Council to consider selling part of Tukwila Village for new King County library

By STEVE HUNTER
Tukwila Reporter Reporter
June 25, 2012 · 3:55 PM

The Tukwila City Council will consider Monday night a proposed deal to sell a portion of the city's Tukwila Village property for $500,000 to the King County Library System to build a 10,000-square-foot library.

Staff and from the city and King County Library System reached a proposed deal that the council will consider at a Special Meeting following the Committee of the Whole Meeting, which starts at 7 p.m. Monday.

The property is at the northeast corner of the intersection of Tukwila International Boulevard and South 144th Street.

The overall project covers 6 acres of city-owned property. The city hopes to turn the area into a mixed use development that will include a library, apartments, a neighborhood police resource center, retail, restaurants, public meeting space and an outdoor plaza.

Tukwila Village Development Associates is the developer of the proposed Tukwila Village.

For more information, go to www.ci.tukwila.wa.us/tukwilavillage.html.

Contact Tukwila Reporter Reporter Steve Hunter at shunter@tukwilareporter.com or 253-872-6600, ext. 5052.

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