Aurora bypass lane provides access to businesses marooned by construction
Monday, June 8, 2015
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| Aurora bypass lane Looking northward from N 192nd Photo by Steven H. Robinson |
Pictured above is the new, temporary bypass lane on the east side of Aurora, set up to provide business access while construction proceeds on the east lanes.
The building in the foreground is one of the apartment buildings at South Echo Lake with the James Alan Salon at ground level. The brown and blue building just north of it is the YMCA.
The driveway between the buildings is still open for incoming and outgoing traffic. You can also continue to enter and exit the site from N 192nd.
You can see the entrance to the bypass lane between the reader board and the orange cones / jersey barrier.
Every business and every residence from that point to N 200th can only be entered and exited from the bypass lane, which is one-way northbound.
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| Bypass lane Looking southward from N 200th Photo by Steven H. Robinson |
This photo looks southward from N 200th. Look closely and you can see the sign for Pho 99 in the center of the photo. This popular Vietnamese restaurant is buried behind the construction and accessible only from the access road eight blocks south.
Also visible are signs for the Dollar Store, popular with moms planning birthday parties, a couple of new marijuana-related businesses, and multiple other tiny businesses which may or may not be able to weather this economic challenge.
Farther down the road, at the recently remodeled Woody's pub, the owner is calm about the challenges and is looking forward to the new parking spaces the City has promised him when the work is complete.
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| Looking southbound from N 205th Photo by Steven H. Robinson |
Businesses in the N 200th area are impacted by the accompanying construction on N 200th, which is sometimes open, sometimes not.
The construction continues north to N 205th, but Aurora Village has the entire section from N 200th to N 205th. The entrance to Aurora Village directly from Aurora is blocked, but Aurora Village businesses are not seriously hindered, with two entrances from N 205th and two from N 200th.
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2 comments:
Note to self: never open up a small business in Shoreline! Head North, East, or South of the Shoreline borders to escape the total lack of regard for salt of the earth, homegrown, multi-cultural businesses in this community. Shoreline wants to upzone a quarter of the City to promote a "vibrant", "robust", "livable" community for people of all backgrounds? Stop screwing over and putting out of business the current small businesses that make up the *actual* "diverse", "vibrant", "robust", and "livable" Shoreline community! Total hypocrisy! It really seems as if diversity can only exist in some trust-fund millennial kid's lego-land grad school mummy and daddy luv it precious idea of how our neighborhoods need to be planned. Please pay attention, Shoreline. I know it's something that's easier to ignore and say 'not my problem', but please pay attention. We want more restaurants, but why should anyone in their right mind open up a restaurant when so many businesses have been driven out by these capital improvement projects with no oversight whatsoever or consideration for the existing shoreline businesses which are an Asset to our city. Simple cause and effect.
@12:58am. Why so glum? The mayor dons a sandwich board for the local businesses every now and then, so it's all good, right?
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