03.13.19

Filipino Community Village senior housing project set for construction | The Seattle Globalist

On Martin Luther King Jr. Way South in Othello sits a small yellow and blue building with a square red tile roof, and two flags flying — one representing the United States and the other representing the Philippines. For decades, the building has been the Filipino Community Center, the headquarters and gathering place of the Filipino Community of Seattle. But soon, three single-family houses behind the community center will give way to the Filipino Community Village of Seattle, a five-story, 95-unit, affordable senior housing building. The project is set to begin construction in August — a plan that’s been 10 years in the making.

Seattle-based architect Alex Rolluda of Rolluda Architects is designing the project. Velma Veloria, co-chair of the advisory committee of the capital campaign for the housing project, believes that Rolluda’s Filipino American background was an asset because he was aware the nuances of the community’s culture and needs.