Location: 11057 8th Ave NE
Size: 89 workforce housing units and a 6 classroom early learning center residential units
Completion: January 2025

barrientos RYAN is working with Gaard Development to develop workforce housing serving individuals and families making 60-80% of Area Median Income at a unique intergenerational campus. The team is partnering with Refugee Women’s Alliance as the Early Learning Center provider.

The project has always been designed to incorporate an Early Learning facility on the ground floor, as part of the vision to create a mixed income multigenerational campus in partnership with the neighboring Northaven Senior Living facility. The site is in the Northgate area, just blocks from the Kraken Community Iceplex, the redevelopment of the Northgate Mall, and the Northgate Transit Center. The ELC will comprise the majority of the ground floor of the building (8,426 sf) with six classrooms, a lobby, kitchen, laundry room, and offices and meeting space for the site staff. There is outdoor space for the childcare play area, located in the adjacent pocket park owned by Northaven Senior Living.

This innovative, multi-generational campus partnering with Northaven Senior Living leverages shared use of spaces, including the outdoor space, with forward-thinking concepts of intergenerational programming. Such programs include partnering children with elders in the senior housing facility for classes, creative activities, gardening, and games enhancing mutual learning and fostering social and emotional growth. This approach creates “adoptive grandparents” opportunities, mentoring and tutoring, health, fitness, and well-being opportunities bridging generations and communities.

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