City does not care about annexed area | Letter

Published 9:36 am Monday, February 16, 2015

I cannot believe that the city of Kirkland would allow Goodwill to put their store into the old Albertsons store on 132nd street.

This prime residential/commercial property should not be used for this type of store. The whole corner of 132nd and 100th looks disgusting and an embarrassment to the Juanita/Kirkland area. Totem Lake shopping center is an embarrassment as well.

What is wrong with our civic leaders that they cannot get these prime properties developed to suit the Kirkland area in a better way? The city of Kirkland found it so important to annex this area yet they haven’t done a thing to develop it in a better way.

I guess the downtown area is only what matters to them? It doesn’t make any sense there is no good retail shopping areas in Kirkland and we find ourselves always having to go to Woodenville or Redmond.

Helen White, Kirkland