Renton/Tukwila/SeaTac/Burien Development News

[sequoias]

Originally Posted by taiwanesedrummer36

Sure, i'll get thousands of pictures..........when gas prices go back to $2.00 a gallon!

Take the bus and stop by to walk around and take pictures.

[NW Mike]

I agree with Bond. I was down at Frys Tuesday and it great to see progress but its not much to take pictures of. There are bigger and better things to waist megabytes on.

[bgwah]

Originally Posted by jiggawhat?

if i get time soon ill get some, im a 5 min drive from newcastle.

I thought you lived in Fairwood? Isn't that a lot closer to Renton than it is to Newcastle?

[taiwanesedrummer36]

Disregard whatever I said earlier.

[jiggawhat?]

my mom lives in fairwood, my dad lives in newcastle.

[rj2uman]

Was down at the landing today to drop off some stuff for the Staples store that's opening. I was surprised at how fast the apartment buildings are going up! I guess the lack of rain is really helping!

[kub86]

My bus passed by the Landing and I'm not sure what to think. I thought this was supposed to be an example of an exciting TOD? It looks like nothing but a strip mall with some apartments separated by acres of parking. I'm disappointed right now, but I'll have to wait till the whole project is done.

[taiwanesedrummer36]

Originally Posted by kub86

My bus passed by the Landing and I'm not sure what to think. I thought this was supposed to be an example of an exciting TOD? It looks like nothing but a strip mall with some apartments separated by acres of parking. I'm disappointed right now, but I'll have to wait till the whole project is done.

It's a new fad in the Seattle area: a power center (or strip mall) but dressed up to look upscale and like an urban village. But then again, I haven't seen the Landing yet.

[jiggawhat?]

the area you saw with the target and staples and petsmart is part of the stip mall complex, thats not the district part of the landing. The district will be little stores and reteraunts and bakert lining the streets.....no parking in between the buildings. that area wont be much like a strip mall.


the part that is open and built is on the bottom half of the large parking lot....those are meant to be big box stores and strip mallish... (target, staples, patsmart).

[bgwah]

I think it would be great if it didn't have so much surface parking. I would also like for their to be more residential above the retail.

Is there any chance those parking lots could be further developed in the future? Perhaps if the market ever made it feasible to build parking garages and more efficiently use the land?

[jiggawhat?]

i think they made those huge parking lots on purpose. If your shopping at target or any of those strip mall type stores, you dont want to bring your cart up a ramp in a parking garage. They made that large parking area to accomodate those stores, all targets are like that. The made a parking garage in that one area because all the stores are small and dont require carts ect. Its kinda logical the way they set it up by seperating the strip mall components from the reteraunts and botiques. When driving down there the parking lot doesnt seem all that big...and on the one end will be market lane (with overhead lighting going across the road) and some small stores (2 i think). Also, in the middle of the parking lot will be the landing tower, which is 80' tall.....the parking lot is broken up well.....to me it seems that way. If there wasnt that parking...people would be bitchin and complaing. Either way there will be unhappy people.

[bgwah]

^Well, they could keep the ground level parking for those stores, and then put housing on top.

[kub86]

The parking created a big gulf between the two areas. They could've changed the layout a bit so that the parking where the "B" is, got swapped with the 3 anchor stores below it. Then there'd be the same amount of parking but now the two districts would've been connected.

[jiggawhat?]

true^ they could....i thought it was stupid that they didnt build high rise condos. somthing they had mentioned and hopped for in the renton paper.

[taiwanesedrummer36]

Originally Posted by jiggawhat?

true^ they could....i thought it was stupid that they didnt build high rise condos. somthing they had mentioned and hopped for in the renton paper.

Probably because of Boeing and the Renton Airport. If none of those were there, Renton would've probably built an upscale waterfront village with plenty of high-rise condos.

[jiggawhat?]

boeing needs to move their asses out. hahah. thats primo land....the airport though is to the left of the development...meaning they could build highrises since it isnt in a flight path.

[citruspastels]

big box totally works vertically with parking garages. it's way better in my opinion if it's done well. just look at target up at northgate.

[Bond James Bond]

This isn't Renton, but it looks like something to keep an eye out on in the future:
http://www.ci.tukwila.wa.us/dcd/tuks...uksouthTOC.pdf

[jiggawhat?]

hmmm, i lie the sound of that development. the only office development i know going in in renton is southport with the three 9 story building on the water

[NW Mike]

I hope they keep open space with greenery and not turn it into a addition to Southenter shopping with Sea's of parking lots. But it could be interesting.