Editor:
The Richmond Pediatrics Clinic meets the Mountlake Terrace and surrounding area’s need for high-caliber pediatric and adolescent care.
For more than 50 years, Richmond Pediatrics Clinic has provided high-quality, compassionate care. They currently have a staff of over 25 members, including 7 doctors.
Richmond Pediatrics Clinic wants to locate very near Terrace Park School and we should welcome them to our community.
I encourage you to contact City Manager Scott Hugill ( SHugill@ci.mlt.wa.us 425-744-6208) and the Mountlake Terrace City Council (cityhall@ci.mlt.wa.us).
Support Richmond Pediatrics’ desire to move into the Atlas 236 Building on 236th and 56th in Mountlake Terrace.
Many families and people in the community have already shown support for Richmond Pediatrics as you can see in the link below. (https://mountlaketerrace.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=1591&meta_id=91573)
Take a second and send an email or make a telephone call.
Or Zoom in to the public hearing on Monday, June 7, 2021 at 7 pm.
It’s good for kids!!!
John E. Martin
Mountlake Terrace
We did not have a good experience with Richmond Pediatrics. We ended up going to UW Medicine Shoreline & are so happy with them!
I would rather see some other merchant such as restaurant in these mixed use areas. I hope the city sticks to its guns. The building owners knew the restrictions when they built the building.
I would frequent a restaurant several times a week that sells regular sandwiches and coffee and has Wi-Fi if there was close-by, useable parking available for full sized vehicles.
As an MLT resident for 13 years and a parent of a toddler, I’m in support of Richmond Pediatrics. Dr. Falkenberg was my pediatrician, and now she’s my son’s pediatrician. This group of doctors is highly respected and the clinic is community focused. We need these types of businesses in our community focused city, to attract families, bring cash flow to our other local businesses and restaurants (parents buy a lot of stuff for their kids) and solidify MLT as a good place to invest economically. Right now is not a good time to think of restaurants or food industry only. if COVID provides the City Council one lesson, it’s diversify income opportunities.
I agree having Pediatrics in the area, just not in these specific spots. Store fronts in Atlas should not be used for medical use.
And I agree there should be stores, which is why there’s ample space for them AND the pediatric clinic AND restaurants AND salons AND more. It shouldn’t be an all or nothing scenario, and diversity of income is a GOOD thing (if we get hit with another pandemic or COVID resurgence, the only site in that building likely to stay in business thus generating income is the clinic). To date, filling the open spaces has been a challenge, no one else is or has inquired about the space but the clinic. And if spaces sit empty when I know they could have been filled with a tax paying, pillar of community type permanent enterprise?? Well thats (1) bad business and (2) would tick me off as a tax paying citizen of MLT. You don’t turn away good, reputable, community building businesses; especially when no one else is even remotely knocking at your door. Can you imagine all the new business we could generate when all those parents at that new Montessori school come IN to MLT instead of hopping right back on the freeway??
It is only the corner unit that is not zoned for medical use; it must be restaurant or retail. They are allowed to rent any other unit in the building except the corner unit. There are a few high visibility corners in the Town Center that are zoned this way, for a reason. I hope the city keeps it that way. AFCO knew the rules when they built it.
Did they approve it?
They approved it with some limitations. We’ll have the full story posted later tonight.