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Kirkland reviews concept plans for Kraken Iceplex community center; council presses for clarity on ownership, operations and parking
Summary
Design team presented three concept layouts for a second-floor community center adjacent to a proposed Kraken Iceplex; council members pressed for clarity on tenant improvements, ownership, elevator redundancy and parking impacts as the project remains a hypothetical partnership.
Parks Director Lynn Zwagstrom introduced OPSIS Architecture’s concept work on a potential community center that would be co-located with a proposed Kraken Iceplex at the Houghton Park & Ride site. “Throughout all of 2024 the city has been doing a due diligence process — and that has resulted in us putting out an RFQ for an architectural firm to do a concept plan,” Zwagstrom said, noting the work is based on a guiding framework established by Resolution 56405 and that no agreements are in place with the Seattle Kraken. OPSIS described three concept iterations and recommended a preferred plan for a roughly 12,000-square-foot building footprint with about 10,000 square feet of usable tenant-improvement space on the second level for community programming. The team highlighted a flexible…
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