SEATTLE—Seattle's Olympic Sculpture Park might be getting a new neighbor, the Seattle Times reports. Developer Martin Selig is planning to build a 14-story luxury apartment building along the northern edge of the park, a change that would replace a two-story parking garage and dramatically alter the backdrop to the park's amphitheater and Richard Serra's Wake, one of the park's signature artworks. Condos have been cropping up around the $85 million sculpture park since it opened, but Selig's development would be the closest, just 15 feet from the property line.

Selig, who has owned for 24 years the property on which the new building will go, said he was "very, very sensitive to the integration of this luxury apartment building to the sculpture park," but some of the locals are already complaining. "When I look at the design and size of that building, to my mind it's going to dominate the skyline in this whole area and encroach on the park considerably," said Don Hussong, an ocean mapper whose office is at Pier 69 near the park.

Selig and members of the staff of the Seattle Art Museum, which manages the park, have met to discuss the design. "We just want to make sure it's done in a sensitive way," SAM spokeswoman Erika Lindsay said. "At this point, we think it will be, but since our conversations with Mr. Selig are ongoing, we're not comfortable making much comment. He knows what we want."