6-story "Lego" buildings are crowding the streets-scape and blocking views to the green ridges. This is progress which I readily accept. The photo looks south on 166th, at the bottom of Education Hill. The Hilton Garden Inn on the left is under construction. Across the street is the 6-story "The Triangle" rental building.
Developers are building "box-like" buildings to cut their costs. Council candidate Hank Myers recently said buildings need to be cost effective to encourage affordable housing. In the same breath he doesn't like the aesthetics of these Lego buildings.
-- Bob Yoder
Photo; Yoder
5/1/2019
I personally do not like them at all. Daylight is becoming a thing of the past in downtown Redmond and nice street scape is also lacking. Most importantly, 80% and above area median income is not affordable enough.
ReplyDeleteI'm just glad they're stopping at six stories. I would hate to see Redmond turn into a concrete jungle.
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