Kent/Des Moines station

Kent/Des Moines is a proposed station on Sound Transit's Federal Way Link Extension, part of the Link Light Rail system. It is to be located in western Kent, Washington near Highline College. It is scheduled to open in 2024 as part of the extension of Central Link to Federal Way Transit Center.

This article is about the future light rail station. For the commuter rail station, see Kent station (Sound Transit).

Location

Kent/Des Moines station, the working name for the station, will be an elevated structure above 30th Avenue South, east of State Route 99 (Pacific Highway) near its intersection with State Route 516 (Kent-Des Moines Road). The station would be located adjacent to Highline College and have a 500-stall parking garage and several temporary surface parking lots that would be redeveloped after the extension to Federal Way opens. The area around the station is planned to be redeveloped with transit-oriented mixed-use development under the "Envision Midway" plan proposed by the city of Kent.[1][2]

A shopping center to the south of the proposed station was considered for the line's operations and maintenance facility, but the Kent city government passed a zoning ordinance in January 2019 to prevent its use—in part because the shopping center includes a recently opened Dick's Drive-In.[3][4]

References
  1. "Sound Transit Board identifies preferred alternative for light rail extension to Kent/Des Moines, Federal Way" (Press release). Sound Transit. July 23, 2015. Retrieved April 30, 2016.
  2. Hunter, Steve (October 29, 2015). "Kent light rail station proposed for east of Pacific Highway". Kent Reporter. Retrieved April 30, 2016.
  3. Hunter, Steve (January 17, 2019). "Kent City Council opposes light rail yard at Lowe's, Dick's Drive-In sites". Kent Reporter. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
  4. Krell, Alexis (January 17, 2019). "A Dick's Drive-In just opened in Kent. Sound Transit might take it away". The News Tribune. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
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