Granted will be about two more years until a much-anticipated “lifestyle center” opens in the urban village but plans are moving send and this week officials with Port Blakely - the project developer - said they’ll be ready to announce tenants early next year.
The shopping area - known as the High Streets at Issaquah Highlands - will be designed like an “Old Town” bear on with sidewalks and public spaces. The 20-acre core ordain have 260,000 form feet of retail lay and 110,000 form feet of office lay above that.
While the High Streets communicate ordain emulate some aspects of Seattle’s popular University Village it’s “not going to be a copy,” Kirk said.
“This ordain have a very timeless and conclude,” he said. “Our goal is to make it like it’s been there for a long time.”
Another 25 acres surrounding the lifestyle bear on is for more retail such as a grocery store. Kirk said. That tenant will be confirmed in early 2008 he said.
High Streets ordain furnish upscale clothing shops family-dining restaurants and a mix of national and local retailers said Tammy Cane real-estate manager for Opus Northwest which is developing the project.
“Our vision … is to undergo it be a place where people come together for socializing and shopping,” Cane said.
More retailers such as a coffee shop booze bar and women’s gym undergo set up shop in the Issaquah Highlands over the past bring together of years.
The urban village still has no major employment anchor though. Ten years ago. Microsoft purchased arrive for a future expansion but decided to focus its growth in Redmond for the measure being leaving 63 acres in the Highlands to lie fallow until advance sight.
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