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Overlake development plans continue with design approvals SAMANTHA PAK spak@redmond-reporter.com
With design approvals in hand as of last week, Capstone Partners, along with its financial partner Lionstone Investments, is nearly ready to move on the first phase of its 3 million-square-foot Esterra Park project located at the old Group Health Cooperative site at 2464 152nd Ave. N.E. in Redmond.
While plans for the two apartment buildings and one office building have been approved by the City of Redmond’s Design Review Board, associate planner Dennis Lisk said there is still work to do with Capstone and AvalonBay Communities — the company tasked with developing the apartment buildings — on finalizing things. “It’s getting down to the
technical details,” he said. Lisk said this work should take about two to four weeks to complete and they hope to apply for building permits sometime next month. He added that since the three buildings are located on separate parcels of land, they will each require separate sets of permits.
AN URBAN VILLAGE
Esterra Park, a blend
of “east” and “terra,” is the 28-acre sustainable, transitoriented, mixed-use project within Overlake Village. The site will be the first urban live-work campus created in the Pacific Northwest with additional park and hotel components. The project will include more than 1.2 million square feet of commercial space, more than 1,400 residential units and a 250-room hotel, all surrounding a new
Redmond High actors are ‘Singin’ in the Rain’
2.7-acre park. Lisk said there will be about 10 buildings total on the site. In addition to what’s to come, the Overlake neighborhood has 1.5 million square feet of existing retail and is located adjacent to State Route 520. A future light rail station is also planned. Capstone estimates 7,000-8,000 people will live and work at Esterra Park.
Redmond High School actors rehearse “The Dueling Cavalier” scene from their upcoming production of “Singin’ in the Rain.” Standing left to right are ensemble members Aliya Suleman, Kaelyn Melrose, Tamara Trbojevic, Mekhala Bijawat, Nicole Sarwono and Liza Vaughn and Conner York playing Don Lockwood. Seated left to right are ensemble members Ember Johnston, Gina Yatsenko and Tomm Firstenberg and Heather Loschen playing Lina Lamont. The show opens on Thursday for six performances at the school’s performing arts center, located at 17272 N.E. 104th St. For more information, visit www.redmonddrama.org. Courtesy of Matt Loschen
Redmond police report phone scams are on the rise
SAMANTHA PAK
Recently, the Redmond Police Department (RPD) and other local law enforcement agencies have been seeing an increase in reported and unreported phone scams. Mike Dowd, spokesperson for RPD, said the scams they are most concerned about involve suspects contacting victims by phone and
notifying them that they are the subject of a government investigation. The government agency the suspects supposedly represent can vary depending on the victim’s location, ranging from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to Puget Sound Energy (PSE) and even RPD. Dowd said victims are told by
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The project is the first phase of Redmond’s 170-acre Overlake Village master plan, which will house 30,00040,000 people when completed — about half the size of Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. Overlake Village is one of two urban centers the City of Redmond is developing — the second being downtown.
The latest round of results for the Lake Washington School District’s (LWSD) special election were released Wednesday afternoon, with both levies increasing their leads and the bond approval on Proposition 3 inching closer to a 60 percent passage. According to King County Elections, Prop 3 has increased its approval percentage to 57.77. The yes vote total has increased to 17,810 votes. The measure needs 60 percent approval to pass. The bond measure would allow the district to continue with its modernization pro-
the suspect that they have to send money through various means to keep from being arrested. “We want (the public) to know that is not how we do business,” he said. Dowd added that when callers claim to be from RPD, they sometimes say they are “Redmond deputies,” which is incorrect as deputies work for the sheriff ’s de-
gram with funds going toward replacing aging schools throughout the district. Prop. 1, Education Programs and Operations Levy, is passing with 21,396 votes in favor. The vote total kept the approval percentage at 65.44. Prop. 2, the Capital Projects Levy, is passing with 21,043 votes in favor. The vote total increased the approval percentage to 64.31. The two levies are renewals and require a simple majority of 50 percent, plus one to pass. So far, King County elections has received 32,832 ballots for the district’s special election, making for a 30.64 percent voter turnout.
partment and officers work for the police department. Dowd said the best way to respond to these calls is to just be polite, say thank you and then check with the agency the suspect claims to represent to see if what they said is true. You should also use a phone number you locate on your own, not the one provided by [ more POLICE page 6 ]
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