Black Angus /125th Street Grill site will become affordable housing
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
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| From Google Earth - the 125th St Grill before demolition. |
The property where the 125th Street Grill and Black Angus Motor Inn once stood at 12241-12245 Aurora Ave N, Seattle will become affordable housing.
There will be 2 phases:
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| Groundbreaking for the new housing complex was done in July, 2025. Drone photo by David Carlos, taken 9-23-25. Looking southwest. |
Phase 1: The Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI) is first building a 7-story, 90-unit affordable housing complex on the site for homeless and low-income seniors.
Phase 2: 130 units for workforce housing with room for families, commercial space. (Workforce housing is for middle-income workers who don't qualify for low-income housing but can't afford market-rate housing.)
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The 125th St Grill and Black Angus Motor Inn are already demolished. Drone photo by David Carlos, taken 9-23-25. Looking east. |
The construction company is Runberg Architecture Group.
Per Runberg's website: "When completed, the two phases combined will create a vibrant, mixed-age community in an underutilized corner of a rapidly developing neighborhood in north Seattle."
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| This is an early conceptual rendering of the Phase 1 building Courtesy www.lihihousing.org |
The City of Seattle Office of Housing is awarding $9 million for the project. per the LIHI Housing website:
"Additional funding for the project includes $5 million from the state Housing Trust Fund and 9% tax credits from Washington State Housing Finance Commission. LIHI received a HUD 202 Senior Housing award that provides rental assistance for 90 units.
"This will ensure long term affordability as seniors will pay 30% of their income for rent. Senator Murray included $3 million in the HUD budget."
There is no published completion date for Phase 1. There is no published start date for Phase 2.
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3 comments:
A new place for homeless to do drugs paid for by you, the taxpayer. We need more treatment facilities and mental health facilities. You can put an unstable schizophrenic person in a house for a day but odds are they won’t be there in a week. These people need inpatient psychiatric treatment. When will this state understand you can’t force unstable people into housing and like Field of Dreams said “if you build it, they will come”. We are asking for more and more homeless to flock to the area. Not good.
90 units of senior housing. Why would you build senior housing there? I'm a senior and I never go south of 145th anymore. I used to visit that Black Angus for lunch regularly but the place is overrun by baddies now. It's unsafe for seniors.
The 125th St. Grill was a gem in our community. I'm sad that it's gone. These new tenements will be a blight.
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