EVERETT – A 4.5-acre lot in the Delta neighborhood could become home to a new 260-unit apartment building for senior citizens.
The $19.5 million project is being well received by neighbors, who could see the massive new apartment building go up on E. Marine View Drive by late summer 2005.
If Everett’s hearing examiner approves the project, construction could begin by August, said architect Charles Morgan, whose firm, Charles Morgan and Associates, is designing the building.
Called Vintage at Everett, it would consist of about 260 one- and two-bedroom apartments at the northeast corner of 11th Street and E. Marine View Drive.
The building would virtually be a contained community, with surface and underground parking, an indoor swimming pool, a spa, two TV theaters, exercise rooms, social rooms, a library and a tenant-run minimart.
“What it’s trying to be is more or less self-contained,” Morgan said.
About 60 neighbors gathered earlier this year to hear about the project and vote on it, said Delta Neighborhood Association chairman Tim Dean.
Only one person at the meeting voted against the project.
“We know that something is eventually going to go there,” Dean said. “When we discovered how beautiful the place is going to be, how well it’s going to be built and that it’s going to be 100 percent senior people, we thought, ‘What better could we ask for?’ “
Vintage at Everett is the second local project for Canddle Development of Reno, Nev. Holly Village, a senior apartment complex in south Everett, is a smaller version of what north Everett will see.
Exxel Pacific of Bellingham will construct the apartment building.
Tenants must be 55 or older. The apartments will not be low-income, but will be is an income limit for residents.
Similar apartment communities are going up in Mount Vernon, Arlington and Bremerton.
“There’s a big demand,” Morgan said. “The senior population is growing so fast that developers can’t keep up.”
To illustrate, Morgan said the Holly Village apartments in south Everett filled immediately after opening and now has a long waiting list.
Reporter Jennifer Warnick: 425-339-3429 or jwarnick@heraldnet.com.
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