Ace Hardware signed a Letter of Intent to be one of the anchor tenants of a new portion of the Sammamish Town Center, developer STCA announced today at the Sammamish Chamber of Commerce lunch.
STCA rendering of its Sammamish Town Center project.
Matt Samwick of the company said details must be negotiated; no timeline has been set for a firm contract.
Samwick told Sammamish Comment after the lunch that other companies are lined up as anchor tenants, but no announcement is imminent.
Judy Clibborn. Photo via Flickr.
State Rep. Judy Clibborn (D-41st) of Mercer Island announced she will retire at the end of this term.
Clibborn was first elected in 2002.
The 41st includes the southern half of Sammamish roughly along SE 8th St.
The Sammamish City Council extended the building moratorium to allow staff and the 
council to complete a revised traffic concurrency plan by July. The Town Center was not exempted.
The vote was 7-0.
Council member Jason Ritchie said STCA, a developer of the Town Center, “will be fine either way.”
But he expressed concern about the individual homeowners being prevented from building.
Debbie Treen
By Debbie Treen
Guest Contributor
I want to offer a counterpoint to Jason Ritchie’s reasons for exempting the Town Center from the current development moratorium. His reasons for lifting the moratorium are that the City will hold the 
developers accountable, the Town Center saves the environment, residents are getting the best deal, the Town Center accommodates growth, and that he will work to be sure growth is responsible.
Lost in all the hoopla over the Legislature’s vote to exempt itself from the Public Records
Jay Rodne. Photo via Google images.
Act and the drama over its repeal, State Rep. Jay Rodne (R-5th) announced Feb. 28 he won’t run for reelection.
Rodne vote for the exemption. He was nearly defeated in 2016 by Jason Ritchie, a Democrat who lives in the Klahanie neighborhood in Sammamish. Ritchie led Rodne on election night but the tide turned as votes were counted, and Rodne won reelection narrowly.
Ritchie ran the next year for Sammamish City Council and won.
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