St. Mark's gets boost from Wall Street parish for affordable housing project

Trinity Church Wall Street has awarded a $150,000 grant to St. Mark's Cathedral to advance plans to redevelop the former St. Nicholas School, a city of Seattle landmark just north of the cathedral that's perched prominently atop Capitol Hill.

St. Mark’s has been working since early 2023 to define the potential and feasibility of the project, and is exploring two options: either entirely new construction or — the preferred option — converting and expanding the historic 1926 part of the St. Nicholas School together with a new addition to create 119 housing units, from studios to three-bedrooms.

This grant, announced May 7, is the second from Trinity Church Wall Street, a 325-year-old Episcopal parish in New York City. The initial grant was for $100,000, which supplemented a $35,000 grant from Enterprise Community Partners.

The nearly 1,300-member cathedral has retained affordable housing consultant Tory Laughlin Taylor, atelierjones for site planning and design schemes, Geotech Consultants Inc., and Rafn Co. for cost estimating. Terrane has done survey work, St. Mark's said.

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