Second story additions in Green Lake

Walk the blocks around Green Lake and you can read the neighborhood's history in its rooflines: house after house that started life as a modest one-story or story-and-a-half and has since been remodeled and enlarged, very often by adding another floor. Growing in place is simply what Green Lake homes do — because nobody who has a house near the lake, in Tangletown, or on a quiet Meridian street wants to give up that location to get a fourth bedroom.

The math behind that tradition is straightforward. The lot is the scarce thing here, not the house, and Seattle's recent citywide rezoning is only making established close-in neighborhoods more valuable. A second story doubles the useful size of a Green Lake house without touching the yard or the trees — a point that matters more than it used to, since Seattle's tree protection ordinance now regulates removals when you expand a footprint outward. Building up inside the existing footprint is the low-friction path to more house.

It is also the engineered path. Seattle's seismic reality — a crustal fault under the city, a subduction zone off the coast — means a new upper floor is designed with real lateral engineering: shear walls, holdowns, and a verified load path into a foundation that an engineer has actually assessed, which matters in housing stock this old. Pacific Pro Group runs design, engineering, and the SDCI permit as one process, then builds with the new level framed and weatherproofed above your existing roof before the old roof comes out — so the house stays dry through Seattle's long wet season and your family stays in it.

Neighborhoods we serve in Green Lake

ZIP codes served: 98103 · 98115