NEW Renderings of Island Gateway Site

Happy Holidays from Island Gateway!

The Island Gateway would like to extend a warm Thank You to everyone who worked on our project this year.  Due to amazing efforts on the part of our teams at Asani, Coates Design, PHC Construction, and their subcontractors, we have met all of our construction goals for 2010 – on time and within budget!!  This year the Kids Discovery Museum (KiDiMu) was completed and opened in June.  Far exceeding its previous number of visitors, the KiDiMu is already a favorite destination for families.

The excitement won’t stop in 2011 – next year will bring the completion and opening of our main commercial complex in March, where you’ll be able to stroll through the verdant native gardens, enjoy the shops, and linger in the café.  More than just another commercial center, the Island Gateway is fast becoming a community space that will be a favorite gathering place for years to come.
 
The Island Gateway team is wishing you all a Happy Holiday and a very Happy New Year!

 

Be a Part of it all TODAY!

Limited RETAIL Space 
 

AVAILABLE NOW

With two new museums, pedestrian walkways and extensive landscaping, this site is more than just another commercial center - it will be a favorite Island gathering place for years to come.

Offering more than 40,000 square feet of Class A retail and office space, ground level retail tenants will be sited either directly on Winslow Way, or along our landscaped multi-tiered outdoor courtyard and gathering area.

Experience the benefits of working in an anticipated LEED Gold environment, with unprecedented access to Seattle, Bainbridge Island, Kitsap County and beyond.

This is one of the most powerful locations in the Puget Sound. The Seattle ferry, Washington state's busiest route, ends at the gateway to historic downtown Bainbridge Island.

For more information, or for a private tour,
please call 
206.780.7450 or email  
kelly@theislandgateway.com

Visit our website for leasing information, to view floor plans and availability:

www.theislandgateway.com

Bainbridge Art Museum will start in April

By LYNN PORTER
Journal Staff Reporter

Construction will start next April on the 15,000-square-foot Bainbridge Art Museum, part of the Island Gateway commercial complex next to the ferry dock at the corner of Winslow Way East and state Route 305.

The two-story museum will display contemporary fine art and crafts, and have traveling exhibits. There also will be a museum store and cafe on the first floor, and about 3,000 square feet of art storage in the basement.

The museum will also own and operate about 4,000 square feet in a connected commercial building in Island Gateway. That space will house a 100-seat auditorium and space for art classes and community events.

That space is slated to open March 1, 2011. The main museum will open in the spring of 2012.

About $12 million has been raised to build the main building and the museum's space in the commercial complex, said museum Executive Director Greg Robinson.

This is Bainbridge Art Museum's first building. It now operates out of temporary offices.

Robinson said Island Gateway — which has shops, office space, restaurants and the Kids Discovery Museum — will draw people to the art museum.

“It's a great location,” he said. “It really is the portal to Bainbridge Island. We really feel like we're helping to anchor the arts here on Bainbridge Island.”

The two-story, 5,200-square-foot Kids Discovery Museum opened June 5. Attendance in the first three months was 8,400 — double what it has been in leased space previously occupied by the museum, said Executive Director Susan Sivitz.

The new building is closer to the ferry and more accesible from other parts of Kitsap County, she said.

Museum officials are happy to own high quality space near the future Bainbridge Art Museum, she said. “We could not be happier.”

Island Gateway is deing developed by Asani, headed by Bill Carruthers and Andrew Lonseth, and developer Kelly Samson, who is affiliated with Samson Family Land Co., according to Asani project manager Marja Preston.

The steel and concrete buildings were designed to meet LEED standards by architect Coates Design. PHC Construction is the contractor and Outdoor Studio is the landscape architect.

The rest of the complex is made up of five buildings with a total of 17,700 square feet of office space and 14,400 of retail, including an upstairs restaurant and roof deck. Four of the buildings will open March 1, and the other on June 1, according to Kelly Muldrow, a Windermere Commercial broker who is the leasing agent for Island Gateway.

The developers had considered selling some of the non-museum commercial space, but kept it to better control the tenant mix, Muldrow said. They want tenants that appeal to the community, do well year-round and complement other businesses nearby, he said.

There's lots of interest — including from entrepreneurs — and some negotiations are under way, Muldrow said.

In 2009, the developers bought the 5.28-acre site, which was used for parking and a towing business, Preston said.

She said they are building the museums at cost.

“Our development group only does projects that contribute to the community, and the arts and education are very important to us,” she said. “That's why we're here.”

Carruthers and Lonseth also headed up the development team for Vineyard Lane condos on the island. That project has 45 clustered units, and won the 2008 Livable Communities Award from AARP and the National Association of Home Builders.

Samson is a longtime island developer, Preston said.

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The Old Nakata Building Finds a New Home

You may have noticed the old Nakata building on Winslow Way, at the Island Gateway site, is being disassembled.  The main structure of this historic building will be finding a new home on the Nakata family farm, here on Bainbridge Island.

The Nakata family first used this building to run a hand laundry and bath house for the shipyard workers just after the turn of the century.  Later, the Nakata family joined forces with the Loverich family, consolidating the first grocery stores of the island to start the Town & Country Market here.

The Nakata building, like its family namesake, is a rich part of Bainbridge Islands heritage and we are proud to be part of the  preservation of this piece of our history.

 

 

Bainbridge Island’s newest development to exceed energy efficiency standards

October 6, 2010 @ 10:41am | The KPBJ

The Island Gateway development, at the corner of Winslow Way and Highway 305 on Bainbridge Island, will meet the goals of both national and international energy challenges. Designed and built through the partnership of Asani, Coates Design, and PHC Construction, the new commercial buildings will exceed energy efficiency standards set out by the Department of Energy’s Energy Star program and the ‘Architecture 2030’ challenge.

The development, designed architect Matthew Coates, will host office space, retail space, and two museums in five buildings. Preliminary analysis shows that the commercial buildings currently under construction score in the top ten percent of all buildings in the Energy Star program, which, through the Department of Energy, encourages commercial and residential buildings to reduce their energy consumption and establish lower occupancy costs.

The buildings also meet the Architecture 2030 challenge goals. Architecture 2030, a non-profit organization, recognizes that buildings are a significant source of demand for energy and materials that cause greenhouse gasses and aims to encourage all buildings to be carbon neutral by 2030.

Energy savings in the buildings are realized through careful design and construction, as well as choice of materials and equipment that maximize efficiency. The recent revisions to the building design that achieve the energy savings were all made within the original budget for the buildings, demonstrating that thoughtful design and planning can achieve energy efficiencies without additional capital investment.

Tenants of the buildings will be the direct benefactors of these energy efficiency measures, experiencing more comfortable work spaces and reduced utility costs.

“The Island Gateway team has done a fantastic job of paying attention to what matters most to this community and what will matter most to the building’s eventual users — without adding significant costs to the project,” says Kelly Muldrow, broker at Windermere Commercial.


http://kpbj.com/headlines/environment/2010-10-06/bainbridge_island_s_newest_development_to_exceed_energy_efficiency_

Zero Waste at Island Gateway

The Island Gateway would like to thank our tenants and visitors in advance for helping us to create a community committed to the goal of Zero Waste.  There is no question that such a goal is challenging.  We as a community have to rethink and redevelop the way we do everyday business and continue to find new ways to reduce our waste.   Starting with the goals we’ve written about on this blog, and moving forward as a community we are certain we can continue to succeed at our goal of creating a Zero Waste community at Island Gateway!

Thank you!