![]() ![]() The main structure comprises a 57,000-square-foot tipping and transfer floor, an administrative block, and a lower level for compacting and collection. Instead of having to advocate for community-sensitive urban design, “we were able to spend that energy innovating and making a better project.”īermed into a sloping 5½-acre site between the lake’s increasingly recreational waterfront to the south, residential development to the north and east, and a mix of uses to the west, the facility consists of two low-slung buildings on either side of a weigh-scale yard. “These constraints actually helped us,” says Anne Schopf, a partner at Mahlum, architect for the LEED Gold–certified project. Conditions of the community’s acceptance required the design to provide significant public amenities and to address community priorities, including sustainability, security, and aesthetics. ![]() For Wallingford-Fremont, a new transfer station is an improvement.Ĭompared to the smaller, late 1960s pit facility it replaces, the new flat-floor NTS operates more safely and efficiently. Unless, that is, the neighborhood grew up on the edge of an industrial zone where a transfer station already existed, as did Seattle’s Wallingford and Fremont sections-two neighborhoods that overlook active Lake Union and its ship canal, with Seattle’s skyline beyond, and abut the North Transfer Station (NTS). Calling it a solid waste transfer station implies a certain seriousness of purpose, even respectability, but there’s no getting away from the fact that this is where garbage trucks dump their loads, self-haulers line up to chuck old mattresses and yard waste, and semis growl in to shuttle the stuff away.Ĭhances of getting locals to accept a new waste transfer facility in their backyard? Slim to none. ![]() Not many land uses are as unwelcome near an urban residential neighborhood as a dump. ![]()
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