terry and Boren avenues and Thomas and Harrison streets, "is really a modern interpretation of the warehouse," architect Peter Krech told a city design-review board last month. The developer and the project's designer, Callison Architects, say they like it so much that they are modeling Amazon's two new towers after it. ![]() Vulcan isn't just preserving the 93-year-old Terry Avenue Building. Vulcan, the neighborhood's dominant developer, has unveiled plans to build two 11- or 12-story office towers for around a modest, two-story brick warehouse that was built the same year a guy named Boeing began working on his first biplane. In South Lake Union, where construction cranes sprout like dandelions, "in with the new" doesn't always mean out with the old. Vulcan welds old with new in South Lake Union makeover I'm sure in time, a thread will be warranted for this construction.
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