Mount Baker Redevelopment Sites
The Office of Housing (OH) is selecting a development team for the Mount Baker Redevelopment Sites, located at 2901 27th Ave S, 2700 S Winthrop St, and 26th Ave S and S Forest St in Mount Baker, adjacent to the Link light rail station. After a thorough RFQ to RFP process, OH will be announcing the designated development team by July 5, 2024. Announcement to come. Please check back for updates on this development.
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Engagement for this portion of the project has ended. Please read our full engagement summary here. Thank you to all those who participated in the in-language focus groups. We held focus groups and one-on-one conversations in Amharic, Khmer, Mandarin, Oromo, Somali, Spanish, Tigrinya, and Vietnamese.
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Background
After many years of community planning, the Mount Baker station area is entering an exciting new phase!
In June 2020, the University of Washington transferred three parcels next to the Link light rail station, including the former UW Laundry site, to the City of Seattle to redevelop for affordable housing, childcare and an early learning research facility.
The City of Seattle and Sound Transit are working in partnership with community stakeholders and a consultant team to develop preferred site features for the City's Mount Baker sites and the Sound Transit East Portal site. The Mount Baker sites will provide affordable housing, childcare and an early learning research facility. Sound Transit seeks to redevelop its adjacent East Portal site for affordable housing. Both sites have opportunity for potential open space.
This transformational redevelopment opportunity fulfills a longstanding goal to create a more pedestrian-friendly and vibrant area around the light rail station. The Mount Baker station area is a community of residents, small businesses, and neighborhood institutions that reflects the diversity of the Rainier Valley. Decades of planning have envisioned a station area as a vibrant neighborhood destination that is welcoming and safe for all. Planning efforts include the North Rainier Neighborhood Plan and Accessible Mount Baker.
About Sound Transit: Sound Transit partners with private and non-profit developers to build transit-oriented development throughout the region.
Sound Transit offers surplus properties-those acquired for building and operating the transit system-as development opportunities for affordable housing or other public benefits. Sound Transit purchased the East Portal site for construction staging during light rail construction and has used the site for storage since the Mount Baker station opened.