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Town Center at Lake Forest Park

Field	Value
name	Town Center at Lake Forest Park
logo	Town Center at Lake Forest Park logo.svg
image	Lake Forest Park Towne Centre panorama, 2017-08-16.jpg
caption	Panoramic view, 2017
location	Lake Forest Park, Washington, U.S.
coordinates
address	17171 NE Bothell Way
opening_date	October 7, 1964
renovated_date	1988–1989
previous_names	Forest Park Shopping Center, Lake Forest Park Towne Center
developer	Farwest Properties
owner	Merlone Geier Partners
floor_area	250,130 sqft
floors	2
website

Town Center at Lake Forest Park (formerly Lake Forest Park Towne Centre) is a shopping center that also serves as the community hub for the city of Lake Forest Park, Washington. It is located on the eastern side of Lake Forest Park, on the western shore of Lake Washington in a suburb of Seattle on Bothell Way NE beside City Hall. The southeast side of the center abuts the Burke-Gilman Trail.

Town Center at Lake Forest Park is anchored by Third Place Books, Albertson's grocery store, Rite Aid, Ross Dress for Less, and Planet Fitness and features almost 250000 sqft of gross leasable area on its 18 acres. Third Place Books, a general interest bookseller, is one of the tenants of the center and serves as a community center for Lake Forest Park hosting free public events and other community activities. The bookstore provides access to print on demand books via the Espresso Book Machine.

Each Sunday, starting in May and ending in October, the Third Place Commons Farmers Market is held in the LFPTC parking lot.

History

The Forest Park Shopping Center opened on October 7, 1964, with 200,000 sqft of retail space across two levels. Major tenants at that time included Rhodes Brothers, Pay 'n Save, and Albertsons. The shopping center was developed by Farwest Properties, an Olympia-based company, at a cost of $3million, on 20 acre of land at the corner of State Route 522 and State Route 104. Lake Forest Park was an unincorporated community at the time but pursued cityhood in response to the mall's construction to prevent further commercial development. A branch of the King County Library System opened at the mall in 1974 using space leased by the city government.

A renovation and expansion was approved by the city government in 1987 with an exemption to the municipal height limit. Construction began the following year but was delayed by three months following the discovery of unexpected issues with the existing structure. It was renamed the Lake Forest Park Towne Center and reopened in September 1989 after it had been expanded to 243,500 sqft with 49 stores; Albertsons also announced plans to expand their store. Several vacant retail spaces on the second floor were later replaced by Third Place Books, a bookstore with a food court and community stage that opened in 1998.

The mall was acquired by Madison Marquette in July 2006 and later renamed to the Town Center at Lake Forest Park. A smaller renovation was completed in 2011 and included the addition of a Ross Dress for Less and a Planet Fitness. The mall was sold to Merlone Geier Partners in 2014 for $37million.

References

Lake Forest Park Towne Centre, http://www.lakeforestparktownecentre.com/go/dirlisting.cfm?fl=all, Retrieved 2011-03-01.
City of Lake Forest Park, http://www.cityoflfp.com/community/default.html, Retrieved 2011-24-01.
(June 7, 1964). "Center Steel Work Complete". [[The Seattle Times]].
(October 6, 1964). "Trees Form Skyline at Forest Park Shopping Center". The Seattle Times.
Bergsman, Jerry. (May 13, 1987). "Council to discuss facelift". The Seattle Times.
Aweeka, Charles. (August 22, 1984). "'Shopping Center Library' is a well kept secret". The Seattle Times.
Monson, Suzanne. (February 15, 1989). "Work resumes at Towne Centre". The Seattle Times.
Monson, Suzanne. (August 9, 1989). "Albertson's plans major expansion at new shopping mall". The Seattle Times.
Sommer, Constance. (April 14, 1998). "Honey Bear Bakery now a Sher thing". [[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]].
(November 9, 1998). "Bookstore with eateries ready at Lake Forest Park". Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
"Portfolio: Town Center at Lake Forest Park". [[Madison Marquette]].
(October 25, 2010). "Ross to open at LFP Towne Centre; other retail changes". Shoreline Area News.
(October 21, 2014). "Lake Forest Park retail sold for $37M". [[Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce]].

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