Talaris Hospitality Services Now Closed
The Talaris site owners have shut down operations of Columbia Hospitality management, which offered conferences, banquets, and overnight rooms in its unique Northwest setting. Quadrant Homes, the current applicant, is proposing to redevelop the parcel into 67 home sites.
They continue to file reports required by the Seattle Department of Constructions and Inspections for a Master Use Permit. On September 9, the Landmarks Preservation Board determined that their Preliminary Certificate of Approval Application was complete as required by the Seattle Municipal Code 25.12.680.B.
However, landscaping and tree removal was not addressed, and that information will need to be provided before further consideration of their development is evaluated by the Seattle Landmarks Preservation Board.
As previously reported, the entire Talaris campus (the seven existing buildings and the entire landscape) was designated as a landmarked property by the City of Seattle’s Landmark Preservation Board in November 2013. With its current set of proposals, two landmarked buildings would be demolished entirely to accommodate the new structures, and over 52 percent of the site would be altered.
With the recent deaths of two of the four original architects, Richard Haag (August 2018) and Bill Bain (June 2019), preservation of the site has become more significant as a legacy of their collaborative work together.
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