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Transit Oriented Developments

When completed in 2002, The Village at Overlake Station will showcase a new kind of transit-oriented community combining workforce housing and a child care facility built above a Park and Ride Transit Center--the first project of its kind in the nation. [Full view, 76KB]

King County's innovative Transit Oriented Development Program is leading the way in putting housing and jobs near existing transit hubs as a way to reduce congestion and contain urban sprawl.  

In a recent survey by the Hebert Research Company, 200 chief executives of Eastside businesses gave their highest rating to TOD and cited housing as crucial to employee satisfaction and retention, a key element to maintaining a "business friendly" environment. 

King County  now has 10 TOD projects being negotiated, under construction, or completed.  Over the new few years, they are expected to:

• produce more than 1-thousand units of housing
• create space for more than 27-hundred jobs
• bring more than $8-million to the county and help us make higher and better use of some of our surplus properties.

Completed

• Northgate North, Seattle: development of a Target Store next to a Park and Ride lot, with creation of a new NE 112th Street to provide access to a shared parking garage.

Under Construction

• Metropolitan Place, Renton: the first project in the nation that puts housing directly above a park-and-ride lot and right next to a bus transit center.  90 apartments, 150 new Park and Ride stalls.
• The Village at Overlake Station, Redmond (pictured above): first in the nation to combine transit park-and-ride lot with affordable housing and day care.  308 apartments.

Being Negotiated

• Denny Triangle Green Streets, Seattle
• Doces Building, Seattle
• Kent Sound Transit Garage
• Olson-Myers, West Seattle
• Tashiro-Kaplan Building, Seattle

Request for Information

• Burien Park and Ride Lot
• Kent Park and Ride Lot on James Street

Feasibility Studies Underway

• Brickyard, Bothell
• Convention Place, Seattle
• Federal Way: new Sound Transit parking garage and transit center
• Kenmore: fair site
• Kent Municipal Parking Lot, near Sound Transit rail station
• Northgate Transit Center, Seattle
• Northshore 
• Shoreline
• Tukwila: Sound Transit rail station at Boeing/Longacres
• University District, Seattle
• Kingsgate, Kirkland
• downtown Kirkland
• South Kirkland 
• downtown Redmond
• Woodinville
• Issaquah Highlands Park and Ride Lot
• North Lake Union, Seattle

TOD also allows the public sector to work with the private sector to create win-win projects that benefit the region as a whole, and this Friday, the Fourth Annual Transit Oriented Development Event is taking place, called "'Doing the Deal'--Investing in TOD Sites"

Friday, March 30th, at the Holiday Inn in Renton
Workshop--8 a.m.-noon 
Site Tour--noon-3 p.m.

The workshop will give participants a better idea of available financing tools and provide advice on where to go for information and potential development partners. It also will tour some "hot" transit-oriented development sites in Renton, Tukwila, Kent 

The workshop is sponsored by King County, Puget Sound Regional Council, Sound Transit, 1000 Friends of Washington, Snohomish County, and the cities of Kent, Renton, Seattle and Tukwila.  

Registration Form for "Doing the Deal" workshop (MS Word 97 file).
For more information, please contact Carol Chan, King County Office of Regional Policy and Planning, King County, at (206) 205-0702 or carol.chan@metrokc.gov.

Related links

King County DOT Transit Oriented Development Program
Puget Sound Regional Council Transit Station Communities 
City of Seattle Link Light Rail Station Area Planning and Management

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