Comments on: City Of Burien Wins State Planning Award For Town Square

By: Sherry

Sherry — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:28:33 +0000

An award???? How many other towns have built beautiful, thriving town squares, while Burien was talking and planning for years, with no progress? Kent Station, The Landing in Renton are examples of projects that happened quickly, with a beautiful result, while Burien planned another community meeting to talk about things. More doing, less talking please …

By: jeff

jeff — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:40:53 +0000

Amen!

By: Tcb

Tcb — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:12:32 +0000

I think everyone needs to calm down. How is it affecting you if the retail portion isn’t filling up or the Condos haven’t sold because of the downturn? There are plenty of cool stores and restaurants across the street and down the road in “Olde Burien” (and Seahurst) so untwist your knickers please. I still think a 4 screen theater is better than 10 but if Galaxy wants to spend the money, ok then. The area will eventually grow because more people are moving here. The stores will eventually fill up and so will the Condos. We just need to figure out how to keep it from turning into Bellevue, and also not the Burien of the early 90′s.

By: Jan

Jan — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:20:55 +0000

As I wrote to the Burien City Council on Monday, a theatre and hotel are horrid ideas. The traffic is bad enough now. Once people/businesses actually move into the existing Town Square area, there will be more traffic. If a theatre and hotel get built, it will be total gridlock.

By: janet

janet — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:22:19 +0000

Indianapolis did a ‘build it and they will come back’ in the ’80′s when they built the “Hoosier Dome”, and low and behold the Balitimore Colts pulled a midnight move to Indianapolis, it revitalized what had been until then known throughout the Midwest as “indianoplace”. Now they have a shiny new stadium and a first class football team, NCAA headquarters, world class museums and much more.

By: Rainycity

Rainycity — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:30:19 +0000

I guess maybe Burien was the only town (or city depending on who you talk to*lol*)
spending a bunch of money (they didn`t have) to build things for sale when folks just don`t have money to spend or just not spending it.
I went to the mock-up of the town square last summer and was told then that there only like 4 units left for sale,,
They said the whole top floor had beeen sold etc….hmmmmm

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:05:13 +0000

But wait – it gets better. The city council is already planning on a 10-plex theater in phase two. Hotels are next and then an auto mall.

We do things different in Burien. “Build it and they will come.”

By: feisty

feisty — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:26:24 +0000

5 condos SOLD…..No retail leased….. Phase 2 not started…..AWARD winning ???????