Going modular: Rents start at just $795 for these new Seattle apartments
A flatbed truck hauling micro apartments on Monday rolled in from Boise, Idaho to Seattle, where a big crane was waiting to lift the approximately 40,000-pound modular unit to the top of a four-story building.
More trucks were scheduled to arrive by the end of the day, when construction workers expected to place a total of 20 apartments at the Cubix North Park project on North 109th Street, just off of Aurora Avenue.
When the 108-unit building opens in December, the approximately 220-square-foot apartments will rent starting at $795 a month, or about 50 percent less than what new studio apartments are renting for in the city.
There's no one silver bullet to the Puget Sound region's affordable-housing crisis, said Daniel Stoner, owner and president of Parkstone Properties, the Seattle company that's developing Cubix North Park, but he thinks micro apartments are one solution. If the apartments can be built faster and for less money using the modular method, it brings down the the cost of housing.
Modular construction – where housing units are built offsite in factories – is becoming more popular in the Northwest and elsewhere. Initially, developers turned to modular as a means to save time. Cubix North Park, for instance, will take about nine months to build versus up to 15 months using traditional onsite building techniques.
But as labor and material costs have risen in Seattle, Stoner said modular will help cuts costs, too.
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