Within a mile of Shoreline North Station, about 1,700 homes have been built or planned since 2019.
When Sound Transit begins service on the Lynnwood Link extension on August 30th, the stations will directly serve three more cities in the Puget Sound. Shoreline will be receiving two of those stations and has prepared zoning and land use reforms allowing their station areas to transform into dense neighborhoods. The city primed its Shoreline North Station for a unique opportunity to create an urban band between two growing sectors of its city. (Note, we covered development around Shoreline South Station earlier this week.)
When The Urbanist covered Shoreline housing development in 2021, our project list included a densifying North City that is soon to be home to a new light rail station. The neighborhood has historically been a small commercial center in eastern Shoreline, but thoughtful planning spurred a gradual addition of multifamily residential to the neighborhood two decades ago.
North City makes the Shoreline North station area stand out on the 1 line extension by sandwiching the station between a growing neighborhood node and the Aurora corridor, which has also seen rapid growth recently. Development around the station will create a new dense linkage between the two urban sections of the neighborhood.
