High Point

Format
Brief

City
Seattle

State/Province
WA

Country
USA

Metro Area
Seattle

Project Type
Mixed Residential

Location Type
Inner Suburban

Land Uses
Civic Uses
Medical
Multifamily Rental Housing
Open space
Recreation
Retail
Single-Family For-Sale Housing

Keywords
Affordable housing
Community development
Healthy place features
Mixed-income housing
Neighborhood revitalization
New urbanist design
Sustainable development
ULI Awards for Excellence 2007 Winner

Site Size
120 acres
acres hectares

Date Started
2003

Date Opened
2006

A brief is a short version of a case study.

Two purposes—the social vision of the federal HOPE VI housing program and the livability principles of new urbanist design—are coming together in the High Point development. High Point, a 120-acre (49 ha) residential neighborhood with a mix of incomes, ethnicities, and household structures, invites social interaction and fosters community identity. It replaces a post–World War II public housing project of 716 units with an environmentally conscious community of 1,600 new housing units, 45 percent of which are affordable and low-income rentals being constructed by the housing authority, and 55 percent of which are for-sale market-rate units or rental housing for seniors being built by for-profit and nonprofit developers.

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Owner/Master Planner
Seattle Housing Authority
Seattle, WA

Architect/Planner
Mithun
Seattle, WA

Associate Architect
Streeter and Associates
Seattle, WA

Landscape Architects
SvR Design
Seattle, WA

Nakano Associates
Seattle, WA

Principal Author(s)
Julie Stern

ULI Awards for Excellence 2007 Winner