Leave it to a city famous for coffee and rain to produce possibly the
best example of transit-oriented urbanism, natural public space, and
green stormwater infrastructure I have ever seen. This Seattle
redevelopment is green in so many ways that it is hard to know where to
start.
Maybe we should start with the parking lot, because that’s what the
whole nine-acre site was before redevelopment began. Ugly. Horrible for
the environment. A complete waste of urban space:
The site is in an area that is transitioning from automobile-oriented
and suburban in feel to walkable and lively. It sits just south of the
Northgate shopping mall, northeast of a community college, a couple of
blocks east of the I-5 freeway, and just west of an area of
single-family homes. It is transit-rich, however, just a block from a
major bus transfer station (with planned light rail access).
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| photo by tinatinatinatinatina |
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