A year ago Seattle builder Sloan Ritchie listed for sale the state's largest "passive house" development, an eight-story project in Seattle's Central Area. He didn't have the financial bandwidth to build the 107-unit project and continue loading up his company's development pipeline of highly energy-efficient projects.
Sloan listed the project, his largest to date, but it came off the market when some notable players emerged — HAL Real Estate and brothers Tim and Peter Wolff — ready to finance the project, which is rising at 1419 24th Ave. The work is underway despite the Teamsters' strike against concrete suppliers, which has essentially ground construction to a halt.