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Developer Marshall Chesrown proposed utilizing this former locomotive repair yard into a new mixed-use "urban village" development with 2,600 units. Scaled to the pedestrian or cyclicst, Kendall Yards was one of 4,000 "new urbanism" developments planned or under construction in early 2007. He also planned to have 1 million square feet of commercial and office space to serve the inhabitants. Chesrown planned some high-rise towers, some as high as 12 stories, to line the river bluff. The cost over 20 years was set at $1 billion. Chesrown, a Spokane, native, made money selling cars associated with the later Blockbuster Video tycoon, H. Wayne Huizenga. The first stage of the development--geared to affluent homeowners--was to start in the Spring 2007, was to cover 20 acres and cost $300 million.

Kendall Yards was former railroad maintenance facility that was later named a toxic "brownfield."

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