SEATTLE—October 7, 2008— The permit has been finalized for Park Place North, a 62,000 s.f. commercial construction project in Kirkland’s Norkirk neighborhood, immediately north of the Park Place development. Designed to LEED® Silver standard, Park Place North will be unique in ...

The Kirkland Citizens for Responsible Development (CRD) have released a document listing various reasons why they oppose the development plans for Kirkland Parkplace. The four-page document, "Professional Economics/Urban Design Critique Parkplace Zoning Amendment", was produced by R.W. ...

Traffic analysis can be a complex issue. Touchstone understands that many Kirkland residents are deeply concerned about the potential traffic impacts of the Parkplace redevelopment. While a project of this scale can cause some people to be alarmed, there is a straightforward methodology to measure traffic impacts that is applied ...

Imagine a Downtown Kirkland so gridlocked on weekday afternoons, that you will avoid shopping or driving through downtown to get to I-405. How will this affect your current lifestyle and quality of life? From the Draft Environmental Impact Study (DEIS), we know that approximately 5,800 cars (office employees, office visitors, ...

  On Tuesday, The Kirkland City Council will hold public hearings regarding downtown planning and zoning (see: Kirkland City Council to hold Public Hearings on Building Moratorium). The public may express their opinions about ...

Touchstone and Citizens for Responsible Development have submitted 200-word rebuttals to each other's arguments which have been amended to their respective Point and Counterpoints. You can read them here: Point/Counterpoint: Touchstone on Kirkland Parkplace Parking Point/Counterpoint: CRD on Kirkland Parkplace Parking

As follow-up to the Downtown Kirkland Retail Strategy – Interim Report, this memorandum is intended to outline tools for consideration with implementation of a downtown retail strategy. This memorandum begins with discussion of the types of tools considered followed by outlining of strategic retail initiatives against which toolkit ...

The proposal by Touchstone Corporation to redevelop Parkplace provides for grossly inadequate parking. If approved as proposed, the parking shortfall will deliver a lasting, negative impact to the residents and businesses around downtown...

Throughout the public-review process of Touchstone’s proposed redevelopment of Kirkland Parkplace, parking has been one of the primary topics of discussion among local residents, business people and other community stakeholders...

The Kirkland Parkplace opposition group, Kirkland Citizens for Responsible Development (CRD) has produced a mailer announcing an open house the group will be holding. The mailer will be sent to 4,000 plus households in the Moss Bay, Highlands, Norkirk and Market neighborhoods. ...

The City of Kirkland has entered into a stay of 60 days in a good faith effort to settle the court case filed against the City by SRM Development over the process and outcome of their Bank of America / Merrill ...

The Kirkland City Council held a Special Council Meeting to answer questions of the Juanita neighborhood held Thursday evening at the Holy Spirit Lutheran Church in Juanita. Each council member spoke briefly about an issue and the audience was allowed to ...

The City Council will conduct two public hearings regarding the building moratorium, both on October 7, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. in City Hall Council Chamber, 123 5th Avenue. These hearings will be open to the public ...

Your editorial on Kirkland's six-month moratorium on high-rise construction downtown ("Kirkland takes a breath," April 19) raises troublesome questions about such actions beyond protecting a "treasured sense of scale," which most of us value. All those who have a stake in the integrity of the public...

I may have disagreements with the course we have taken to date, but I share the goal of the entire Council going forward: remove ambiguity from the development process, thus preventing the insanity of the past year from ever happening again...

At the 9/16 Kirkland City Council meeting, the Council voted approve Ordinance No. 4139, "imposing a moratorium within Central Business District (CBD) Zones 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8 on the acceptance of applications for review and/or issuance of development permits...

WHERE IS YOUR LEADERSHIP? In this time of economic stress, fiscal failings and general uneasiness about our community you should be doing everything you can to work with business and residents to make business successful in our communityYou should be working with developers...

It seems like everyone wants to get their view heard about the proposed downtown building moratorium. The Downtown Commercial Property Owners Group has penned a letter to the Council. The City Council will consider the issue tonight at City Hall...

The Greater Kirkland Chamber of Commerce recommends that the council use the processes already in place to evaluate these development issues and not take the extreme step of imposing a moratorium. Processes include the council making a proposal and...

The Kirkland City Council will consider a building moratorium for downtown during a study session in which they will discuss zoning and the design review process. With the possible exceptions of Parkplace and the Bank of America project (which is heading to Superior Court)...