Sound Transit Garage Kent

AHBL partnered with WJA Design Collective and Absher Construction to improve access at Kent Station for drivers, pedestrians, transit riders, and bicyclists. AHBL provided civil engineering design and land surveying services for a new parking garage at East James Street and Railroad Avenue North, additional surface parking, and pedestrian and bicycle improvements. The garage, expected to open in 2027, will add 464 parking spaces. AHBL and the Absher/WJA team were also awarded a contract for a King County Metro bus layover facility across from the garage, featuring a staff comfort station, two staff and maintenance parking stalls, and twelve bus parking stalls.

The project is being delivered in five phases: early site preparation including demolition, utility relocation, and drainage vault installation; site utilities and below-ground garage construction; above-ground garage work; construction of the KCM layover facility; and offsite improvements such as utility upgrades, drainage control, modified intersections, signage, striping, and a new surface parking lot at E Smith Street and Railroad Avenue North. Design of the southern parking area will be coordinated with King County Metro’s I-Line improvements under a separate project.

Renderings: WJA Design Collaborative

Teaming Partners

• Owner: Sound Transit
• Architect: WJA Design Collaborative
• Contractor: Absher Construction