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sLc SILVER LAKE CENTER The Project Plan • The Plan for Silver Lake Center has evolved from our initial encounter with the property in 1991 ... an evolution that has been influenced by many and variable factors; • Two principle factors involve our experience with mixed-use projects in other parts of the continent and the positive embrace of the ideas expressed by the City of Everett departments of Planning and Public Works; • Over the years,a principle challenge was to hold to the faith that the project we envisaged and supported by the Everett Comprehensive Plan,then augmented by the Everett Land Use Code, could really be accomplished. There were many obstacles and paths of least resistance; • The Project Plan seeks much more than a conventional neighborhood commercial center anchored by a food store and a drug store ... and accordingly tries to determine the intrinsic strength and character of the land and its urban context for the foreseeable future; • In our view,the lands that comprise Silver Lake Center demand a Plan and an Architecture that does indeed acknowledge these values; • Over the course of the permitting process we will discover the degree to which our interpretation of these forces are correct by the adjudication of others in this permit process and in the market response to follow. • The Project Plan then must embrace many diverse and sometimes conflicting requirements such as trying to create a place for people that is not dominated by a parking lot... a parking lot that is so fundamental to the commercial and hard core economics of urban development and our social and cultural conventions that also have their own demands of"convenience"; • The principle organizational element of the Project is the pedestrian dominant zone that we call a "Promenade"because it is a place for walking(access)and a place for encounter(people and products); • This highly articulated path is then reinforced by the experience that embraces all one's senses ... sight, smell,sound,touch and taste. • The Promenade then,and its attendant architecture must be more powerful than the parking lot it surrounds. • The parking lot itself must in turn be crafted through modulation, landscaping, lighting,color and texture; • The vistas that are mentioned elsewhere are also employed,directing and to some extent,pulling on one's attention to the Lake; Silver Lake Center Project Profile Page 8 of 21