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ULI Northwest: Emerging Trends: REvitalization of Yesler Terrace Walking Tour
Pricing
| Standard Pricing Until October 26 | Members | Non-Members |
|---|---|---|
| All Types | $25.00 | $40.00 |
We kick off our Emerging Trends programming with an exclusive tour of the Yesler Terrace neighborhood on Tuesday, October 26.
Emerging Trends: REvitalization of Yesler Terrace
Back by popular demand – a follow-up to ULI’s successful Yesler Terrace walking tour in 2018.
Join the ULI Northwest Thriving Communities Committee for a walk-and-talk review of how this fast-changing neighborhood has evolved since our last tour. You’ll quickly see why Yesler Terrace is redevelopment done right.
Here’s why you should know what’s going on with Yesler Terrace – Perched between some of Seattle’s fastest-gentrifying neighborhoods of Chinatown/I-District, Central District and First Hill, the 30-acre mixed-use, mixed-income community of Yesler Terrace demonstrates:
- A socially, racially, and economically-sensitive redevelopment – rooted in community-engagement starting seven years before a shovel hit the ground
- How to infill low-income housing inventory – from 561 low-income homes originally up to 2,000 affordable and 4,000 market-rate homes planned
- Public-Private partnership at its best - with Seattle Housing Authority at the helm in partnership with Paul Allen’s Vulcan
Agenda
3 PM | Building Tours
Red Cedar Apartments
Speakers: Terry Galiney, Seattle Housing Authority and Joel Rohrs, Andersen Construction
Park/Community Center
Speakers: Terry Galiney, Seattle Housing Authority
Hinoki
Speakers: Terry (SHA), Joel Rohrs and Scott Shaw, Hewitt
Cypress
Speakers: Charlie Laboda, Vulcan and Constanza Marcheselli, Runberg
4:30 PM | Reception and Informal Q&A at Cypress rooftop
Yesler Terrace History
Originally founded in the 1940’s Yesler Terrace was the country's first racially integrated public housing project; an antidote to highly-criticized urban housing "projects" on the East Coast. In 2006, faced with failing infrastructure, public safety issues, and the deterioration of existing housing, SHA began consultation and in 2013 redevelopment works began. A significant network of new public spaces, designed to knit this transit-oriented neighborhood into its established urban context, served as the ultimate catalyst for public and private development opportunities, creating spaces for new and former residents to call home.