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The area bounded by S. 144th St. and between Tukwila International Boulevard and 52rd Ave <br />S. including Foster High School was annexed to the City of Tukwila in 1989. The property has <br />frontage along 42nd Avenue South and South 142nd and 144th Streets with several vehicular <br />access points on the western and southern frontages. There is some perimeter and parking lot <br />landscaping, and several sports fields located north and east of the high school buildings. <br />The B2K site is an 8 -acre, pan- shaped parcel located immediately east of St. Thomas Church <br />and north of Showalter Middle School. Although the site has frontage on Macadam Road, steep <br />grades prevent access from the Macadam to the developable area of the site. Comprising the <br />bulk of the land west of the panhandle, the developable area is mostly flat with grade changes <br />of up to 10 feet. The only existing access to the site is for pedestrians, through the Showalter <br />campus. <br />Existing Development <br />The original Foster High School (constructed in 1952) was demolished due to pervasive use of <br />asbestos as a building material and overall building deterioration and replaced with Foster High <br />as we see it today. Constructed in 1991, Foster High's form originated from a design contest. <br />Described in Attachment E, the winning concept imagined Foster High School as a book with <br />the two buildings (academic and activities wings) forming the book covers, bounded in between <br />by the open courtyard and skybridge. Building modulation on the north and east fapades form <br />the pages of the book. <br />The academic and activity wings (book covers) are constructed of red brick with an inlaid frieze <br />of white, red, and blue bricks near the top above the second -story windows of the academic <br />A <br />Rl <br />