City Council approves taller buildings for Vulcan’s planned complex
The Seattle City Council voted Monday to allow taller buildings on a block in South Lake Union to accommodate Vulcan Real Estate’s plans to build a research complex for UW Medicine there.
By Seattle Times business staff
The Seattle City Council voted Monday to allow taller buildings on a block in South Lake Union to accommodate Vulcan Real Estate’s plans to build a research complex for UW Medicine there.
Vulcan has proposed three buildings of seven and eight stories on the block, between Dexter Avenue North, Eighth Avenue North, and Republican and Mercer streets. Building heights had been limited to five or six stories.
Vulcan spokeswoman Lori Mason Curran said in an e-mail that, under the old height limit, the UW’s space needs would have precluded Vulcan from including open space in its design for the block. It is across the street from nearly 400,000 square feet of lab and research space Vulcan already has built or renovated for UW Medicine over the past six years.
The university is expected to decide by March 15 whether to proceed with the expansion, Mason Curran said.
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