Saturday’s Northgate Urban Design Framework meeting will be more exciting than this – I promise!

Come give your input on future design at Northgate. It is important. It will be fun. And, you won’t regret it.

Saturday, November 22Open House 1:30-4:30 pmNorthgate Community Center10510 5th Ave. N.E.Language interpretation and child care available

Learn more here and here and here.

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11/22 Community Meeting on the Proposed Northgate Urban Design Framework

Over the years, the community and the City have worked together in Northgate on a number of planning efforts. The City is taking all of the recommendations of these previous plans and using them to create an “Urban Design Framework” for the area between Meridian Ave N and Roosevelt Ave N and roughly from North [...]

$49 Million

There is $49 million in completed or proposed public investment in Northgate:

Northgate CTIP Complete (2006) – Plan for multi-modal transportation infrastructure – $500,000 5th Ave NE streetscape improvements (2007) – wide sidewalks, street trees, 25 new light fixtures, landscaped street medians, pedestrian crossing to the mall – $2,100,000 5th Ave/Northgate Way ROW Acquisition/Design [...]

10/25 Special Pinehurst Tour of Thornton Place

The work on Thornton Place, the new “village” at the former Northgate south parking lot, has been ongoing for about a year and a half. I have been watching it evolve each week and am looking forward to the opening next year. If you have been wondering what the project is all about, here is [...]

Map of Proposed Northgate Rezone Area

map from Puget Sound Business Journal

Northgate Rezone – Learn More About It

If you don’t have lots of free time or insomnia, reading the entire 211 page draft EIS for the Northgate rezone proposal may be daunting. However, a rezone would have many impacts to those of us who live in the Northgate area and I strongly encourage you to read what you can to educate yourself [...]

Northgate: From Prototype Suburban Mall to Urban Center

Want to learn about the proposed changes at Northgate? Join the Seattle Great City Initiative – Brownbag Lunch Forum:Northgate: From Prototype Suburban Mall to Urban CenterMay 8th, 200812:00-1:30Triad Urban Center701 Third Avenue (NW Corner of Third and Cherry)Seattle, WA 98104Northgate, the nation’s first mall, is also one of Seattle’s six Urban Centers. Urban Centers are [...]

Northgate Urban Center Legislative Rezone Proposal

The following is Q&A prepared by the City of Seattle regarding the Northgate Urban Center Legislative Rezone Proposal:

Q1: What is the Northgate Urban Center Rezone proposal?A: The City is proposing to change zoning on up to 98 acres of land in the Northgate Urban Center in the City of Seattle. The rezone would allow [...]

Northgate Rezone Draft EIS – Expected May 1

A draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed Northgate Rezone is due out May 1st.

I posted some background on the proposal a while back. And, we had invited Michelle Chen and Kristian Kofoed to speak to Pinehurst Planning and Development Group regarding the rezone proposal earlier this year. However, they had to cancel [...]

4/17 Northgate Stakeholders Meeting

Thursday, April 175 to 7 p.m.Room ED2843ANorth Seattle Community College

The proposed agenda includes:* Update on the South lot construction,* Update on Northgate Urban Center Park,* Discussion about annual progress on CTIP (Coordinated Transportation Investment Plan), and* Status of the draft EIS for the proposed Northgate Urban Center legislative rezone.

In addition, North Seattle Community [...]