A Sound Transit contractor has started to demolish buildings this week along Railroad Avenue North in Kent to make room for a second Kent Station parking garage for Sounder train commuters.<\/p>\n
Puyallup-based Absher Construction began Monday, Aug. 19 to demolish buildings at 621 Railroad Ave. N., 506 Railroad Ave. N., and 502 Railroad Ave. <\/a>N.<\/a>, according to an Aug. 19 Sound Transit news release. The new $62.5 million garage is scheduled to open in 2027.<\/p>\n When complete, a new garage at East James Street and Railroad Avenue North, and a new surface parking lot at Railroad Avenue and Smith Street, will add over 400 new parking stalls at the station to serve Sounder S Line passengers and users of Sound Transit Express and King County Metro services, according to an Aug. 15 Sound Transit news release.<\/p>\n Washington Cold Storage used to operate a warehouse at 621 Railroad Ave. N., the largest piece of property along the road at just more than one-half acre. Sound Transit, mainly funded by local taxes, purchased the property in 2021 for $3.1 million, according to King County property records. Washington Cold Storage bought the property in 1995 for $862,600. The 18,864-square-foot warehouse was built in 1954, according to property records.<\/p>\n Sound Transit paid $575,000 in 2022 for the two properties at 502 and 506 Railroad Ave. N., according to King County property records, which included a boarded-up home, built in 1968 and a mini-garage built in 1954. Both properties are about 0.14 acres and were owned by the same individual, who paid $200,000 for them in 1992.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Work begins Aug. 19 at three addresses along Railroad Avenue North purchased by agency <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":70443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-70442","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\/70442"}],"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\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70442"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=70442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}