Suburban Development

A "Rural"- Urban Planned Development

Starting in the 1980s, the Port Blakely Company began to pursue development of the property. After many years of planning work, the Blakely Ridge Urban Planned Development (UPD) agreement was approved by King County in 1996.  By this time, the owning Siler Logging Company was no longer in operation, and its lands were held as assets of the Port Blakely Tree Farms.  The UPD agreement defined the plan and restrictions for the development of what would become Trilogy at Redmond Ridge.  

In 1998, Port Blakely sold the property to Quadrant Homes.  Quadrant, the property development subsidiary of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, was developing the nearby Redmond Ridge community. Quadrant Homes, then contracted the construction to Shea Homes – founded in 1881 in Portland Oregon – and developer of the Trilogy brand of active senior communities throughout the US Western states. On site construction started in 1998 and continued through 2013.  The UPD expired in 2021 and has since been replaced by nominal King County zoning rules and regulations. ​

Trilogy at Redmond Ridge (and the nearby Redmond Ridge community) are unique.  Since it was created, Washington state and King County urban planning priorities have changed to emphasize urban population concentration - rather than rural community expansion.  As such, a suburban community nestled in the middle of a rural largely-untouched forest is not likely to ever be approved again.