"This is a compelling location--in the heart of a mature, underserved community, with easy freeway and surface street access and visibility," says Robertson VP Mark Miller. "We are currently in discussions with several other retailers who are very interested in the site."

The site is now home to the Midway Swap Meet. Robertson says is plans to relocate the swap meet and complement Lowe's with community-serving retailers and restaurants.Seattle-based Pacland Company is handling site planning. Tony Omlin and Thomas Graves of Rainier Commercial in Gig Harbor, WA, are managing leasing. The company anticipates beginning construction this fall, about the same time it expects to gain approvals on a mixed-use development plan for a 55-acre site in nearby Auburn, WA.

Robertson Properties Group owns and manages more than five million sf of industrial, office and retail space, and owns an additional 230 acres of undeveloped land. In the past five years, it has developed close to three million sf of retail space and has an additional trhee million sf of projects in pre-development or under construction.