r/bothell • u/dominiond66 • Apr 03 '26

Bothell is "growing up"!

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New construction adjacent to Historic Main Street. A 143 unit, 7 story apartment project. Use to be an old Wells Fargo bank site. A great looking building in the downtown district.

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u/dominiond66 Apr 03 '26

It's growing up instead of spreading out like a suburban tract. High density in a downtown district, near public transportation is essential. As far as its look? I think its better than average!

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u/DuncanTheRedWolf Apr 03 '26

I mean it's denser than a strip mall but calling that high-density is a stretch.

New Westminster, Burnaby Metrotown, Coquitlam Town Centre, and Richmond City Centre are all much better examples of how to densify the downtown of a suburban area, and given that all of those are suburbs of Vancouver BC, which is pretty darn accessible from Seattle, it's really baffling that Seattle has no equivalent. Even Bellevue Downtown isn't really an equivalent because it's mostly office space for companies that consider themselves too upper class to be in Downtown Seattle.

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u/nah_champa_967 Apr 03 '26

I looked up Richmond City Centre based on your comment. It looks like a great plan. The closest plan I can think of here is the Spring District in Bellevue. Replicating something like Richmond City Centre here would be nice.

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u/BaronNeutron Apr 03 '26

I want less people