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Architecture & Engineering


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 By Clair Enlow
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July 23, 2003

Lynnwood shows there's life after suburbia

  • Lynnwood’s pursuit of a vibrant city center will be built on concepts that have been honed and tested in other suburban cities.
    • By CLAIR ENLOW
    Special to the Journal

    Lynnwood is lining up the pieces of a puzzle that will put it on the map of best places to live and work around the Puget Sound.

    All the city needs is a "there" there -- those sights that say you’ve arrived and it’s time to slow down, look around and maybe stay for a while. That’s not easy to imagine now, driving among the forest of signs, acres of pavement and the big and small retail boxes set way off the street.


     
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