{"id":38786,"date":"2019-01-28T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/crane-over-kent\/"},"modified":"2019-01-28T13:19:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T21:19:30","slug":"crane-over-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/crane-over-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Crane over Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crews continue to work in Kent on phase I of the new upscale Marquee on Meeker Apartments under construction on the former city-owned Riverbend par 3 golf course.<\/p>\n

A crane is on the site at 2030 W. Meeker St.,<\/a> to help build a six-story building. The first phase includes 14 three-story buildings and public access through the complex to the Green River Trail.<\/p>\n

When complete, the project will have 492 apartments with 21 three-story residential buildings and two six-story mixed-use buildings that will feature 12,000 square feet of retail space that developers hope will attract restaurants and other businesses. Auburn-based Landmark Development Group and HAL Real Estate broke ground in May on the project.<\/p>\n

No rent prices have been released yet, but 288 apartments are part of the initial phase scheduled to be completed by the first quarter of 2020.<\/p>\n

Developers are targeting people in their 20s and 30s to rent their high-end, urban-style apartments. The first units are expected to be ready in the spring to rent and more units will be ready to occupy as buildings are finished throughout 2019.<\/p>\n

The City Council approved the sale of the former city-owned property for $10.5 million. The council voted to sell the par 3 course to eliminate the Riverbend Golf Complex fund’s debt of about $4 million and to spend about $6 million to improve the 18-hole course across the street from the former par 3 course. The golf complex has averaged losses of about $300,000 per year, according to city documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Six-story building going up as part of Marquee on Meeker Apartments <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":38787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-38786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38786"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=38786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}