City reaches verbal agreement on Civic Square project

Back in May, I reported that that the city had extended its deadline to June 30 for reaching agreement with Bosa Development on the details of the Civic Square development project — i.e. the big hole in the ground just west of City Hall. A spokesperson for the city’s Finance and Administrative Services Department told me this afternoon that the parties reached a verbal agreement before the deadline and are now hashing out a written agreement: We did reach a verbal agreement on all major points by the June 30 deadline, though we cannot share the deal terms publicly until …

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What’s going on with the Civic Square project?

Right across the street from City Hall is the “hole in the ground,” aka the Civic Square project.  After years of starts, stops, scandals and recessions, last October Bosa Development signed an MOU with the City of Seattle and Triad Development to take over the project, pending the signing of a new development agreement with the city. Their intent was to have the next agreement signed by December 31, and Bosa would begin construction by June 30, 2018. Since then, silence. What’s up?

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