On Capitol Hill - would you buy if you knew a neighboring building would be built so close to yours?

This Wednesday there’s going to be a Capitol Hill design review board recommendation tomorrow for the proposed Pine Street Condominiums on the corner of Bellevue and Pine meeting. The 65′ foot mixed-use condo building (designed by the architects of South Lake Union’s Rollin Street) seems nice enough, but flipping through the design proposal the image below really caught my eye.

That seems like a pretty tall and hefty neighbor going up next to the Pine Street.

(And to be fair, there is more space between the actual residences of the Pine Street and the maximum envelop of the ‘future’ neighbor shown above, but - I’ve gotta say - it seems a little too close for comfort. )

Not only will any views be blocked, but when you’re so close to a neighboring residential building there are all kinds of issues with privacy, light, and noise that you have to deal with.

Honestly, it’s too bad that a nice plan couldn’t have been made for this block where maybe the two buildings could have gone up a little higher in exchange for pulling each one apart a little apart from the other and perhaps creating some kind of nice mini-park between the two.