Capitol Hill Station will be an underground Sound Transit

Sound Transit

Sound Transit has been the popular name of Washington state's Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority since September 19, 1999. It was formed in 1996 by the Snohomish, King, and Pierce County Councils...

 University Link

University Link

University Link is a future light rail extension of Sound Transit's Link light rail system in Seattle, Washington, USA. The line will connect downtown Seattle with the University of Washington via Capitol Hill. The line was approved by the Federal Transit Administration in November 2006...

 light rail station located in the Capitol Hill

Capitol Hill, Seattle, Washington

Capitol Hill is the most densely populated residential district in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the center of the city's gay and counterculture communities, and is one of the city's most prominent nightlife and entertainment districts....

 neighborhood of Seattle, Washington

Seattle, Washington

Seattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...

. It is scheduled to open along with the rest of the University Link project in 2016. 14,000 daily boardings are projected for the station.

Location

The station will be located beneath Nagle Place and the alley to the north of it between E John St and E Denny Way, just east of Broadway. It will have three entrances. The north entrance will be at the southeast corner of Broadway and E John, and the south entrance will be at the southwest corner of Denny Way and Nagle Place, across from Cal Anderson Park

Cal Anderson Park

Cal Anderson Park is a public park on Seattle, Washington's Capitol Hill that includes Lincoln Reservoir and Bobby Morris Playfield.-Features:...

. The west entrance, accessible via a pedestrian tunnel under Broadway from the rest of the station, will be on the west side of Broadway south of Denny, on the same block as Seattle Central Community College

Seattle Central Community College

Seattle Central Community College is a community college located in Seattle, Washington, in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. It is one of the three colleges which make up the Seattle Community College District...

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Construction

Demolition of the buildings on the site began in early 2009. Once demolition and environmental clean-up work is done, excavation, tunnelling, and station construction work will occur. Major construction will last until 2015, with service commencing to the University of Washington

University of Washington

University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...

 in the north and Downtown Seattle

Downtown Seattle

Downtown is the central business district of Seattle, Washington. It is fairly compact compared to other city centers on the West Coast because of its geographical situation: hemmed in on the north and east by hills, on the west by the Elliott Bay, and on the south by reclaimed land that was once...

 and SeaTac

SeaTac, Washington

SeaTac is an American city in southern King County, Washington, and an outlying suburb of Seattle, Washington. Incorporated in February 1990, the City of SeaTac is ten square miles in area and has a population of 26,909 according to the 2010 census...

in the south in 2016. After construction is done, the portions of the blocks used in construction that are not taken up by station entrances will be available for Transit-Oriented Development. Some have suggested using part of the available space for a community amenity such as a permanent farmers' market.