FOLLOWUP: New plan for West Seattle’s most visible vacant house

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3804 twenty third SW is the most-visible vacant home in West Seattle – perched all by itself subsequent to the Delridge on-ramp to the eastbound West Seattle Bridge. The primary time we talked about it on WSB was in 2009, when it was a cease on a community-organized tour of downside properties in North Delridge, with metropolis councilmembers and division heads in attendance. It was speculated on the time that this home had already been vacant for not less than 20 years. Over the following 14 years, we’ve talked about the home a number of occasions. It was auctioned in 2014 to cowl unpaid taxes; it modified arms once more in 2017 and 2018. In 2017, it had an early-stage proposal for eight townhouses, however in 2019, that plan stalled, and the location has remained comparatively unchanged, except for some retaining-wall work. Now a tip led us to find there’s a brand new plan for the location – this time, a plan to transform the long-vacant home and add a second story. Meantime, the location stays within the metropolis’s vacant constructing monitoring program; metropolis information present its most up-to-date inspection on the finish of March discovered violations similar to the home not being secured in opposition to climate and trespassers. (You may recall that an individual was discovered useless on the location final 12 months.)