Re: “Seattle Mayor Harrell pushes conversions of empty places of work to housing” [March 14, Local News]:
Mayor Bruce Harrell is supporting an thought that might change life within the metropolis of Seattle. Conversion of workplace house to residing house could be key in reviving the town and making it safer.
The secret’s to chop prices by utilizing the workplace house mainly as it’s. Don’t battle the design! That’s the place it will get costly. A “group residing” setup would supply lower-cost rental items.
This may contain shared bogs, leaving bogs within the place the place they’re and including showers adjoining to that space. Massive workplace areas might then be divided by having common partitions and hallways put in.
Within the curiosity of protecting prices down and protecting the undertaking environment friendly, there could be neighborhood kitchen house, washer/dryer house and probably a big “house workplace” house for enterprise use.
To maintain widespread areas neat, the rental pricing would come with paying a 24-hour workers for the cleansing of shared areas. This might additionally apply towards paying safety personnel.
How about some kind of contest the place architects may very well be rewarded for designs?
Cynthia Lachance, Renton
