While I love modern buildings and design but I’m also a sucker for classic early 1900’s with brick exteriors and beautiful wood trim. With that in mind, there is one developer group that I enjoy receiving regular updates about the work they’re doing which is promoted as Live Historic. The folks at Pioneer Property Group have been renovating many of the classic and gorgeous buildings in Seattle’s older neighborhoods, such as Queen Anne, Capitol Hill, First Hill and Pioneer Square, with pretty fantastic results and putting their money where their mouth is, so to speak, putting in to play the concept of reduce, reuse, recycle.
To build a brick structure building nowadays is prohibitively expensive, which is why you don’t see that many people doing it in new construction. This developer completely renovates the interiors of these multi-story properties keeping in mind the character of the neighborhood and putting in tasteful updates. The write ups have been good. Here is one from Northwest Home & Garden.
