Project Types

The project has 42 units set aside for homeless households and 12 units designated for families with special needs. The ground floor of the building will contain 4,000 square feet of space that will house support services. The YWCA’s counseling and housing programs will occupy this space. Residents will have access to a full range of programming provided by the YWCA in the adjacent building, including legal services, therapeutic children’s programming, youth services and support groups.

Housing Hope and HopeWorks Social Enterprises are developing the innovative HopeWorks Station II project within the Everett Station District neighborhood near downtown Everett, at the 3300 block of Broadway in Everett. This new Transit Oriented development will provide commercial space designed for future social enterprise business growth as well as affordable housing dedicated to homeless and very low income households seeking employment training, jobs and access to career pathways.

The residential portion of the project will consist of 65 apartments in studios, one bedrooms, and two bedrooms. The ground floor and mezzanine will be comprised of space devoted to social enterprises including a culinary food service program called FoodWorks, a retail training center with a food store and bakery, a culinary training facility, a youth career office and space for volunteers and other partnerships.

HopeWorks Station will provide the neighborhood and the city with a Workforce Development Center aligned with affordable housing and designed to deliver career pathways for homeless and at‐risk populations. This will put participants on pathways out of poverty and toward income progression.

The site for the Pike Place Market MarketFront project on Western Avenue was long used as a surface parking lot. This final piece in the Pike Place Market Urban Renewal Plan of 1974 will develop two new low-rise buildings providing 300+ stalls of public parking; 16,000 SF of retail space; 40 units of low-income senior housing; and expanded facilities for the Market’s social service agencies. The project will also provide over 30,000 SF of public plaza space connecting the Market to the new Seattle Waterfront with a pedestrian hill-climb and exciting new vistas of Elliot Bay and the Olympics. At the ground level of the residential building, just over 2,000 SF of space fronting Western Avenue will be used to expand the market’s social services. As part of a prominent multi-faceted civic development located in a historic district, this project requires unique collaboration with multiple other interests in order to successfully provide affordable and sustainable housing in the complex context of the Pike Place Market.

Plaza Roberto Maestas is a community-inspired transit oriented development project in the heart of the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle, directly adjacent to the Beacon Hill Light Rail Station and the El Centro de la Raza schoolhouse building. Based on the North Beacon Hill Neighborhood Plan, the project is oriented around a central plaza that will provide generous and safe outdoor space for both residents and the surrounding neighborhood. Plaza Roberto Maestas will predominantly serve families with majority two- and three-bedroom apartments. On the ground floors of the new community will be a 7-classroom expansion of El Centro's nationally accredited Jose Marti Child Development Center, 3,200 square feet of neighborhood retail/restaurant space, and a 6,000 square foot multicultural community center that will have a commercial kitchen for event and community use. Above the community center in the east building will be 4,000 square feet of office space. Plaza Roberto Maestas achieves the regional vision of "equitable development" at an urban village transit station while building the long-term capacity of El Centro de la Raza through strategic asset building and real estate development.

Awards: AIA/HUD Secretary’s Housing and Community Design Award for Creating Community Connections, 2017; Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition’s Charles L. Edson Tax Credit Excellence Awards: Honorable Mention in the Metropolitan/Urban category, 2017; Puget Sound Regional Council’s Vision 2040 Award; PCBC’s Golden Nugget Awards Award for Merit in Affordable Housing, 2017; Futurewise Livable Community Award for Equity & Environment, 2013; PSRC Vision 2040.

Situated in the rapidly growing South Lake Union neighborhood of Seattle, Compass on Dexter provides a large proportion of 2- and 3- bedroom units, together with supportive services and resident management staff, primarily for families who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. The ground level includes service-related office space, tenant common space, and Compass Housing Alliance offices. At the second floor, a large east-facing courtyard with play equipment provides shared open space for residents. Compass on Dexter secured very aggressive financial proposals from multiple investors, enabling Compass and Beacon to negotiate a project that preserves public resources. By leveraging such beneficial private financing, the project was able to return money to funders while achieving all project goals of the client.