Shoreline Development News/Pictures

Hewitt showed off the "town green" center of the Shoreline Place development 2 nights ago.

Here's a rendering: http://shorelineplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ShorelinePlace-Phase2-rendering.jpg

and.....here's a website: http://shorelineplace.com/details/

There's a video released as well that's embedded in the page.

From todays DJC.

https://www.djc.com/news/ae/12120020.html

March 19, 2019

MGP adds Hewitt to Shoreline Place team
By JOURNAL STAFF

Two years ago, Merlone Geier Partners bought the old Sears property in Shoreline, at 15711 Aurora Ave N., for almost $15 million. Shoreline Place is the new moniker for what was once called Aurora Square, which totals about 70 acres.

GGLO is overseeing the design for MGP's nearly 17-acre site, and Hewitt has now joined the team as landscape architect.

MGP's phased redevelopment is expected to last several years. It will ultimately add about 1,358 residential units—possibly to include some condominiums—and reconfigure the retail, new and existing, to about 75,000 square feet.

The old Sears store, which anchored Aurora Square when it opened in 1967, will eventually be torn down.

No pictures but driving on Aurora today I noticed that Trammell Crow has started site construction on their 155th and Westminster project, which they purchased from Lobsang Dargey:
https://www.shorelineareanews.com/2018/12/trammell-crow-purchases-potala-place.html

A couple pictures of the old post office on 175th and 15th Ave NE, looks topped out:

[url=https://flic.kr/p/2ghQUqG]20190617_145831_HDR on Flickr

[url=https://flic.kr/p/2ghRuJC]20190617_145515 on Flickr

20190617_145515 on Flickr

Some recent photos from around Shoreline:

20190804_120504 on Flickr
155th and Aurora/Westminster
20190804_121436 on Flickr
20190804_121325 on Flickr
Old USPS Office 175th and 15th NE
20190804_121709 on Flickr
180th and 12th NE
20190804_123839 on Flickr
Midvale (next to Aurora) and 180th-ish
20190804_122559_HDR on Flickr
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20190804_122554 on Flickr
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I saw this transaction on the MLS because of how ridiculous it seemed at the time. This is the block between Corliss and 1st Ave NE, from 145th to 147th, right across I-5 from the future Link station. It was originally a 9 parcel assemblage listed at $7.9mm, but was bought for $12.8mm, which didn't make sense until the fencing went up for this. It looks like the developer got every single house along 147th, bringing it to 15 parcels. This land is zoned at MUR45, meaning multifamily with commercial possible on the G/F up to four stories.

Demolition has commenced on 147th and 1st Ave NE:
[url=https://flic.kr/p/2h6h8E6]20190825_173820_HDR on Flickr

Alright, big update since I have nothing to do with the city virtually on quarantine!

Here's almost every MF/commercial project going on in Shoreline right now.

Old post office at 175th and 15th NE:
20200318_161543_HDR on Flickr

177th and 15th NE:
20200318_161728 on Flickr

New SFD firehouse west of 15th on NE 180th:
20200318_161839_HDR on Flickr

Arabella Phase 2:
20200318_161946 on Flickr

Completed and moved-in townhomes on 185th and 10th NE:
20200318_162039_HDR on Flickr

185th and 3rd NE:
20200318_162447_HDR on Flickr

180th and 3rd:
20200318_162545_HDR on Flickr

Roughly 183rd and 1st NE:
20200318_162645_HDR on Flickr

North of 185th on Wallingford (three separate projects):
20200318_162904 on Flickr

20200318_162908_HDR on Flickr

20200318_162933 on Flickr

180th and Midvale/Aurora:
20200318_163456 on Flickr

155th/Westminster/BGT/Aurora (taken from old Sears):
20200318_164002 on Flickr

20200318_164029 on Flickr

Finally, townhomes at 145th/1st NE/147th:
20200318_170448 on Flickr

Some of those townhomes look bleak.

Thanks for the updates!

Do any of the projects in North City have a retail component?

araman0 said:

Thanks for the updates!

Do any of the projects in North City have a retail component?

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Both projects on 15th Ave NE seem to have a small retail unit

Looking good for a big redevelopment!
MDG buys old Shoreline shopping center for $12M
By BRIAN MILLER
Real Estate Editor
The Shops at Richmond Village, at 600 N.W. Richmond Beach Road in Shoreline, has sold for $12.2 million, according to King County records. The buyer was Richmond Village Retail LLC, which is associated with Madison Development Group of Issaquah. Public records indicate a loan from Washington Trust Bank.

New owner MDG did apply recently for a lot line adjustment (there are two parcels with about 5.3 acres), but no new building plans have been filed. The company, led by Tom Lee and Jim Gallaugher, does both retail and mixed-use development.

The seller was M.L. Davies Investment Co., which had owned the property for decades — and may have been the original developer. Brokers were not announced. The deal was worth about $281 per square foot.

Developed in 1965, with small later additions, the three-building complex has about 43,418 square feet. Most of the property is parking. QFC is the anchor tenant; and there's also a Swedish medical clinic, among other smaller tenants.

Meanwhile, in Kirkland's Rose Hill neighborhood, MDG and MG2 are planning to totally redevelop an old 7-acre shopping center with about 870 units over new retail/commercial space. MDG acquired that property last December for $40 million.

And early this year, MDG completed the 108-unit Luna, with a new PCC Community Market, in West Seattle.

nwctybldr said:

Looking good for a big redevelopment!
MDG buys old Shoreline shopping center for $12M
By BRIAN MILLER
Real Estate Editor
The Shops at Richmond Village, at 600 N.W. Richmond Beach Road in Shoreline, has sold for $12.2 million, according to King County records. The buyer was Richmond Village Retail LLC, which is associated with Madison Development Group of Issaquah. Public records indicate a loan from Washington Trust Bank.

New owner MDG did apply recently for a lot line adjustment (there are two parcels with about 5.3 acres), but no new building plans have been filed. The company, led by Tom Lee and Jim Gallaugher, does both retail and mixed-use development.

The seller was M.L. Davies Investment Co., which had owned the property for decades — and may have been the original developer. Brokers were not announced. The deal was worth about $281 per square foot.

Developed in 1965, with small later additions, the three-building complex has about 43,418 square feet. Most of the property is parking. QFC is the anchor tenant; and there's also a Swedish medical clinic, among other smaller tenants.

Meanwhile, in Kirkland's Rose Hill neighborhood, MDG and MG2 are planning to totally redevelop an old 7-acre shopping center with about 870 units over new retail/commercial space. MDG acquired that property last December for $40 million.

And early this year, MDG completed the 108-unit Luna, with a new PCC Community Market, in West Seattle.

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Interesting. I grew up a quarter mile from here, they recently renovated the strip mall building, within the past decade or so. If my memory serves correctly, this lot is zoned multifamily, but not intensely enough that would allow for a full demo and redev. Gonna be watching this one!

Just checked Shoreline zoning- my memory serves wrong! This lot has a CB designation, which should allow for a four or five-plus-one complex.

Katerra opens Shoreline apartments with CLT floor and ceiling assemblies
By JOURNAL STAFF

Photos by Aaron Locke [enlarge]
The Postmark sits on a former post office site in Shoreline.

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Mass timber was used throughout the project, including the freestanding courtyard clubhouse between the two residential buildings.

Katerra last fall opened its 243-unit Shoreline apartment project called The Postmark. The name apparently was inspired by the city's old post office that previously occupied the site at 17233 15th Ave. N.E.

A Katerra news release says the project is one of the first developments in the country to use cross-laminated timber for floor and ceiling assemblies. Katerra used 3D modeling and virtual design and construction to create the building prototype, which called for making components in a factory. It also came up with fire-resistant solutions to maintain the building's structural integrity, such as using Hilti fire protection products to seal penetrations and joints between floors and walls.

“We didn't want to just come up with a solution that was going to work for one project, this is changing the industry at a nationwide level, when this body of testing and evidence could come into place for nationwide approval on projects,” said Hans-Erik Blomgren, director of testing and certification for structural products at Katerra, in a YouTube video.

The project consists of two five-story buildings above a two level below-grade parking structure. Permit applications submitted in 2017 to the city indicated 267 parking stalls in the garage.

Postmark's website lists studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments for lease at monthly rates from $1,480 for studios to $3,005 for two-bedroom units. Rates for a three-bedroom layout of 1,203 square feet were not listed. Available studios range from 455 to 490 square feet, single bedrooms are 562-720 square feet, and two bedrooms are 840-1,050 square feet. Units have exposed wood ceilings and beams, thanks to the mass timber construction.

Amenities include a courtyard clubhouse, lobby lounge with fireplace and big screen TV, fitness center and yoga studio, game room with billiards, outdoor terrace with ping pong and barbecues, media lounge, community kitchen, espresso bar and bike parking.

Katerra built the project on schedule and also provided construction management, architecture and engineering services. The Wolff Co. was the developer.

Great! Now if Shoreline Place could start up the Shoreline will finally have a pseudo-downtown!

Yeah, what's the deal with that? I haven't seen/heard anything about that in years. Didn't they adopt the plan for it like 5 years ago?

JFC. $1480 + $100 (?) parking + $120 utilities = $1700 to live in a studio in Shoreline?

smerfylicious said:

Great! Now if Shoreline Place could start up the Shoreline will finally have a pseudo-downtown!

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Maybe, although the beef I have with this place is it's on a prominent corner on the main commercial drag through North City, but doesn't have retail. I think it's a huge missed opportunity for the future of North City's "Main Street" for this building to have omitted retail.

A new climbing gym just opened up next door to the south of this too. and one of my favorite restaraunts Leena's is just up the street. As an LFP resident I love North City and the new development is very exciting.

Can anyone read this article? Darn paywalls...is MGP getting out of the Shoreline Place Development?