Lynnwood plans for a new light-rail-linked urban village
LYNNWOOD — Transportation has long been part of Lynnwood’s history.
At the turn of the last century, Alderwood Manor was created when chicken farms and small ranches popped up at the Alderwood stop of the interurban trolley that connected Everett and Seattle.
Then the Lynnwood neighborhood spawned in the 1930s as a growing cluster of businesses began to line Highway 99.
And when I-5 opened in the 1960s, strip malls and restaurants surrounded the interstate and boosted traffic for the young municipality.
Now, city officials are preparing a new downtown core around a different kind of transit — incoming light rail.
Northline Village — a proposed development with 1,370 housing units, seven-story offices, 170,000 square feet for retail shops, 4,700 parking spots, two parks and room for a grocery store, movie theater and gym — could be the next step in the Lynnwood’s transition from Snohomish County suburb to high-density urban hot spot, said city center program manager Karl Almgren.
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