At Seattle Center’s McCaw Hall next Wed, June 9 at 7:30.

http://www.seattlecenter.com/news/detail.asp?me_medianum=1613

There’s an article in today’s Daily Journal of Commerce (online access for paid subscribers only) about the Bullitt Foundation’s intent to develop the C.C. Attle’s site, which they bought a year ago, with a “uniquely Northwest building.” 

The Bullitt Foundation is looking

“not just for a piece of sculpture” but for a building that performed a series of technically rigorous functions in geology, hydrology and solar applications.

Bullitt’s CEO (and Earthday founder) Denis Hayes said he

imagines the building being a living structure with many controls and sensors. Parts of the building may even respond differently to the environment. For example, one side of the building faces a busy arterial, another a green park-like area and a third side faces a quiet street. It is “entirely possible,” he said, that each side will look and function differently.

They have selected an architect (Miller/Hull) but are still looking for project partners.  They hope to have early design drawings by late summer.

I found this presentation on the school district’s website from a couple of weeks ago, in which staff made recommendations about what to do with closed school buildings.

Interesting tidbits related to TT Minor:

• TT Minor is apparently considered a building in an area of the city “projected for growth but school age population may not be a factor”
• TT Minor is proposed to be placed in “inventory” status, with a note that it may be needed again, but probably not within the next 3 years.

So it sounds to me like the district won’t be selling off the property to developers or even leasing it for use as a community center any time soon.