When we last covered new development coming to the Roosevelt Station area, the Link light rail Northgate extension was still over two years away from opening. Back then, Roosevelt Station was already on the outer perimeter of a growing cluster of old and new mid-rise apartment buildings. For the past decade development in the neighborhood has been red hot with thousands of apartments opened and opening soon.
However, the pace of new construction and permitting could now begin to slow with many mid-rise buildings completed, a scarcity of underdeveloped sites, and static mid-rise zoning. With readily developable land decreasing, midrise construction and permitting has continued to spread to the outer stretches of Roosevelt’s limited midrise zoning. Over 1,100 units have been completed between 2015 and September of 2019 when The Urbanist published its last update on development in Roosevelt.
In addition to the light rail station, transportation infrastructure is also slowly improving in the neighborhood with the paving project on the other side of the high school coming in addition to other improvements, such as safer walking and biking infrastructure brought to NE 65th Street through its Vision Zero project. With Roosevelt Station opening within a few couple of days, let’s check in on the construction ongoing in the neighborhood.
