A new website for the Landing has been unveiled, with all new renderings, lists of businesses, information on hours, etc. Check it out!

www.thelandinginrenton.com

Note that the new web address is at The Landing IN Renton

The City’s Transportation Committee held a public meeting at “The Landing” construction site, and Gary Palmer captured the event in pictures.

Councilman Randy Corman and his wife Cathy

This Roundabout is between Park and Logan, on a new private entertainment street in the Landing, where it crosses a new 10th street. The center plaza will be planted and signed “The Landing”

This is the area that the Sonics wanted to purchase, north of the Boeing buildings that line 6th street. For those of you who work at Boeing, you will know this as the site of the 10-80 building. The street in the foreground is the new extension of 8th street…an all new segment that used to be inside the Boeing gate. This section of 8th street should be open for Boeing employees to get to work as of Monday (July 2.)

Verizon, Panda Express, and other shops will go in here

This is a new view down Park Avenue, from the intersection with the new 10th street. With all the new streets, traffic is predicted to flow better than many citizens expect. There will also be lots of parking, including a 700 stall parking garage.

Cranes hover over the start of the new apartments, which will be seven stories tall and provide housing for thousands. It’s not too early to look into renting if you are interested.

Another view down the new 10th street, near the roundabout

New view of Boeing Final Assembly hangers

New movie theater will have 16 screens

Another view down 10th

More construction shots

The city and developers are providing nice finishes on all the streets, and sidewalks that are 14 feet wide. All paving is being done in concrete, with different colors and patterns to add character and make it more clear how to get around. This grid pattern marks the edge of the street where parallel parking will be allowed. Major intersections will be done in brown concrete, which looks like larger tiles.

Still more street work! The City expects to have Park Avenue open for traffic in just two more weeks!!! Yay!

Hope you enjoyed this exclusive tour…leave me your commets please!

Thanks, Renton WA

I’m posting this email to you because I know this new Landing website will be of great interest to many of you. However, I am not taking comments on this article, as the Landing is has been appealed to City Council and under the rules of “Quasi-Judicial Preoeedings” I should not engage in dialogue on the topic prior to the hearing.

From: Natalie Quick <nquick@feareygroup.com> [ Save Address ]
To: rcorman@ci.renton.wa.us
Subject: The Landing Community Website has launched!
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:15:31 -0700

Hi Councilmember Corman,

Hope this email finds you well. We wanted to let you know that we’ve officially launched The Landing’s community website, which you can view online at The Landing Website

The site is dedicated to bringing Renton residents up-to-date information on everything related to The Landing. From updates about construction progress and tenant announcements to the latest news and information regarding the appeals from our neighbor to the south, this is the place to go for all of the facts.

The homepage is set up in a blog format so community members can instantly access new information, log their views and opinions and even send a message directly to Westfield. Once there, the community can access all media coverage and get updates and information on events.

You can also go to the “Get Involved” page and sign up for regular updates and place your name on a list of supporters of the project.

Please feel free to forward this information to those in the community that would like to stay informed on what’s happening at The Landing. And, as always, if you have any questions or comments, don’t hesitate to phone or email me.

www.thelanding-renton.com

Best,

Natalie Quick

I like these pictures I took at the Landing ground breaking ceremony on Tuesday!

My wife Cathy, in front of the banner and the official ground-breaking sandpile. (The kids searched for buried treasure in the sand.)

Some MySpace friends help in the ground breaking while sporting their new “Renton Myspace Friend” T shirts.

We held an exciting Committee-of-the-Whole and City Council Meeting last night. The council voted 7 to 0 to approve the construction of the streets to support the new Landing shopping center. The bonds will cost us 1.3 million per year, but we expect to receive new tax revenues of at about twice that on the most basic version of the Landing shopping center. The new construction will include the connection of Logan Avenue with the Freeway, which will put an arterial connection directly from I-405 (exit 5) though the Landing and into the center of our downtown. This will be great for our city.

Better still, we are doing the roadwork in concrete instead of asphalt, which has a life expectancy of 35-50 years. The bonds will be paid off a generation before the roads need significant maintenance. Meanwhile, the Landing will provide shopping, dining, entertainment, and tax revenues to our city.

Our attorneys are still fussing with some assorted appeals of the project, several sponsored by South Center Mall, but I believe these will at most affect the plans only “around the edges” a little. We know the land will support a shopping center, and we are going forward with the roads.

We will next turn our attention to a possible public parking garage and other public infrastructure enhancements. If these can be shown to produce a denser entertainment center and more financial activity, and enough tax revenues to pay their way (per the approved development agreement), then I am quite in favor of them.

I hope you, dear readers, share my enthusiasm for this project. My neighbors, my family and I have waited a very long time to get these kinds of shopping and entertainment options so close to home. And the tax money will help the city’s bottom line.