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Unlocked Archive: Seattle PI – Newmark Tower 1931 to 1982

November 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The Internet sure can be a blessing in disguise sometimes considering how much strain one can put on their little fingers with all the clicking.  But, sometimes it pays off because you’ll stumble upon hidden little treasures like this blast from the past:

1415 2nd Avenue, Newmark Tower

SOURCE: Seattle PI - The downtown Seattle JC Penney store was open from 1931 to 1982.

The Neighbors project was published weekly in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer from 1996 to 2000. This page remains available for archival purposes only and the information it contains may be outdated. For more updated information, please visit our Webtowns section.

Ok, so maybe it’s not “locked” so you can also see more historic eye-candy from the PI by click here.

Today, it’s more like this:

Newmark Tower on 2nd Ave and Pike

Although a conversion and older building, the address has a lot of value considering it’s desirable location along with the fact you can still secure a $1M view without the $1M price point.

More about the Newmark.

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A spectacular gallery of downtown Seattle condos by Jacob F. Lucas

September 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Seattle Public Library

Seattle Public Library

I must say, we are very pleased with Jacob’s consistent variety in approximately 30 different building’s we hired him to shoot downtown.  The variety was very important to us, and we wanted someone with an artistic eye in addition to the photoshopping ability you just can’t do without the education.  Jacob had a special style which we like to say added a candy coating to downtown Seattle’s condo buildings.  There’s really no address that you can compare with another.  They all offer a different personality, lifestyle and representation of…you.  Therefore, they all needed to look good.

Tacoma Train Station

Pioneer Square Bus Tunnel

Another important factor in choosing Jacob was that as a licensed agent, there are rules preventing any listing photos with an artistic flair.  Any new listing’s primary photo added to the NWMLS (Northwest Multiple Listing Service) must be an accurate representation of either it’s exterior or view.  Since you can search all active listings on seattlesavvy.com, you’ll see the normal pictures whether you click on what’s For Sale, or what has Sold.  We hope you like the personality Jacob has helped us interpret.  All pictures are featured on the condo pages in the right sidebar of our site.  Each has a fun and informative description, active listings for sale, sold history, neighborhood map and more. Not all of our pics were from Jacob, so we just wanted to say thanks by showing off his seattlesavvy portfolio all on one page.

Please help us say thank you by checking out his Seattle photography website.  We hired him for architectural photos, but the Australian (of course he doesn’t enjoy a beer after a photo shoot) also does listings, weddings and has a pretty good collection of stock photography.

THANK YOU JACOB!

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Filed Under: 2200 Westlake, 5th and Madison, 98 Union, Architecture/Design, Avenue One, ENSO, Featured, Four Seasons, Hillclimb Court, Madison Tower, Market Place North, Millennium Tower, Mosler Lofts, Newmark Tower, One Pacific Tower, Pike & Virginia, Royal Crest, Seaboard Building, Waterfront Place, Watermark Tower Tagged With:

Target department-store chain comes to downtown

August 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The Newmark, a condo building on 2nd & Pike, will be getting a new Target department-store.  A spokeswoman for Target stated that it will be at least a year before it opens as they now start the permitting process and build out the 3-story, 103,000 square-foot commercial space.  Previously leased to Washington Mutual, Target paid $15.5 million for the empty location, and the purchase also included 250 parking stalls.  It wasn’t clear whether or not they will allow any of that parking for patrons, but the article in the Seattle Times did mention:

One Target store in Brooklyn, N.Y., has no dedicated parking. Earlier this month, the chain opened a store in New York’s East Harlem, its first in Manhattan. Target operates stores in downtown Minneapolis and the Chicago Loop, and it also is exploring sites for its first store in San Francisco.

After living downtown for several years now, it is a breath of fresh air to hear a new department store is coming to downtown!  It will certainly broaden downtown residents shopping options rather than having to either drive outside the city, or chip away at your pocket book by paying the premium price you do for shopping at the urban deli/mini-marts where anti-perspiration is $8, a smaller jug of laundry soap is close to $10 or a pack of four AAA batteries is over $6.  Those three items alone rang up at over $20 for me personally just yesterday!

More than anything, it’s just great to see something occupy a significant portion of retail/commercial space.

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