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| Artist's conception of Acoya Richmond Beach |
| 8/20/2025 | PLN25-0077; NOA Post and Site Plan | Notice of Application | Project/Permit Number: PLN25-0077 Location: 18840 8th Ave NW and 600 NW Richmond Beach Rd (#012603-9058 and -9056) Project Description: Adjustment of lot lines within the existing shopping center in order to support development of a 230-unit assisted living facility w/ below grade parking (130 stalls), demolition of a vacant building, and demolition of a portion of the existing shopping center Comment Deadline: Friday, September 5, 2025 Project Manager: Alicia Halberg, AICP, 206-801-2552, or ahalberg@shorelinewa.gov |
Application has been made to adjust lot lines and proceed with demolition of buildings at the Shops at Richmond Beach.
One of the buildings is vacant, but the other houses two very popular businesses - the Santa Fe Cafe and Beach House Greetings.
The goal is to build a 230 unit assisted living facility with 130 stalls of below grade parking - the Acoya Richmond Beach.
Way too big and not enough parking. People will be parking all over the QFC lot and the roadway. Assisted Living doesn't mean unable to drive a car.
ReplyDeleteI have very mixed feelings about this large project. While it would be great to have the long-vacant property developed, the size of this assisted living facility will be out of scale for the area and losing both Santa Fe Cafe and Beach House Greetings would be terrible. Wonder if they could re-locate in the refurbished building down the hill, across from Blackbird Cafe?
ReplyDeleteIt is already a challenge to drive in and out of the QFC lot. I fear it will be a perpetual traffic jam with the additional traffic created by this facility. Why there? It's our neighborhood center, and myself and many others enjoy the handiness of a postal substation, a lovely gift shop, and great restaurant. It will negatively impact our neighborhood! I object strongly to this project, please listen to the people who live here!
ReplyDeleteAs mentioned directly to my city council, the renovation should carry a replacement to the retail shops that help make this area a wonderful place to live and work.
ReplyDeleteIt will be interesting to see how the developer has responded to the flood of comment letters regarding bulk and scale, lack of retail and many other concerns regarding this project
ReplyDeletethey are too big. They really don’t care.
DeleteI'm so sorry to hear about this plan and wonder how the city will take care of owners of the current shops including the nail salon who help to make this a very congenial community. Far better that it be built on the other side of the street near what used to be Riteaid.
ReplyDeleteIf those two businesses were integrated within the facility that would be great; the Beach gift shop in particular is an anchor store and icon of the area and should be given space at all costs in the new facility to encourage community interest in the assisted living facility.
ReplyDeleteIt’s really disappointing that they are considering demolishing two businesses to make room for this development. My family and I frequent those businesses often and it would be a huge blow to not have them there. Having great shops nearby is one of the reasons we decided to move to this neighborhood of richmond beach. I really hope the developers can find another way to plan this development so that it doesn’t demolish two beloved businesses.
ReplyDeleteDo the citizens of Shoreline have any say in this? Will our comments be heard?
ReplyDeletePeople who live in the area already have difficulty getting in and out of the QFC lot, how can you add more traffic? It will wreck our only community center!
We LOVE the BeachHouse gift store and PO. We love the Mexican restaurant.
We DON”T want this out of scale monstrosity in our Neighborhood!
How dare "you" propose this project and change the landscape and destroy our quality of life! Have you no shame?
This is right out of Trump’s playbook, the wealthy get to overpower the regular people.
I am an angry citizen of Shoreline,
Julie Schaffer
I was with you until you couldn’t help but make this President Trump’s fault. And, guess what? The city has already decided. Community “feedback” is the last thing they really seek or want. The city sees money signs in new taxes. That’s the bottom line. Attend a council meeting and they barely look up from their phones. Their attitudes are: pound sand (down at the beach). Traffic will be a nightmare and services we’re used to will disappear. But a developer with big bucks has prevailed.
DeleteYes, the city will get money. The developer get money and the owner will get money. So what do we get? We don’t get anything. So the best way to handle this I feel is to not be warm and welcoming To the people that come to the assisted living building. Let’s let them know that we don’t like them that they shouldn’t be here and we’re not gonna watch out for them And we’re not goi g to talk to them that way maybe they’ll go away and the building will go down and it’ll be a big park.
Deletehttps://www.djc.com/news/re/12161111.html
ReplyDeleteThis has been in the works for years
As a citizen of the highlands I say this is a poor choice of our dollars at use. People have died recently crossing 185th and Aurora, let’s make a bridge for pedestrians to cross such a busy street
ReplyDeleteGood luck getting city council to actually listen (especially Scully, Robertson and Roberts) and then consider your feedback. They push their agenda and their plans. They act like its Shoreline's responsibility to solve all the regions housing problems while other areas are more intelligent about managing growth. This building is too big and will stand out like a sore thumb. Adding insult to injury Shoreline is already a pain for businesses to open here so shutting down two well established businesses makes perfect sense.
ReplyDeleteWay too large for the property. It ruins the character of the residential area.
ReplyDeleteRemember Grace Nails is there too, it’s a fabulous nail salon that has many local customers. I like that they don’t do acrylic nails and the shop doesn’t smell like chemicals. It’s hard to find a place like that!
ReplyDeleteWhy not go across the street to the old Rite Aid and build there?
ReplyDeleteSure, you guys provided the space, but we created the community. “More than just a space, it’s where life’s happens”. Opening page of Lee and Assoc. webpage, the property owners. Not buying it. Give credit where credit is do:)
ReplyDeleteRichmond Beach Road and 5th annot take the extra traffic a building like that would bring. It not only looks like an eyesore, the loss of Beach House gifts and the post office is going to be bad for the neighborhood. Disgusting.
ReplyDeleteTake a look around. Growth happens to all of us in many different neighborhoods not just Richmond Beach.
ReplyDeleteI agree that this building is out of place, but resistance is futile with the current city council. An whilst it's unfortunate that this is coming to Richmond Beach, I'd like to suggest that you take a look at what's happened east of Aurora where our neighborhoods have been under threat from rampant development for some time now. Perhaps you should share some of the burden your less wealthy neighbors have been dealing with.
ReplyDeleteWhy are people getting so worked up about an assisted living facility? It's just a building with a bunch of old people who need some help with day to day life. It's not like they're building a steel mill in the middle of town.
ReplyDeleteIt’s a slippery slope slope on the way to the steel mill…
DeleteThe community has a strong opposition to this plan, if the community counts for anything. There's so little Shoreline in Shoreline anymore.
ReplyDelete230 Units is way over what the space/lot can reasonable support visually. The scale of the building will dwarf surround buildings/structures. This proposed buildings explicitly ignore the form, proportion, composition, scale and character of surrounding residental and commercial buildings.
ReplyDeleteI live in Richmond Village Condo, I am most definitely NOT looking forward to this additional.
Just because you can does not mean you should. I think this project needs to be scaled back to a more reasonable number of units.
Very disappointing that the City of Shoreline for even approved this beast of a building to begin with. Prioritizing what a developer wants over maintaining the character and integrity of our neighborhood.
Let's set aside for a moment the enormous eyesore that the facility will be, and how certain members of the Council are unresponsive to public concerns.
ReplyDeleteRichmond Beach Road was dieted several years ago by the brain trust who were running this town at the time. What will happen when a resident of this facility has a medical emergency? We now have less road capacity for an ambulance to get a critically ill patient to the hospital.
Oh well, I guess "20 Is Plenty" when Grandma is suffering cardiac arrest.
Medical emergency? Great point…..the traffic is crazy in the afternoon. Oh well, maybe they can use the bike lanes!
ReplyDeleteThis project is way too big for the Richmond Beach neighborhood. Traffic at QFC, Wells Fargo Bank, Puget Sound Kidney Center, two gasoline stations, John's Dry Cleaners and all the neighboring stores would worsen the traffic woes created when a walkway was installed in a sloppy fashion from Puget Sound Kidney Center to Wells Fargo Bank & QFC.
ReplyDeleteIt angers me that Santa Fe Cafe, Postal Service housed in Beach House Greetings will be destroyed without thinking about it how important they are for our community. As an effort to be a good neighbor, should have to pay for relocation of these services.
It seems 230 units with only 130 parking spots is one the first problems. The height of the building should be no higher than 4-5 stories. We already have so many new high rise homes that have been built in the last 2 years in Shoreline along the Aurora corridor and we don't need high rise in Richmond Beach. Having something this high destroys the quaintness of our neighborhood.
It seems to me that this project puts us between a rock and a hard place. An assisted living facility is needed, but the building planned is way too big to jam into the space it will occupy. The attendant traffic problems will be unmanageable. This project needs tight scrutiny and planning so that it is win for the community, not a loss. Hopefully our elected officials will have the foresight and wisdom to ensure that this happens.
ReplyDeleteNow the speeding traffic on nw 180th street will be even worse :(
ReplyDeleteThis project certainly exposes some glaring discrepancies between what we SAY we value and our actions. We say we support minority and female owned businesses, but that describes 100% of the businesses being torn down.
ReplyDeleteWe say we support infrastructure and well planned improvements, but we are installing 230 units with 130 parking places? If only 50% of the residents have cars, that leaves everyone fighting over 15 spots. Maybe nobody really visits grandma anyway?
And drainage? They can’t even keep the West entrance of the parking lot paved due to the high water table and poor drainage.