STEPHEN DAY RESUME
Professional Work: Stephen Day is an architect, land use/real estate attorney and developer based in Seattle. He is a founding member of Madrona Architecture PLLC and of the Real Property Law Group PLLC, a group of professionals working together to assist a wide variety of clients in the development of buildings and properties. These combined professions in the fields of architecture and law provide a broad range of experience regarding complex mixed-use development, development of historic landmark properties and commercial and residential properties. His clients and collaborators include individuals, development companies, development lenders, municipalities, historic tax credit investors and nonprofit developers of affordable housing. Past development involvement includes mixed use projects and National Register landmark redevelopment.
Stephen has written and lectured on historic properties redevelopment and historic properties tax credits in conferences organized by the Washington State Bar Association and the American Planning Association.
Current Affiliations:
American Institute of Architects, Seattle Chapter
Washington State Bar Association
Licensed Architect, State of Washington
Historic Resources Committee, American Institute of Architects, Seattle Chapter
Environmental and Land Use Committee, Washington State Bar Association
Board President, Northwest Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in Italy
Commissioner, King County Landmarks Commission
Recent Development Projects include: The Arctic Club Hotel, a $28,000,000 mixed use hotel project in Downtown Seattle, completed in 2008. Stephen led the ownership team in the early project analysis and acquisition of the historic landmark through a competitive request for proposals process that concluded with his team’s selection over ten competing development teams. He then worked closely with City of Seattle officials and other development team members in the feasibility analysis, design process, Landmarks approvals, historic tax credits negotiations, financing and permit issues involved in this complex historic redevelopment project.
Representative Clients and Collaborators:
500 Mercer LLC (including Lumen, a mixed use residential project in Downtown Seattle)
Central Area Development Authority (mixed use/income residential project in Seattle)
ConoverBond Development, LLC (series of historic landmark redevelopment projects)
Homestead Community Land Trust (pro bono work for this developer of affordable housing)
McCormick Holdings, LLC (riverfront residential project in Downtown Portland)
Opus Northwest, LLC (Union Station mixed use development in Seattle)
Pike Place Market Public Development Authority (transferable development rights analysis)
Prescott Homes, Inc. (series of townhome development projects in Seattle)
Temkin Properties (development of a major FedEx facility in Portland)
Safeway, Inc. (development of mixed use project in Seattle)
Su Development (development of mixed use towers in Downtown Bellevue)
Washington Capital Management, Inc. (development of mixed use historic property in Seattle)
Education:
University of Washington School of Law Seattle, Washington
Juris Doctor Degree, June 1997
Honors: Graduated cum laude Editor-in-Chief, Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, New York, New York
Master of Architecture, May 1988
Honors: William Kinne Fellow, 1988
Urban Design Teaching Fellow, 1986-1988
Architecture Teaching Fellow, 1986-1988
University of Washington School of Architecture, Seattle, Washington
Bachelor of Arts, Architecture, summa cum laude, June 1984
Honors: Recipient, Italian Studies Program Scholarship, 1983
Recipient, Naramore Scholarship, 1984
Legal Practice Summary:
Partner, Real Property Law Group, PLLC, Seattle, 2001 to present
Attorney, Tousley Brain Stephens PLLC, Seattle, 1997 to 2001
Architectural Practice/Research Summary:
Owner/Member, Madrona Architecture PLLC, Seattle
Senior Designer/Project Manager, Paul Segal Associates Architects, New York, NY
Columbia University, New York, NY (Research/Teaching Assistant to Professor Richard Plunz ("A History of Housing in New York City"; "Architecture and Planning in the Bronx 1890-1940"; "Design Attitudes in European and American Urbanism")
Steven Holl Architects, New York, NY, Designer
University of Washington, Seattle, WA / Rome, Italy