Othello Station/ Holly Park, Seattle WA
Designed as WRT/Solomon ETC, 1999-2006
John Ellis Urban Designer with Daniel Solomon, Anne Torney, Laura Hinde.
Othello Station funded by the HUD HOPE VI programme, replaced distressed public housing from the 1940’s with a new dense neighborhood of mixed uses for residents of diverse incomes. The master plan extends the existing street grid into the 36-acre site and is organized around a crescent shaped central park. The approximately 400 units vary in type and density; from rowhouses along the interior of the site to stacked flats around the perimeter.
Daniel Solomon Design Partners prepared the master plan and were architects for the first 219 low-rental units and the first mixed-income housing over retail building.
The plan is organized around a new crescent shaped park and a new street grid that integrates into the surrounding urban fabric. A range of housing types responding to the local Northwestern architectural vernacular.
Land-Use plan showing how the new development is integrated into the surrounding neighborhood.
Narrow two-way streets.
New residents.
The signpost in the Park that celebrates the diverse origins of many of the residents.
Pairs of walk-up townhouses over flats overlook the Central Park.