The Board of Directors of Seattle's Sound Transit has signed a contract worth $174 million for Absher Construction Company to build the Northgate Station, guideway and parking garage. The station will serve the Northgate Link Extension trains when the light rail service begins in 2021.
The contract includes constructing an elevated station, a 450 stall parking garage and a transit island for light rail and bus connections.
The elevated station will straddle Northeast 103rd Street east of First Avenue. Trains traveling in 3.5-mile twin tunnels to and from the University of Washington Station at Husky Stadium will stop at underground stations in the Roosevelt and U District, exit the tunnels at First Avenue Northeast and Northeast 95th, and transition to a 0.8-mile elevated guideway to reach the station.
Construction of the Northgate Station is scheduled to be complete in 2020. Construction of underground stations in the Roosevelt and U District neighborhoods will begin in 2017.
The $1.9 billion Northgate Link project extends light rail 4.3 miles north from the University of Washington to a station next to the King County Northgate Transit Center. When service opens in 2021 on the new extension, Northgate Station will serve as the northern terminus for light rail until Lynnwood Link opens in 2023.