SvR Design - Projects, High Point

High Point Redevelopment

Chief Sealth Trail

Kirkland LID Feasibility Study

Kitsap SEED

Seattle Civic Center

North Cascades Environmental Learning Center

Growing Vine

Winslow Way

Blume Yale Avenue Campus

High Point Redevelopment
Seattle, WA

The High Point Redevelopment is Seattle’s first green community; High Point represents a new model for future urban and neighborhood developments. The project is among the first in the United States to integrate new urbanism, eco-friendly homes, and new technologies in drainage design. When construction concludes in 2009, the project will have replaced a 716-unit low-income housing project built in 1942 with approximately 1,600 new dwelling units in a wide variety of building types. The units will consist of low income, senior, and market-rate housing.

As High Point’s principal infrastructure planner and designer, SvR provided the civil engineering and landscape architecture for the new street grid, undergrounding of utilities, and the site utility infrastructure system, including the natural drainage system, for the 120-acre, 34-block site.

The natural drainage system includes: raingardens, grassy and vegetated infiltration swales with amended soils, conveyance swales, two miles of pervious sidewalks, and the first public porous pavement street in Washington State, 32nd Ave. NW. This system helps to improve water quality in the nearby Longfellow Creek by reverting the site, 10% of the Longfellow Creek basin, to pasture conditions.

Winner:
2007	Vision 2020 award, Puget Sound Regional Council
2007	Sustainable Merit Award for Excellence in Concrete Construction, WACA
2007	Urban Land Institute Award of Excellence
2007	Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence – Silver Award
2007	Outstanding Project Award – Site Development ASCE Seattle Section
2007	Outstanding Major Project Award – Site Development ASCE Region 8
2007	Urban Land Institute Global Awards for Excellence

Rendering by Mithun

High Point pond during 100-year storm event.

Additional High Point Resources:
High Point Natural Drainage Technical Standards

High Point Right of Way and Operations Maintenance Guidelines