Update: On January 20th, 2023, the City of Kirkland announced that Google will not be proceeding with the sale of the Lee Johnson site and proposed development plan.
The tech giant’s development concept is rapidly growing Kirkland’s most ambitious proposal
To close out The Urbanist’s series on Kirkland’s recent and ongoing developments, we saved the biggest development planned for the city for last. So far, with articles on Totem Lake, Downtown Kirkland and Rose Hill, and the smaller development nodes, we’ve documented over 8,100 housing units, over 2 million square feet of commercial and institution space, and over 15,000 parking stalls that have been constructed since 2019, are under construction, or in permitting/planning. Google’s Kirkland Urban campus has already been a major component of this parking and commercial square feet, but if developed to its greatest extent, Google’s next campus project is set to increase the amount of new commercial space in Kirkland by over 60%.
