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The Des Moines Creek Business Park – The Right Development at the Right Time January 24, 2018adminProjectsNo Comments After more than 2 decades of frustration and disappointment, an abandoned ghost town south of SeaTac Airport is being reborn.  Development of the Des Moines Creek Business Park (DMCBP) is well underway.  Soundview Consultants LLC provided wetland

The new Des Moines Creek Business Park (DMCBP) is the $125 million redevelopment of a site that spent decades as a modern ghost town.  For more than twenty years the site was an abandoned residential area containing nothing but exposed foundations and empty asphalt and concrete streets.  The area is now home to K2 Sports,

(As amended December 19, 2017. Goals are intended to reflect attainment in 2037, unless explicitly noted otherwise.) Strategy 1: Position the Puget Sound region as a premier international logistics hub Objectives: 1.   Grow seaport annual container volume to more than 3.5 million TEUs. 2.   Structure the Port of Seattle’s relationship with Washington ports to optimize infrastructure

Boxed in by loud vehicles, plane traffic, and their fumes, its residents just want to breathe easy. By Hayat Norimine 12/19/2017 at 8:00am Published in the January 2018 issue of Seattle Met From the rain-soaked garden where a Spanish-speaking mother and her children sat on an early November morning, whiffs of rose and lavender reached

Plans for Expanding SeaTac Leave Me Scratching My Head by Scott MackenzieLast updated December 18, 2017 I’m not an airport manager, architect, or anyone qualified to determine the best way to build an airport. But some of the plans for expanding Seattle’s airport strike me as especially odd. The problem is the port authority believes passenger

The 3-year transition period for state and local governments to come into compliance with the FAA’s Policy Concerning the Use of Airport Revenues; Proceeds from Taxes on Aviation Fuel; expired on December 8, 2017. The FAA will consider extension of the compliance date on a case by case basis for good cause. Read the Reminder of

By Jack Mayne After weeks of discussion, haggling and worry over the continuing and growing effects of the increasing impacts of Sea-Tac Airport on the thousands of SeaTac city residents who live next to and under the runways, the City and Port of Seattle have reached an agreement (download PDF here). Both SeaTac City Manager Joe Scorcio and

The attorney general of Maryland announced Tuesday that Kaplan Kirsch and Rockwell has been chosen to pursue action against the Federal Aviation Administration over its NextGen flight paths over Baltimore-Washington International, Thurgood Marshall Airport and Reagan National Airport.

Educating Voters Environmental Priorities Coalition Lobby & Advocacy A series on protecting all communities from dangerous pollution. For 50 years, Washington Environmental Council has set our sights on a cleaner, brighter future and charted a path to get there. In 1988, WEC campaigned to pass Initiative 97 (commonly called the Model Toxics Control Act or

By Jack Mayne Des Moines city government is questioning a large new traveler holding room at the south end of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport because city residents are constantly challenged by noise and health impacts. The Port of Seattle had said the facility was a not a significant structure, but the city objects and wants more