Plans for the Parkplace redevelopment is moving forward as owner Talon Capital continues to meet with the city of Kirkland’s design review board.

The first conceptual design conference was held June 15, and now Talon is working with the board on the specific design for each building in the first phase, according to Bill Pollard, one of Talon’s principal owners.

Pollard said the site plan now includes two office buildings with retail on the ground floor, one of them will include the current QFC, which Pollard said will be double its current size, along with other retail, while the second floor will have restaurants. The office space, he said, will be on the upper floors of the eight-story building.

As part of the plan, one building will be residential, with 225 units. The Master Plan looks to have 300 units total on the Parkplace property, 10 percent of which would be for affordable housing.

The City Council voted to approve zoning changes to the Parkplace property as well as the Master Plan and Design Guidelines in order to allow for more residential use. After purchasing the property from Touchstone, Talon amended the Master Plan to reduce the overall size.

As they continue working with the design review board for the first phase of the project, Talon plans to eventually put in their application for building permits. Pollard said they hope to break ground beginning in the first quarter of 2016.

For Parkplace businesses, the redevelopment means relocation for the duration of the project, and though many of them have expressed their hope to return, others have said the costs of moving a second time are too much.

“We understand that may not be practical and they may choose to relocate and not come back again,” Pollard said. “We’re talking to all of them and we would love to have them back.”

When they first announced their plans for redevelopment in October, Pollard and fellow principal owner Jim Neal said they intended to engage in community outreach. Since then, they’ve held around 30 community meetings, and so far, Pollard said, the response has been positive from both residents as well as the council and the planning commission.

“I would say the community support has been wonderful,” he said. “We continue to have dialogue with various community members as the design starts to mature. I think it’s been a great ‘give and take’ with the community and most people feel pretty pleased with what’s being planned.”