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Lynnwood expects an influx of shoppers — from Seattle With Northgate Mall’s transformation into a mixed development, shoppers there are eyeing Alderwood.

By Janice Podsada

which have been under siege from e-commerce and changing consumer tastes.

Herald Writer

SEATTLE — Northgate has been Brenda Keller’s go-to shopping mall for decades.

But with most of the North Seattle mall now closed, the Seattle resident plans to head north and do her holiday shopping at Alderwood mall in Lynnwood.

Northgate, a shadow of its former retail self, has been partitioned into two small sections on the north and south ends.

The covered mall is undergoing a massive makeover that has closed the main concourse and emptied its gallery of stores.

Old Navy, Bed Bath & Beyond and Nordstrom Rack are among a handful of retailers and food concessions that remain open.

“This was my go-to place,” said Keller, seated in the vast but mostly empty food court at the south end of the mall. Keller was having lunch with Trina McCarrell of Shoreline.

Both had been talking about making the trek to Alderwood to check out the department stores.

“We lost JCPenney, Macy’s, Nordstrom,” said McCarrell, naming some of Northgate’s retail anchors, all of which were open last year at this time.

The department-store trio and a score of other retailers closed their Northgate locations this year.

“The emptying of Northgate Mall happened really quick,” said David Kleitsch, the city of Lynnwood’s economic development director. So sudden, he said, that Lynnwood officials didn’t have time to quantify the potential impact.

“Our expectation is

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Shoppers make their way to the food court on Black Friday at Alderwood mall in Lynnwood.

that that economic activity will come up here,” Kleitsch said. “We’re the last regional mall north of Seattle. Our expectation is that we will get that SeattleNorth Seattle mall trade.”

The 70-year-old Northgate Mall isn’t being entirely bulldozed under — parts of it will be retained and other parts will be demolished to make room for new buildings and outdoor spaces, Simon Properties, the mall’s owner, said in a news release.

A massive makeover is under way to transform Northgate, the “country’s first regional mall,” into a mixed-use center and position the property to take advantage of the neighboring new Sound Transit light rail station, scheduled to open in 2021.

When the Northgate project is completed in 2021,

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Portions of the once-mighty Northgate Mall will be demolished to make way for offices, residences and an NHL hockey practice facility.

the new Northgate center will glisten with offices, residential and retail space, outdoor space and ice rinks,

at the center of a National Hockey League training facility, according to developers’ plans.

Simon says that the new Northgate will be economically viable and less reliant on brick-and-mortar retail,

For North Seattlearea residents Keller and McCarrell, the commute to Lynnwood is do-able.

“I don’t mind driving to Alderwood at all,” said Keller, who prefers shopping in a store to buying online.

Traffic-wise, the alternatives aren’t as appealing.

Westfield Southcenter i n Tukwila? Too far south, said McCarrell.

Downtown Seattle? “I’m not going anywhere near there,” Keller said.

Early next year, downtown Seattle will lose its Macy’s, which has been a department store under one banner or another for 90 years.

The closure further winnows Macy’s Puget Sound locations to Tacoma, Southcenter, Bellevue Square and Lynnwood.

In a recent Washington State University survey of Puget Sound residents, 46%, said they don’t want to spend more than 30 minutes commuting to a shopping destination.

“Alderwood is probably about 10 miles north of Northgate,” said Joan Giese, a WSU marketing professor who evaluated the survey.

“Depending on the time of day and traffic, that certainly is within 30 minutes or less for north Seattle shoppers who want that one-stop shopping experience,” Giese said.

Alderwood’s appeal may extend farther south to some of Seattle’s more central neighborhoods, including Ballard.

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Tara Hoch, who lives in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood, stopped by Northgate to pay her cable bill and took note of the limited number of stores.

“Things are changing here.” Hoch said. “It’s likely I’ll do my shopping this year at Alderwood.”

Jerry Irwin, Alderwood’s senior general manager, said the shopping center has begun “seeing even more people from the Seattle area.”

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Alderwood, which opened as Alderwood Mall in 1979, houses some of the same retailers that once populated Northgate: JCPenney, Macy’s, Nordstrom, Eddie Bauer, Loft, Forever 21 — the list goes on.

In the mid-1990s, a $12 million upgrade added a food court and other features to the mall.

Another renovation in the early 2000s created two open-air areas known as The Village and The Terraces.

“Alderwood has long

been a significant destination for people outside (Snohomish) county, Lynnwood city center program manager Karl Almgrensaid.

“It already has regional pull from the north. We get lots of shoppers from Canada. Now it’s pulling from the south,” Almgren said. “It’s poised to play an even greater role” regionally.

A Lynnwood light rail station, near 204th Street Southwest and I-5, is expected to begin operating in 2024. Trains are scheduled to arrive every four to six minutes during peak times and will move riders from Lynnwood to downtown Seattle in 28 minutes.

That fits neatly within that 30-minute shoppingcommute limit.

The Lynnwood Sound Transit station will be connected to Alderwood by bus and the Interurban Trail.

Later, a light rail stop near Alderwood is planned.

The Alderwood mall area, which includes Alderwood and smaller shopping centers, is already a significant economic generator, Kleitsch said.

The addition of light rail and proposed mixed-use developments within walking distance of the station,

including nearly 1,400 new housing units, is expected to turbocharge Lynnwood’s retail scene.

“We will see that whole area around the mall become an even stronger economic engine,” Kleitsch said.

Lynnwood’s business community, which includes the Alderwood mall area and the Highway 99 corridor, generated $3 billion worth of taxable sales in 2018, up 3.8% from 2017.

Former Northgate shoppers could add significantly to the annual total, though that remains to be seen.

“When it gets close to the holidays, we’ll head up to Alderwood,” said Kathy Serrato, seated with her husband, John, at a table in Northgate’s food court.

“There’s a candy store there I like there, and a Mariners Team Store,” she said.

Still, said Serrato wistfully, “it’s hard to imagine Northgate gone.”

More than a collection of stores, Northgate figures prominently in her memories of growing up in Seattle.

“I remember my mom bringing me here.”

Janice Podsada; jpodsada@heraldnet.com; 425-339-3097; Twitter: JanicePods

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This business down-sized, and yet it’s still growing The owners of Houseplants Galore in Everett closed a nursery and now focus on indoor greenery.

By Janice Podsada Herald Writer

EVERETT — On Steve Compton’s desk today for observation: a hungoverlooking Philodendron with a broken stem.

“I’m keeping an eye on it,” he said of the unhappy house plant.

Compton hoped to determine the source of the break: Was it an accident or was it disease, “something I need to watch for,” he said.

Compton and his wife, Carrie, are the co-owners of Houseplants Galore, a new Everett store that’s focused on plants that thrive in the great indoors.

The store carries several hundred different species, at least half of which can live in a relatively dark area, he said.

The couple has been in the plant business since 2013 when they opened Li’l Sprout Nursery and Garden Center in Mill Creek.

In July, they closed the three-acre nursery and super-down-sized, moving into a 5,000-square-foot storefront on Everett Mall Way. “It was like moving from a 747 cargo plane to a small passenger plane,” Compton said.

The smaller venue fits the couple’s new focus — indoor plants and accessories.

Gone are the bedding plants, shrubs and ornamental grasses that carpeted the old haunt.

The emphasis now is on “high-efficiency indoor air-pollution fighters” such as Arrowhead Vine, Chinese Evergreen, Dracaena, Peace Lily and Snake Plant — all good for clearing the air, Steve said.

Every plant gets a thorough cleaning and exam at Houseplants Galore on Everett Mall Way.

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Steve Compton co-owns Houseplants Galore on Everett Mall Way, which opened in July.

When the lease on the Mill Creek nursery expired earlier this year, the Comptons began searching for a smaller location.

“The landlord gave us a few months and then gave us a few months more,”

Carrie Compton said.

“But you can’t run a business like that — not knowing what’s next,” she said.

Restarting a full nursery somewhere else, said Steve Compton, “was a little

more commitment than we were willing to do.”

“We decided this might be an untapped area,” he said of the focus on indoor greenery.

Mindy Tran stopped by the new store on a recent

morning after seeing the sign from the street.

“I must have about 50 plants at home,” said Tran, who added to her collection of flora with the purchase of a heartshaped Hoya Kerrii.

“I’m seeing a lot of rare things I don’t see elsewhere,” Tran said after a walking through the bright, airy store.

The popularity of house plants, which spiked in the 1970s and 1980s (remember macrame hangers?), is on the upswing, Steve said.

“Having living things does make a difference, even if it’s a pet or a plant,” Steve said.

Does a cave have more light than your apartment?

Is your cubicle at work lit mainly by a computer screen?

There are lots plants that live happily in the wild under a heavy canopy of trees and don’t want or need to bask in the sun, Steve Compton said.

If you do have a bright spot, Houseplants Galore sells carnivorous plants that would love to turn your fruit flies into a smoothie. (The plants lure

them with a sweet scent and then dissolve them.)

Steve, a former homesecurity system designer, discovered his affinity for “plant babies” when he and his wife bought a home in 2002.

“I tried my hand at gardening and took a liking to it in a way I’d never liked something before,” he said.

The decision to turn his passion into a business was inspired by some channel surfing.

“I was watching latenight TV and saw this thing about a guy who had a little nursery in his backyard,” Steve said.

“I saw that and said to myself, ‘I can do this,’” he said. “It became my goal to have a nursery of some sort.”

That goal spurred him to earn an associate’s degree in horticulture and greenhouse management at Edmonds Community College in 2012.

Carrie, a full-time travel agent during the week, joins her husband at the store on weekends.

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“I designed the store and the displays,” Carrie said.

No customer goes out the door without a warning from Steve or Carrie: “Over-watering kills.”

Just because everything outside is rain-soaked doesn’t mean your plant

needs to be doused.

“Water that sits gets stagnant,” said Steve. Then the roots get a fungus, which was the diagnosis for that philodendron mentioned earlier.

What the roots really want is air, the Comptons said.

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Julia Banker looks at an Elephant Ear Serendipity while browsing for plants at HousePlants Galore on Everett Mall Way.

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A classic hobby store survives in the era of video games At the Edmonds Hobby Shop, model cars, boats and trains are still popular with grown-up kids.

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Richard Hunt, the owner of the Edmonds Hobby Shop, can recall a time when “kids were pretty much crazy about building things.”

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In the past two decades, as video games have grown dominant, the popularity of model building has dropped off, and the kids who once spent hours gluing and clamping plastic parts together are now grown-ups with kids or grandkids of their own, he said.

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and their father, Richard Hunt, opened the hobby store at 120th Fourth Avenue South in the early 1970s, nearly 50 years ago.

The little hobby store — it’s in a tiny house — provided a modest living until about 10 or 15 years ago, Hunt said.

Now it’s a labor of love.

“This is my semi-retirement,” joked Hunt, 77.

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Richard Hunt, owner of The Edmonds Hobby Shop, has been in business since the early 1970s — when building model airplanes, trains, boats and locomotives was a big thing for kids.

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Richard Hunt, owner of The Edmonds Hobby Shop, has been in business since the early 1970s — when building model airplanes, trains, boats and locomotives was a big thing for kids. Today the shop is a labor of love for Hunt, who is semi-retired, and customers tend to be adults who want to re-live the joys of their youth.

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Still, he sees parents bring their kids to the store to check out the the electric train sets and kits that are designed to snap together. “There’s no gluing or painting,” Hunt said.

“I see a lot of young boys that are train fanatics by the age of 4 — they usually drag their mom and dad in here,” he said. “The girl model builders? I have relatively few.”

“We have extremes,” Hunt said. “We have young kids under 10 that really like the trains and customers age 60 and above.”

For the older set, the allure is building “models and machines that meant something in their early years,” he said.

Former Edmonds resident Henry Simpson was a prolific model builder when he was a teen.

Simpson would use the income from his paperroute to buy kits, which cost $4 or $5, he said, or about $30 to $40 in today’s dollars.

Building a model?

Before you start gluing everything together, “temper your excitement,” Simpson said. “Take your time and pay attention to detail. It doesn’t hurt to read the instructions.”

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incorporating everyday items into a design — is encouraged.

“I used to swap out the bigger wheels and tires from one model to another,” said Simpson, who once fashioned a working suspension on one of his model cars from the springs of a ball point pen.

“Models were fun when I was a kid.” Simpson said.

“I liked building or drawing things.”

By high school, his interest in models had waned.

“After that, I was interested in real cars,” he said.

Then as now, some of the most popular kits are the model planes, which include fuel-enginepowered airplanes that connect to a 25-foot wire, Hunt said.

Finding the tiny engine

that fits those models involves scouring the internet.

Cox, the California company that manufactured the two-stroke engines, went out of business several years ago, Hunt said.

The thumb-size engines were small but packed a wallop, he said. “They were pretty loud — like a miniature chainsaw.”

“One of the big trends in the last 10 years has been the shift from fuel powered engines (which run on a mixture of methanol, castor oil and nitromethane) to electric-powered engines,” he said.

Model-making is a great way to overcome the belief that you have to do something perfectly.

Don’t like the results?

Pull it apart. Build it again.

“We all learn by failing,” Hunt said.

Janice Podsada; jpodsada@heraldnet.com; 425-339-3097; Twitter: JanicePods

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Richard Hunt, owner of The Edmonds Hobby Shop, helps Jan Schlameus with appraisal of a train set from her youth.

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New EvCC class teaches conversational Japanese for business Everett Community College offers a three-quarter course in language and business skills.

By Janice Podsada Herald Writer

EVERETT — In 2016, a student in Masashi Kato’s class in conversational Japanese had the chance to practice her language skills in a high-stakes setting: a preschool in Japan.

They peppered her with questions.

“As soon as she set foot inside the door, she was on the spot,” Kato said.

“Five-year-old kids have no mercy — they wanted to talk nonstop,” he said.

In January, Kato and Everett Community College will offer a three-quarter course in conversational Japanese that focuses on

doing business in Japan.

The program concludes in July with in an optional internship, Kato said.

Students will learn language skills needed to communicate with business contacts, study cultural practices and master business etiquette, said Kato, who taught similar classes to engineering students at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Kato, a native speaker, joined the faculty at EvCC in 2014. He came to the United States in 1991 to study at the University of Washington.

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beginning level of Japanese and designed specifically for communication in workplaces,” he said.

After completing the courses, students should be able to “order at a restaurant, invite someone to an event and be able to discuss feelings and preferences,” Kato said.

Ten students will be selected to visit Japan, Kato said.

There they will have the opportunity to participate in a 10-day internship at a Japanese business through a partnership with Aichi Toho University in Nagoya.

The last time the program was offered, in 2016, students completed internships at a hotel, florist, cafe and pre-school, he said.

The trip includes a home stay with a Japanese family — “another opportunity for students to practice Japanese,” Kato said.

“The best time to make

mistakes is during the 10-day internship,” Kato said. “You find out quickly what works and what doesn’t work,” he said.

Writing is not emphasized in the course, but students are encouraged to read Japanese publications.

The two-hour evening course, which is open to everyone, begins Jan. 6. Classes are Mondays from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Enrollment is capped at 35 students.

Funding for the class is provided through the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business and the Jackson School of International Studies, with support from a U.S. Department of Education Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program grant.

For more information, visit EverettCC.edu/Business190.

To enroll in the class, apply to Everett Community College at EverettCC.edu/Apply.

Janice Podsada; jpodsada@ heraldnet.com; 425-339-3097; Twitter: JanicePods

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