Brookfield, Toll Brothers present Lakepointe master plan; Lake Point Boulevard expected to open next spring

Developers from Brookfield Properties and Toll Brothers gave the Covington City Council a detailed update July 22 on the Lakepointe master plan, saying major roadway work is nearly finished and that commercial leasing and home-building phases will roll out over multiple years.

Brookfield project manager Scott Jones told the council that Lake Point Boulevard is “pretty close, probably 90% complete with the roadway,” and that the developer plans to transfer the road to the city next spring and open it to traffic once seasonal construction is complete. He said the earliest the team would submit site-development permit applications would be next year and that “it’s at least 2 years from now before we’re probably going vertical in construction,” meaning visible commercial and large-scale building is not imminent.

The update combined marketing and design details, construction status and early tenant-recruitment efforts for a commercial town center. Jones and other presenters described branding work led by the agency Drake Cooper (entered in the Cascadia Creative Awards) and a placemaking partnership with CenterCal to market and lease the town-center parcels.

Why this matters: Lakepointe is a multi-phase master plan on land adjacent to King County parkland and will add housing, trails and commercial space that will affect traffic, parks and…