Comments on: Three options for Kirkland Parkplace - cast your vote in our online poll

By: John Gilday

John Gilday — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:02:48 +0000

ALL of the major restaurants (Purple, Rikki Rikki, Lucia) would face the Park in the new development.

Great outsoor seating and a view of the sun sinking over Queen Anne.

By: John Gilday

John Gilday — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:57:41 +0000

I agree, lets turn Park Place back into a blackberry covered carnival lot like it was in the 60’s.

While we’re at it, lets replace The Kirkland Police Department with Andy Griffith and Don Knotts. Hell, lets get rid of that pesky polio vaccine and measles immunization - they all sound too ’21st Century’ for my taste.

It seems like these darn developers all seem to want to remodel every 40-50 years! Pretty soon they’ll come to my door demanding I give up my fountain pen and get one of those gosh darn IBM Selectric typewriters! HELL NO!

And while we’re at it, lets demand women start wearing modest bathing suits that cover their ankles, these harlots are walking around with their knees showing! Enough to drive a man to drink. In fact I think I will.

By: murph

murph — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:28:41 +0000

Mutli-family replacing a PORTION of the office designated space would not change the amenities for local residents. On the contrary, IMO, it would IMPROVE the amenities we are lacking and enhance nightime ambience. The project is huge and will be predominantly a dead zone at night if it is all commercial/office.

By: kirkland busy body

kirkland busy body — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:09:40 +0000

Murph,
IMO Moss Bay has enough residential. I want less multi-family (you can’t really call an apartment tower that because families won’t be living there!)and more amnenities for those of us who live around there.
KBB

By: murph

murph — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:43:17 +0000

Correction, I meant that I would like to see RESIDENTIAL incorporated into the mix of hotel, office, theater and retail

By: murph

murph — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:42:40 +0000

I’ve thought a lot about this project. I don’t have a problem with 11 stories in order to stagger the heights rather than one height throught a footprint of this size. I feel even more strongly, however, that it should incorporate retail into the mix of hotel, office, theater and retail. This would make it a more vibrant development 24/7.

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By: greg sparhawk

greg sparhawk — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:01:17 +0000

this dialog has been very interesting. i love the fact that i live in a place where people are concerned about their hometown and are willing to fight for what they feel identifies their place. as viewing from the sidelines, we have all become too jaded by the statistics. poorly designed buildings, regardless of their size, will sterilize any proposal put forward. we have gotten to the point where we are splitting hairs and we need to move forward thoughtfully, along with a well defined aesthetic that we, as citizens (both new and old), feel suits the direction of this community. i am currently in support of the mixed use route, but feel it is imperitive that assistance of the design be influenced by the people who will LIVE in and around this space, not simply left to the developers, who may or may not complain about the costs of development, that could potentially hurt our town.

By: Want to be kirkland

Want to be kirkland — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:23:29 +0000

I would like to see mixed-use, but if it were all offices, those people would have to come into downtown to eat and shop. Seems to me, that would provided the needed shot-in-the arm for downtown retailers.

And it should be clarified for the people here who think one 11-story building is not that bad. Look again at the plan, it calls for three 11-story buildings, including one along the park.

By: ADR

ADR — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:24:18 +0000

I believe the mixed use 8 story proposal is the best. The eleven story could be good but I would want to know if it would include the same amenities that the eight story project has. It will be nice to have more restaurants and shops to choose from and would make some of us Kirkland residents not as reliant on Bellevue and Seattle to fill those needs.

People are saying that Touchstone is holding us hostage with the two proposals. But you are forgetting they are in business to make money and thankfully they are going through the headache to try and give us something that would be good for the community. They don’t have to go through as much hassle with office park since they don’t need any height variances. I applaud Touchstone and hope they don’t get frustrated with trying to develop Park Place and fall back on their second option, the business park.