EVERETT — Three new apartment sites want to sprout around the city.
One wants to be built at the corner of 16th Street and East Marine View Drive in the Delta Neighborhood. Called the Riverview Apartments, it is a low-income development that stirred neighbors.
Another demolishes the shuttered Kmart site at 8102 Evergreen Way (corner of 79th Place SE and Evergreen Way) to put in an apartment complex with about 360 units.
A third complex, at 10825 Evergreen Way, would bring in 322 apartment units of senior housing for 55+ residents. It would be one building five stories tall. Dominium, a Minnesota company with apartment complexes scattered across the country, proposed the development. It would be the company’s first foray in Washington State.
This development would take up 5 acres and replace a used car lot and two vacant parcels. It would sit across the road from Avocados Mexican Restaurant. 112th Street SE is a few blocks south.
The proposed Riverview Apartments in the Delta Neighborhood would put 201 units at a northern corner of Jackson Park. Its original plan was to include 45 units for supportive housing services for clients, but in September withdrew that portion of the plan. Neighbors in the Delta Neighborhood had reservations about these plans.
The apartment building would still be classified as affordable housing. It will house people who earn 60 percent of the area median income.
DevCo Apartments, a privately held real estate investment company based in Bellevue, is creating the site.
The site plan for repurposing the Kmart site shows the complex would have five buildings up to six stories tall that will house a total grouping of 359 units. They’d be two to four-bedroom apartments built in wood-frame buildings, with about 500 parking stalls.
The Everett Kmart closed in 2014; the dialysis center and the McDonald’s at the site, built in 2000, are unaffected.
DevCo Apartments is also building this complex.
DevCo, for example, in 2013 created The District Apartments off of Bothell-Everett Highway, which similarly was laid out with multiple wood-frame buildings with parking scattered around the site. DevCo also built the Axis Apartments on Highway 99 just south of Airport Road in Everett.
Other major developments
Compass Health last week announced a new housing center to assist homeless people at the corner of Lombard Avenue and 33rd Street.
Compass Health has newly filed a land-use application for the first phase of the project, 82 units of permanent supportive housing. The agency hopes to break ground later this year. The second phase is to replace its old Broadway center with a new one.
Permanent supportive housing typically is used to help transition prople from homelessness into a stable place to live. It’s called the Housing First model.
Compass Health’s center will “integrate affordable housing with treatment and support services for people with chronic behavioral health issues,” the agency said in a news release. The ground floor will include more than 10,000 square feet for programs to support residents, along with other mental health and homelessness services, including peer support, homeless outreach and housing stabilization.
Two other major developments already under construction are Catholic Community Services’ supportive housing building off of Berkshire Drive and Housing Hope’s HopeWorks Station II mixed-use building off of Broadway.
Catholic Community Services’ site is a four-story, 65-unit building tucked behind the corner of Evergreen Way and Pecks Drive. It will have enveloping care for its residents, who were chronically homeless. Last fall, Catholic Community Services said it hopes to have residents move in July 1 this year.
The project applies the Housing First model to addressing homelessness.
HopeWorks Station II, at 3315 Broadway, is also under construction. It features 65 affordable apartments, including 15 for veterans and 15 for homeless youth, and will house social enterprise job training. It is slated to open this fall.
HopeWorks Station I next door houses social enterprise programs that provide jobs to homeless and low-income individuals.
Cocoon House, meanwhile, just opened a center on Colby Avenue that includes 40 transitional beds. Ten are for homeless under-18 teens and 10 are for homeless young adults aged 18 to 24.
