This land handout will bring apartments to Lynnwood light rail station

In a few years, up to 167 low-rent apartments will be built at Lynnwood City Center Station, on Sound Transit’s leftover construction land.

The proposed complex, by nonprofit Housing Hope, includes a medical-dental clinic, child care, the Kindred Kitchen public cafe and job training program, and a behavioral health center including youth services. A tiny tributary of fish-passable Scriber Creek, that’s now in a 512-foot-long pipe, will be daylighted and lined with plants and trees.

Sound Transit will sell the 2.4-acre site, appraised at $4.8 million, for the nominal price of $167,000. The land was a temporary parking lot during years of station construction, while an environmental report dubbed its buried stream “Park-N-Ride Creek.”

Housing Hope will develop one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments in eight-story buildings, for households earning 60% or less of area median income. Currently, those levels in Lynnwood are $55,155 yearly for a single person, or $75,660 for a family of four.

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