Development Is Lining Up Behind Seattle’s Light-Rail Push

Principal Jooyeol Oh, AIA, LEED AP, spoke with Joel Groover of ICSC C+CT about how MG2 projects, The Bowden and Mountlake Village, show the effects of Seattle’s future light rail expansion on the city.

Groover writes about The Bowden, “an MG2-designed mixed-use project that sits near the Overlake light-rail stop, which will connect to new stations at Marymoor Village and downtown Redmond. Construction will start this year, and the project will add 574 residential units and more than 5,000 square feet of ground-floor retail. As Oh sees it, growth of such residential projects should spur more demand for walkable retail in the neighborhood.”

Jooyeol Oh notes, “The city is envisioning that area to be a much-denser residential community, mixed with retail.”