Shoreline Echo Lake Mixed Use Development Project
Shoreline City Council, YMCA, & Private Property Owner, Shoreline, Washington

We recently conducted a design charrette with Shoreline city council and staff, YMCA, and the private property owner and developer on the mixed use development concepts for the south shore of Echo Lake for a public park and trail, city hall, police station, YMCA, and private retail and residential uses.

The city is currently renting space in leased office buildings for city hall, public works, and police functions. The city needs to develop a permanent city hall and police station facility that will provide the functional building space we identified in long-range programming requirements – and realize a civic facility to represent the city image and stimulate redevelopment activity. The Echo Lake site was one of 6 site alternatives we identified and analyzed as possible city hall options.

We conducted the design charrette for the Echo Lake site to identify specific planning and design ideas that could meet each participant’s facility requirements, capitalize on the site’s unique development opportunities, and create a long-range vision for this important site in the city. The charrette identified alternative concepts for access and parking, building configurations and use occupants, public commons and shared site improvements, parks and trails, urban design, property and site development agreements, and implementing regulatory measures.

We also estimated building capacities, development costs, and other pro forma particulars necessary for the participants to resolve purchase and development options, a master plan agreement, and common parking and site improvement cost allocations.