Rising up over 23rd Avenue and Spring Street in the Central District is construction on Africatown Plaza, one of Seattle’s newest affordable housing developments.
Unlike many of the cookie cutter five-over-one boxes you see throughout the city, the building is unique. Wrapped in a curved facade of weathered steel, its rust-hued aesthetic echoes the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Its unconventional look is by design.
Everything about the building is due to community-centered, intentional design, and that includes the people who are building it.
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