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On the Block: Stanford Hotels’ Tower Grows to 57 Stories

August 10, 2017

Four more floors of apartments and one more floor of hotel rooms will potentially be added to Fifth and Stewart Hotel & Residences in Seattle.

The hotel and apartment tower planned for 1903 Fifth Ave. had its final design review meeting last August, but the specifications have changed a bit since then.

On what is currently a surface parking lot at the northwest corner of Fifth and Stewart Street, Stanford Hotels Group of San Francisco is now proposing a 57-story tower, up from 52 floors.

That translates to four more floors of apartments and one more floor of hotel rooms. And while the hotel was previously sandwiched in the middle of the tower, it has now been moved above the apartments, closer to the hotel’s sky lobby.

Part of the above-grade garage levels will be covered with a “decorative art screen” but there will also be eight “art studios,” with kitchens and bathrooms, on floors two through five, facing Stewart and Fifth.

Stanford has revised its master use application, originally submitted last year, and is preparing an addendum to its Downtown Height and Density Environmental Impact Statement. The city has scheduled that information to be published in today’s land-use information bulletin, and comments are due by Aug. 23.

The changes follow the city council vote in April to upzone downtown and South Lake Union as part of the Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA).

The latest plans for the tower filed with the city look like this, from top to bottom:

+ A roof deck and enclosed bar on level 57.

+ A restaurant on level 56. (Stanford had previously announced those spaces would be
open to the public.)

+ Hotel lobby and restaurant on level 55; with the hotel gym and amenity spaces on level 54.

+ 228 hotel rooms on levels 53 through 42. (Floors 40 and 41 will be operations and mechanical.)

+ 264 residential units, plus amenity areas, on levels 39 through eight. The unit mix will range from studios to three-bedroom, though about half will be one-bedroom.

+ Resident amenities on levels seven and six, including a terrace.

+ Parking for 149 vehicles on levels five through two, plus four levels below grade.

+ Ground-floor retail of about 3,000 square feet, plus the hotel entrance.

The tower height will be 550 feet. Total project size, including the parking, will be about 661,000 square feet.

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