Forty-one new apartments opened this month at Creekside Village on Vashon Island, a long-awaited affordable housing development built on a 7.2-acre site just off Gorsuch Road near downtown Vashon. The project includes three two-story residential buildings along with shared community spaces, including a playground and garden, aimed at making renting on the island more accessible for low-income families.
Creekside Village, developed by Blue Ridge Cascade and sponsored by the nonprofit Shelter America Group, is at 16815 95th Lane SW and uses 2.4 acres of the parcel for the residential buildings, according to the Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber. King County says the site is near transit, employment, shopping and essential services. As the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce reports, the finished complex includes 41 affordable units across the three buildings.
King County contributed $8.375 million in county and county-sponsored state infrastructure funding to get the project built, according to a statement from the King County Executive Office. That public money helped offset the high costs of rural construction, which have historically made affordable projects on the island difficult to pencil out.
Who Qualifies, and What It Costs
The finished complex includes 11 one-bedroom, 21 two-bedroom, and nine three-bedroom units, with roughly 70% reserved for households earning up to 50% of the Area Median Income and the remaining 30% set aside for households earning up to 60% of AMI, per the county’s announcement…