Kenmore Public Buildings Play Musical Chairs
Posted by the Kenmore Crow | Filed under Construction
Part of the whole master plan for Kenmore in the coming years involves moving the Kenmore branch of the King County Library from the trailer home it currently resides in on 73rd Ave into the building currently occupied by the Post Office on 181st. Under this plan, the Post Office would naturally have to move somewhere. The current concept is for the Post Office to move into the existing City Hall building once city government moves into the fancy new City Hall building on 68th St.
That’s quite a few different public organizations that all have to coordinate and work together to make everything work out as planned, and there has been some (justifiable) doubt as to whether everything will indeed come together in the end.
Here’s an update on the latest status of the Post Office’s part of this scheme, courtesy of KBIN:
The City and The USPS are now negotiating the fine print and details of an initial five year lease/rental agreement for space, 1985 sq. ft., in the current City Hall.
The agreement also acknowledges that at some point the Post Office could move into a space to be developed and owned by Urban Partners. The proposed lease terms, initiated by the Post Office, while still in review form, is now back in the hands of the Facility Division of the USPS Western States Office in Denver. The initial five year terms are potentially followed by five year increments up to 2041. We are anticipating final agreement by the end of October, if not sooner.
The main thing I’d personally like to see out of a new Kenmore Post Office would be the addition of an Automated Postal Center, so we can actually mail packages any time of day rather than only during business hours.
Tags: city hall, Construction, KCLS, library, Urban Partners, USPS
4 Responses to “Kenmore Public Buildings Play Musical Chairs”
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The only saving grace in this fire drill is that the Library won’t move until it has a place to move too.
What’s got me thinking is why are they pushing out all the local businesses from those building right now? We’re lost a book shop and we’re now losing a comic book shop! We’re losing our cultural icons from this city!
At least we have Ostroms.
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Dang, Corner Comics is closing? Are they moving to a new location, or just disappearing for good? I will definitely look into this…
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They are moving to… wait for it… Kirkland!
12049 124th Ave NE, south of NE 124th Street on the east side of 405, South of the Totem Lake strip mall.
Tis sad.
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