Lakewood Urban Redevelopment Plan
Lakewood Community Development Department, Lakewood, Washington

We created a detailed market strategy, economic analysis, urban design concepts, comprehensive plan elements, and implementation program for the redevelopment of a 750 acre, 50 block urban core areas for new retail, office, entertainment, housing, and public uses for the Lakewood Department of Community Development. We conducted property owner and public opinion surveys, public design charrettes and workshops, and created detailed urban design guidelines for development of 7 strategic property offerings.

As a newly incorporated city, Lakewood officials wanted to create strategies for revitalizing or redeveloping the underutilized and under-developed properties adjacent to I-5, McChord Air Force Base, the proposed Sound Transit rail alignments, along Bridgeport Way , and around Lakewood Town Center , Clover Park VoTech College , and Lakewood Industrial Park .

Our redevelopment plan will revise and complete a basic street and trails grid providing access between the suburbanized city and adjacent interstate highways and regional arterial roadways. The transportation element will also construct Sound Transit’s heavy rail commuter train station in the middle of the project and re-orient local bus service to access proposed new anchor activity areas.

Our strategy to redevelop the 7 proposed public offering sites will create 2,352 urban density dwelling units, an 84 unit business hotel, 322,034 square feet of ground floor retail, and 740,200 square feet of upper floor office and business space. Our strategy will also create a new high tech employment park with 642,600 square feet of manufacturing space with rail spur service options.