High Point Neighborhood

Chief Sealth Trail

Seattle Pedestrian Master Plan

Thornton Creek Water Quality Channel

Blume Yale Avenue Campus

Potrero Hill

Growing Vine Street

Winslow Way

City of Fife Low Impact Development Ordinance

In collaboration with NBBJ Architecture, SvR has been providing integrated landscape architecture and civil engineering for the Yale Avenue Campus in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. This three-block development will use a variety of green infrastructure strategies to make a functional, flexible, and aesthetic landscape by controlling stormwater discharge into Lake Union.

Along Yale Avenue, a water-quality treatment swale is proposed that will attenuate and treat stormwater from the adjacent roadway and improve the retail experience for adjacent store owners. At the end of Yale, a woonerf will act as a pedestrian plaza that creates a focal space for the adjacent building. This expansive public space uses stormwater channels to articulate the space and create a rain garden enclosure that blocks the traffic noise and views to the I-5 on ramp.