PACE provided civil engineering, land use planning, landscape architecture, and surveying services for this unique mixed-use transit-oriented development (TOD) along the I-5 corridor in Mountlake Terrace. PACE worked closely with the owner, architect, and city staff to develop a Master Site Plan to connect the housing and retail development to adjacent neighborhoods through pedestrian-friendly streets and trails. The site plan showcased open spaces seamlessly integrating the natural environment with the built community.
PACE prepared construction plans, including designs for a new city road, water and sewer mainline extensions, storm drainage, detention, and water quality improvements utilizing low-impact development techniques, site grading, landscape, and irrigation. The Terrace Station community consists of three distinctive mixed-use buildings with the prominent Sound Transit link light rail elevated track as a backdrop. The built-out property contains 650 residential apartment units and 100,000 SF consumer-oriented retail space.
PACE was instrumental in designing the main road, Van Ry Boulevard, a tree-lined road corridor providing vehicle access to the Terrace Station development and pedestrian access to the nearby light rail station. The road design features a stormwater bioswale in the center of the street, conveying stormwater down a cascading planted median.
The landscape design elements for the project included:
- Street-level planting with planted medians
- An emphasis on retail frontage and a public pedestrian plaza
- Raised planters
- Site Furnishings
- Courtyard-level and roof-top planting/irrigation design
