Geeking Out Inside Seattle’s First High-Tech High-Rise, NEXUS

As seen in Seat­tle Refined.

It’s no secret that Seat­tle is one of the country’s top tech cities and indeed, inno­va­tors like Ama­zon and Microsoft call Seat­tle home. Oth­ers are fol­low­ing. With the con­struc­tion in the down­town Seattle’s bur­geon­ing East Vil­lage, out city will soon be home to one of the world’s first high-tech, high-ris­es.

Seat­tle Refined got a behind-the-sce­nes look at the future of con­do liv­ing. Move over Jetson’s – Tech City USA has set a new bench­mark:

Total Xen:

The Xen app by Sirqul will serve as a dig­i­tal concierge for NEXUS res­i­dents, allow­ing them to inter­act with oth­er res­i­dents and eas­i­ly request ser­vices from near­by ven­dors. It will also house a leader­board fea­tur­ing the eco-score of res­i­dents using the least amount of ener­gy. Res­i­dents will be able to set alerts so they know if they’re sur­pass­ing their ide­al ener­gy expen­di­ture while the gam­if­ca­tion of the build­ing encour­ages res­i­dents to lead by exam­ple, and pick up rewards along the way.

The Xen app also inte­grates with prod­ucts from Seat­tle-based smart liv­ing com­pa­ny Wipli­ance.

Appli­ance Perks

Through Wipli­ance and the XEN app, res­i­dents can con­trol their win­dow shades, light­ing, audio / video sys­tems and secu­ri­ty sys­tems from their smart phones. The­se capa­bil­i­ties make it easy to help the babysit­ter get the TV work­ing or let the dog walk­er in with­out play­ing tele­phone tag or acci­dent­ly set­ting off an alarm.

Ulti­mate­ly, the ser­vices and inte­gra­tions are designed to make life con­ve­nient, sim­ple and wor­ry-free for res­i­dents of NEXUS.

Time Trav­el

Okay – The NEXUS build­ing doesn’t actu­al­ly offer res­i­dents time-trav­el, but it offers some­thing pret­ty close: using HoloLens tech­nol­o­gy imple­ment­ed by Z-Axon, those inter­est­ed in NEXUS con­dos and the devel­op­ment of the East Vil­lage can use a vir­tu­al real­i­ty head­set to explore what the neigh­bor­hood will look like when the build­ing is com­plete.

You, too can gaze into the future: just stop by the NEXUS sales cen­ter at 2609 First Ave. to see a mod­el of the build­ing, walk through a full-scale mod­el and get a glimpse at what the East Vil­lage will look like by 2020.

NEXUS is offer­ing pre-sale oppor­tu­ni­ties so that future home­own­ers can lock in cur­rent prices with a nom­i­nal deposit. It gives them a chance to own the city, in America’s fastest grow­ing hous­ing mar­ket and start build­ing equi­ty.

Con­do prices start from below $500,000 and go up to over $3 mil­lion and since the build­ing won’t be com­plete until 2019, buy­ers have plen­ty of time to plan for the big move. “NEXUS is unique because it’s for sale,” said Michael Can­non, Sales Direc­tor for NEXUS. “The excite­ment for down­town liv­ing isn’t the only thing ris­ing, so is the neigh­bor­hood and medi­an home prices.”

Ready for your trip into the future? Learn more at http://nexusseattle.com/ and plan your trip to the sales cen­ter today.