High-rise commercial buildings

Sub Markets

Property Sectors

Topics

Seattle & Northwest CRE News In Your Inbox.

Sign up for Connect emails to stay informed with CRE stories that are 150 words or less.

New call-to-action
Seattle & Northwest  + Apartments  | 

Gemdale USA’s Cloud Tower Receives Design Approval in Seattle’s South Lake Union

Gemdale USA Corporation received unanimous approval from Seattle’s Design Review Board for 222 Dexter, a 31-story, 324-unit apartment tower in the South Lake Union neighborhood. The Shanghai-based developer bought the site at Thomas Street last summer for a reported $25.6 million. The proposed mixed-use project is slated to rise 290 feet, and includes 126 parking stalls and roughly 2,480 square feet of street level retail.

Hewitt Architecture’s podium and tower design concept for “Cloud Tower” is rooted in an idea that the tower operates at two scales and with two expressions. It responds to the streetscape at a human scale, while connecting with a larger, more distant context. That clear vision found favor with the board, as did the thoughtful use and detailing of enduring materials.

Once building permits are secured, the developer is targeting a groundbreaking in early 2021. The development marks Gemdale USA’s first project in the Seattle market.

For comments, questions or concerns, please contact Dennis Kaiser

Connect

Inside The Story

Connect With Gemdale USAConnect With Hewitt

About Dennis Kaiser

Dennis Kaiser is Vice President of Public Relations and Communications for Connect Creative. Dennis is a communications leader with more than 40 years of experience including as a journalist and in corporate and agency marketing communications roles. He is responsible for Connect Creative’s agency client services and is involved in a range of initiatives ranging from public relations and content strategy, communications and message development, copywriting, media relations, social media and content marketing services. Prior to joining Connect Media in 2015, his most recent corporate communications roles involved leading a regional public relations effort across Southern California for CBRE, playing a key marketing role on JLL’s national retail team, and directing the global public relations effort at ValleyCrest (BrightView), the nation’s largest commercial landscape services company. He has worked on marketing communications assignments for such CRE companies as Blackstone/Equity Office, Carlyle, Caruso, Disney Resorts, GE Capital, Irvine Company, Hines, Howard Hughes Corp., Jeffries, Lennar, MGM, Marcus & Millichap, Prologis, Raleigh Studios, Simon, Starwood, Trammell Crow Company, Transamerica, UBS and Wynn Resorts. Dennis has also worked on communications and launch strategies for a number of consumer electronic, media and tech brands including SlingMedia, Channel Master, Deluxe Media Entertainment, BeIn Sports, EchoStar and Sprint. Dennis’s agency background included firms such as Off Madison Ave., Idea Hall and Macy + Associates. He has earned an outstanding reputation with organization leaders as a trusted advisor, strategic program implementer, consensus builder and exceptional collaborator. Dennis has developed and managed national communications programs for Fortune 500 companies to start-ups, both public and private. He’s successfully worked with journalists across the globe representing clients involved in major-breaking news stories, product launches, media tours, and company news announcements. Dennis has been involved in a host of charitable and community organizations including the American Cancer Society, Easter Seals, Boy Scouts, Chrysalis Foundation, Freedom For Life, HOLA, L.A.’s BEST, Reach Out and Read, Super Bowl Host Committee, and the Thunderbirds Charities.

  • ◦Development
New call-to-action
New call-to-action
New call-to-action