Category: Press
News and press for Watershed, Equinox, and The Bend.
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Construction Bid Invitation
We are excited to begin construction on the first building within The Bend, named The Elements, in Q2 of 2025. As part of the construction process, the general contractor (Synergy) will be looking for sub-contractor and material supplier bids in the next four weeks. The selection process aims to include Duwamish Valley subcontractors and suppliers…
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Mayor Harrell Signs Legislation to Allow Construction of Workforce Housing, Artist Workspaces in Seattle’s Georgetown Neighborhood
900 units of housing and artist workspaces to be built to create new arts-centered community! “Just minutes away from our downtown core, Georgetown is a treasured and historic part of Seattle,” said Mayor Harrell. “New housing and workspaces will enhance the unique spirit of this neighborhood and create more economic opportunities for our city’s artists, entrepreneurs, and…
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Seattle Times: “How Georgetown artists are flipping the script on Seattle gentrification”
Seattle Times Highlights Watershed, The Bend, Equinox. A big thank-you to Staff Writer Margo Vansynghel for thoughtfully highlighting members from our community and to share stories of this neighborhood we love. Click here to read the piece.
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Signal Radio: We’re Live!
Thanks to Signal Architecture for creating space to amplify community story building and information sharing. Here are some recent episodes to check out from Signal Radio: 1: Concrete Superhero with Sam Farrazaino 2: Art is Action with Tamar Benzikry-Stern 4: People + Budget x Art = Experience with Ben Rankin
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Mary Ann Peters at the Frye!
Seattle artist Mary Ann Peters has first solo museum show at the Frye By Gayle Clemans. Excerpt from The Seattle Times. Imagine creating a work of art from the perspective of being under the Earth’s surface. Or through a mesh screen and a keyhole. Or out of scattered flour, draped ribbons or bundled fabric. And…
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A Thriving Arts Community!
Equinox Studios in Georgetown: A thriving arts community designed to last By Sandi Doughton, Excerpt from Pacific NW magazine THE TYPICAL TRAJECTORY for an urban arts community goes something like this: A couple of creative types set up shop in a neighborhood bypassed by development. The buildings might be run down, but rents are cheap,…
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Equiflex on KING 5 News!
Forget selfies! Hand-drawn portraits are the move at Seattle’s ‘analog photo booth’ SEATTLE — In the age of selfies and digital filters, an invention at Equinox Studios in the Georgetown neighborhood is shaking things up: an analog photo booth. “It’s giant box that looks like a camera, where the film is a person behind the camera really…
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Seattle Design Review Board Recommends Eight-Story Affordable Housing Building in Georgetown
Excerpt from The Registry. By Bekka Wiedenmeyer Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood is a rapidly evolving community previously characterized by mostly low-rise commercial and industrial structures. New and proposed developments have introduced a variety of mid-rise residential and commercial mixed-use buildings to the area, as well as industrial logistics and support infrastructure. Against this backdrop, nonprofit organization Georgetown…
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Belly-dancing Students Discover a Welcoming Community of Celebration and Constant Movement
From The Seattle Times: EGYPTIAN MUSIC BOOMS through the amplifier at 6:15 p.m. as instructor Leslie Rosen leads her belly-dance class through what she calls a shimmy warmup. She gives gentle instructions every few seconds that are barely audible above the music: “Slide to the side.” “Start to move in a circle.” “Lift drop, lift…