Skyline housing project could bring 79 units to this Bellingham neighborhood
Another multi-family residential building is planned for north Bellingham.
The Skyline at Cordata will be a four-story, 79-unit apartment complex on the southwest corner of Cordata Parkway and Meadowbrook Court.
The project will have 38 studio units, 21 one-bedroom units, 18 two-bedroom units and two three-bedroom units. The front of the development will face Cordata Parkway and all the ground-floor units will have front entries facing the street, according to Bellingham-based AVT Consulting, the permit consultant company for the project.
All units will be market-rate rentals.
The building will have two outdoor community space areas and an indoor gym on the second floor.
A surface parking lot with 101 stalls will be constructed behind the building.
“Out there where it’s a little bit more suburban and a little bit longer distance to services, it makes sense to have this many parking stalls,” AVT’s Ali Taysi said in a telephone interview with The Bellingham Herald.
Some of AVT’s other projects closer to the downtown core are often designed with fewer parking stalls because the walkability, bike infrastructure and access to services are better.
AVT is proposing to fill two small wetlands on the development site in order to accommodate the parking facility and stormwater facilities. But the company is also proposing to preserve two larger wetlands that are also on the site.
“Mitigation for those two fills will include enhancement of the larger wetlands and the buffers of those wetlands,” Taysi said.
Residents in the area around the proposed development site have expressed some concerns about traffic, parking availability and pedestrian connectivity. But not many of the concerns were related to the wetlands.
“Most of the critical areas on site are being preserved so that wasn’t a big trigger point for people,” Taysi said.
Permitting for the Skyline project will likely continue through the rest of the year with a goal to begin construction in 2024.
