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Property acquisitions begin along East Link alignment BY CELINA KAREIVA BELLEVUE REPORTER
A CPA who works from home, Scott Rodgers' condo in Carriage Place along 112th Avenue is in a prime location. He's within walking distance of downtown Bellevue, has immediate access to I-90 and I-405. And when he first moved there in 2006, with East Link alignment discussions
still underway and a preferred route running behind the Hilton Hotel, he thought he'd find himself conveniently close to light rail. “It's not that we're eager to go,” explains Rodgers, president of the Carriage Place Condominium Homeowners Association, who lives there with his wife. “It's that a lot of people need to get on with their lives.
Now that it's coming down to the acquisition, we're thinking, where else can we live? What will we be able to buy?” Rodgers' unit is one of 41 in Carriage Hills and Carriage Place condos that faces full acquisition by Sound Transit, now that an East Link alignment has been approved. When the Bellevue City Council certified a land use overlay in February of this year,
SEE ACQUISITIONS, 16
Downtown site of Las Margaritas sells for $31 million
Overlake testing device to remove clots Hospital one of three sites nationally to test benefit for victims of strokes BY CHRIS LOPAZE UW NEWS LAB
A grain of rice. That is approximately the size of a stroke victim’s blood clot. Overlake Medical Hospital is one of three hospitals in the U.S. participating in a FDA trial testing the Separator 3D, a new device to remove ischemic blood clots with less invasive methods. Dr. Abhineet Chowdhary, director of neurosurgery at Overlake, will be one of the primary doctors handling the device. “This particular [device] incorporates a lot of the good function of what’s already out there, but combines it into one,” Chowdhary said. “It’s like saying the wheel is good, an engine is good, AC is good, let’s make a car. You don’t want each one of those pieces, but you want the car.” This device treats only ischemic stroke, an obstruction caused by a blockage in the brain. Veins closer to the brain are smaller compared to
ST made a special appeal to speed up the course, initiating property acquisitions within 60 days of approving an alignment. “I certainly understand property owners’ trepidations about going through such a process,” reads a letter presented by ST CEO Joni Early to the council, “and I com-
Dr. Abhineet Chowdhary demonstrates the Separator 3D, a new device to remove ischemic blood clots with less invasive methods. CHRIS LOPAZE, UW News Lab veins in the body. As people get older, blood vessels narrow, increasing the risk. According to the National Stroke Association, stroke is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, with over 133,000 deaths per year out of approximately 795,000 strokes that occur. Ischemic strokes account for 87 percent of all strokes. Controllable risk factors for stroke are similar to risk factors for heart disease and cancer, such as smoking, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and living a sedentary lifestyle.
Current methods for treating stroke are an IV tPA-a drug with clot busting properties, administered through an IV-and mechanical thrombectomy, a process done by machines similar to the Separator 3D. The device is made of a malleable material called nickel titanium alloy, or nitinol, and is soft enough to not damage blood vessels. Inside the sheath, which is a tube, the device is attached to a green wire used to control it. SEE BLOOD CLOTS, 14
A site that includes restaurants Las Margaritas and Nibbana, surrounded by a sea of downtown Bellevue high-rises, sold on Monday for $31 million. The 1.34 acre property located at 437-527108th Ave. NE, had been privately owned for 30 years and went on sale in October of last year. Kidder Matthews represented the sellers, a retired dentist Milt Walter Zoning on the property would allow and his wife, Sue. for buildings as high as 450 feet. According to King CELINA KAREIVA, Bellevue Reporter County records from 2012, the Las Margaritas lot was appraised at $5.5 million and the neighboring location at $2.6 million. Though a small plot of land, it drew interest early on. The Walters were approached many times over the years, sometimes as often as once a week. When the property went on sale in October, Bellevue city staff had already flagged the site, and several other downtown properties as underdeveloped, meaning that they were occupied by outdated buildings or could afford to grow taller with the central business district's dwindling high rise office space. In the end, it sold to NIU Enterprises II LLC, a group of Chinese investors and companies. Zoning for the mixed use site would allow for a tower as high as 450 feet.
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