Thousands celebrate the opening of the 2 Line "The 2 Line between South Bellevue Station and Redmond Technology Station expands people’s options to explore dining, shopping, housing, and work opportunities that are now accessible by light rail for the first time on the Eastside....Next year will bring more 2 Line extensions, with the Downtown Redmond Link expected to open in Spring 2025, and the I-90 segment of East Link anticipated to extend across the floating bridge to connect the 2 Line to the 1 Line in downtown Seattle late in the year." (Sound Transit)
Issaquah Approves Affordable Housing Incentives Near Future Light Rail "The Issaquah City Council this week voted to approve a tax exemption intended to spur the construction of denser mixed-use housing in its transit-rich central city, where the city’s planned light rail station is set to open sometime in the 2040s. The Central Issaquah Pioneer Program, as its name implies, is intended to get the ball rolling on multifamily housing in the areas around Gilman Village and across I-90 around East Lake Sammamish Parkway and the East Lake Sammamish Trail." (The Urbanist)
AMLI's 17-story waterfront apartment tower prevails in court "The full-block waterfront parking lot at 1101 Western Ave. was recently restriped, and is ready for summer tourists. It's almost possible to forget that — with a proposal begun in 2017, as the DJC then first reported — AMLI Residential and architect GGLO have an approved plan to build a 17-story, 245-unit apartment project." (Seattle DJC)
Apartments still planned for Belltown Self-Storage "It's been about eight years, with two architects and different owners attached, since the conversion plan for the landmarked Belltown Self-Storage building was hatched. For now, the midblock storage building at 1915 Third Ave. is still operating." (Seattle DJC)
