The winning entry was entitled "North Rainier, a Design to Nurture Growth" and focused on creating a revitalized urban core in an existing underutilized commercial/ industrial area in central Seattle. By combining the efforts of architects, landscape architects and MBA disciplines the competition sought a design solution that was based both on creativity, functionality, and economic feasibility. Goals of the project were to create a mixed use village that could leverage the newly constructed light-rail station with new programmatic elements in a dynamic walkable urban realm.
Also on the winning team were North Carolina State University Graduate Architecture Students Luis Guevera, Geoff Wike, James Sun; and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate MBA Student Jason Bockenek .
