SEATTLE (AP) — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has made a deal with the city of Seattle to build a new street around its new campus rather than allow the city to tunnel under the property.
The new Sixth Avenue will connect Mercer Street to the deep-bore tunnel replacing the Alaskan Way Viaduct.
KING-TV reports the Foundation has agreed to pay $8 million for excavation work and a land swap. That would make the route around the foundation campus the cheaper alternative.
The agreement would keep a city street away from the Foundation’s yet-to-be built third building. It gives them land for a garage entrance and it avoids a threatened lawsuit.
