SEATTLE projects
Duwamish Valley
The Georgetown neighborhood has long served the city as a hub for small manufacturing and affordable in-city housing. An increasing number of artists and artisans have established a foothold there; meanwhile, the housing stock is no longer affordable to the makers who work here. In 2019 Conlin Columbia co-founded Watershed Community Development, a community-based nonprofit which owns Equinox Studios and is developing The Bend, a vertical village of art, permanently affordable housing, and community services. Conlin Columbia, through its affiliate Community Development Partners, serves as the contract master developer for this $550 million project.
Phinney Ridge
The north end is rich in community services such as libraries, transit, schools, and parks, but poor in affordable housing. Conlin Columbia is bringing together an experienced affordable housing developer, a congregation with deep neighborhood roots, and a community services organization to develop more than 100 affordable apartments as well as a new home for the church.
Columbia City
The “most ethnically diverse zip code in the country” is losing its diversity due to economic pressures, particularly a sharp drop in housing affordability. In partnership with three non-profit organizations, Conlin Columbia will clean up and redevelop a brownfield site adjacent to downtown Columbia City. Jazz Night School, a neighborhood cultural organization which provides music education to adults, and LEMS, a Black-owned bookstore and community center which already occupies the site, will each own their own street-level spaces, debt-free. Above them, more than 100 new affordable apartments will be owned and operated by Southeast Effective Development.