Since 2021, builders have planned or constructed 3,087 homes around the South Shoreline Station.
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, Mountlake Terrace, and Lynnwood. Those cities each prepared land use reforms to transform their station areas into dense neighborhoods. On the eve of light rail’s opening, we’re checking in on their progress at creating new urban centers.
When The Urbanist last covered development in Shoreline in 2021, we focused on the tremendous urban transformation happening along the RapidRide E corridor on Aurora Avenue. At the time, we had noted that such a transformation was still in its infancy around the light rail station areas, but we did have a small list of projects in the Shoreline South Station/148th Street Station area. That list has since grown, and the area has rapidly materialized with new apartment buildings built and under construction.
