Verdantas provided civil engineering, land use planning, landscape architecture, and surveying services for this unique mixed-use transit-oriented development (TOD) along the I-5 corridor in Mountlake Terrace, WA. Verdantas worked closely with the owner, architect, and city staff to develop a Master Site Plan to connect the housing and retail development to adjacent neighborhoods through pedestrian-friendly streets and trails. The site plan showcased open spaces seamlessly integrating the natural environment with the built community.

Verdantas prepared construction plans, including designs for a new city road, water and sewer mainline extensions, storm drainage, detention, and water quality improvements utilizing low-impact development techniques, site grading, landscape, and irrigation. The Terrace Station community consists of three distinctive mixed-use buildings with the prominent Sound Transit light rail elevated track as a backdrop. The built-out property contains 650 residential apartment units and 100,000 SF consumer-oriented retail space.

Verdantas was instrumental in designing the main road, Van Ry Boulevard, a tree-lined road corridor providing vehicle access to the Terrace Station development and pedestrian access to the nearby light rail station. The road design features a stormwater bioswale in the center of the street, conveying stormwater down a cascading planted median.

The landscape design elements for the project included:

• Street-level planting with planted medians
• An emphasis on retail frontage and a public pedestrian plaza
• Raised planters
• Site furnishings
• Courtyard-level and roof-top planting/irrigation design

Project Features:

• Master Site Plan
• Civil Engineering Design
• Roadway Design
• Water & Sewer Extensions
• LID Storm Drainage Improvements
• Site Grading
• Retaining Walls
• Sidewalks
• Stormwater Design
• Bioswale and Bioretention
• Landscape Design
• Urban and Hardscape Design
• Rooftop and Courtyard Landscape
• Land Surveying
• Bridge Structural Analysis