Standard plan profileA1
Corner townhomes
6 fee-simple homes near transit, one house replaced
A low-value house on a transit-corner lot is replaced with six fee-simple townhomes — the corner's double frontage gives each home its own street entrance.
Urban Acupuncture modeled standard plan
Repeatable program, parcel screening, schematic placement, and economics model — not City-pre-approved construction drawings.
- Homes
- 6
- Building type
- Six three-story fee-simple townhomes
- Existing house
- Replace
- Typical new footprint
- 58.5 × 39 ft
- New-building height
- 3 stories
- New-home bedrooms
- 3 bedrooms
Representative site plan
New: 6 homes in a 39×59 ft pack. Drawn on a typical lot — every real lot differs, so this is illustrative, not a site-specific layout.
The program
6 homes — 6 market townhomes in a 58.5x39 corner row.
+5 net new homes per lot (market-rate).
Workbook-baseline economics
If built and sold at today's modeled prices, this project could return $926K–$968K in gross modeled owner value before mortgage payoff and taxes.
- Gross modeled owner value
- $926K–$968K
- All-in project cost
- $3.34M
- Does it pencil?
- Pencils under modeled stress
- What to check first
- Parcel-specific inputs
Across conservative and base selling-cost cases, before mortgage payoff and taxes.
$557K per home
Profit remains positive at market price −10% with conservative selling costs.
Representative workbook baseline — not adjusted for a specific parcel.
Illustrative workbook baseline — a real packet adjusts these with the parcel's own assessor, market, and rent data.
Where it fits
Neighborhood-residential corner lots inside a quarter-mile major-transit walkshed, with a low-value (teardown-candidate) house and room for six townhomes. Transit unlocks six homes by right, so no affordability covenant is required — the catalog's strongest-margin product.
What must be true
- A neighborhood-residential corner lot inside the major-transit walkshed
- Enough usable width and depth for two townhome rows
- The existing house is a realistic redevelopment candidate
Verify before relying on it
- Surveyed corner/frontage geometry and access
- Trees, critical areas, utilities, and title constraints
- Local new-townhome sale prices and demolition cost
Check Corner townhomes at a Seattle address
Choose a parcel to open this exact model in the feasibility packet. We will test its screening match, place the program schematically, and adjust the economics with parcel data.
If the plan does not pass this parcel's screening, the packet will say so and offer other paths.
Funding and programs that may apply
Programs that may pair with this plan
Matched from plan facts only. Parcel geography, income, utility territory, and owner facts can change the final list.
Home Improvement Property Tax Exemption
King County Assessor / RCW 84.36.400
Temporary property-tax exemption on qualifying added improvement value.
Exempts added value up to 30% of original structure value
Washington HEAR Home Electrification Rebates
Washington Department of Commerce / local HEAR administrators
Point-of-sale rebates for heat pumps, heat-pump water heaters, electrical panels, and related electrification work.
Up to $14,000 / household