![]() The single-story buildings the dealership call home date to 1913, according to county records. It also includes a small 135 square-foot parking lot that exits onto 11th Ave and is a good place to see the high performance cars heading out for a run in Pike/Pine. The dealership encompasses 33,000 square feet in warehouse and garage space, a 600 square-foot office and the 2,100 square-foot showroom. The Perrina family still owns the land its 12th Ave dealership calls home, acquiring the parcels in 1999 for $3.5 million. The BMW dealership on E Pike became Pike Motorworks. ![]() The Smart family cashed in its E Pike holdings after decades on the Hill where the AVA Capitol Hill building now stands. Meanwhile, other Capitol Hill dealerships that survived into the 2010s pulled up stakes and sold off their properties. The 12th Ave showroom underwent an overhaul of its own to better show off its shiny luxury cars. ![]() The expansion from Perrina marks further investment in the neighborhood even as most other vestiges of the area’s auto row past have faded away. The 12th Ave showroom is only a few blocks away Perrina confirmed the project with CHS but said it is too early to say more about the plans at this time. Its future as a car sales showroom falls under the same “service” category of use as the automobile repair business that previously took place in the building.Ĭurrently, permit paperwork doesn’t indicate if any seismic work is planned during the construction process to build the new Alfa Romeo Seattle showroom. The two-story Talbot Building still has its original solid wood supports and beams, each measuring about one-foot in diameter.Ī 2007 survey ranked the 1920-built structure as one of Capitol Hill’s highest seismic risk buildings. FEMA regulations that require seismic rework are only triggered if the building undergoes major reconstruction or changes use. At the time, Perrina told CHS his hopes were to keep the structure’s auto row bones intact. “We want to keep the look and feel of the building how it is now,” Perrina said. In 2013, CHS reported on general manager Tino Perrina’s plans for the E Madison property after purchasing the 15,000 square-foot garage for $2.25 million.Įarlier that year, CHS wrote about the shuttering of Callahan’s Auto as ownership balked at the cost of seismically updating the building. The project will be a spinoff from the nearby 12th/Union/Madison Ferrari and Maserati of Seattle showroom.
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