Vulcan, Milliken Considering Hotel Instead of Office at 2200 Westlake

SEATTLE-Instead of scaling back a $200-million mixed-use development in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood, Vulcan Inc. and Milliken Development Co. are considering a high-end boutique hotel tower where an office tower was to go.

Originally, the 2.5-acre site at the intersection of Denny Way and Westlake Avenue North have a 238,000-sf office tower and two residential towers containing 237 luxury condominiums encircling 90,000 sf of retail space anchored by a 48,000-sf QFC grocery store. That was December 2000, however, when the office market was still healthy.

Under the proposed redesign, Don Milliken tells GlobeSt.com say the project would look much the same, except a skinnier hotel tower would replace the planned office tower and part of one condo tower that stuck out over a portion of the two-level retail entrance to the property would become 30,000 sf of office space–the only office space now planned for the project. As well, where the office tower stuck out over the other side of the retail entrance to the development, a health club and spa would be added.