By CLAYTON PARK

LAND USE

Krispy Kreme eyes North Seattle:

Real estate developer Ed O'Sullivan has notified the City's Department of Design, Construction and Land Use (DCLU) of his preliminary plans to build a pair of adjacent one-story buildings on the corner of N. 125th and Aurora Ave. N. that would include a Krispy Kreme Doughnuts shop and a Jack in the Box fast-food restaurant on the vacant southeast corner of the block that currently includes a Lowe's Home Improvement store. O'Sullivan says he'd like to open by mid-year 2003.

O'Sullivan of Pacific Centers Inc. is a Ballard resident who recently completed a two-tenant retail building that includes a 7-Eleven convenience store and a Jack in the Box restaurant at 999 Leary Way, the site of a former junk yard.

Scott Kemp, the DCLU land use planner assigned to the project, said he has been told that the proposed Krispy Kreme and Jack in the Box would each have their own drive-through lines and could be built so that they connect with the existing pedestrian walkways in the Lowe's parking lot.

Krispy Kreme is the immensely popular Winston-Salem, N.C.-based doughnut chain, which opened its first store in the Pacific Northwest in Issaquah last fall amid considerable hoopla. For more information (project #2108593), call Kemp at 233-3866.

Lake City complex planned:

John Boileau Architects has completed the design for the Villa Appia, a 90,000-square-foot mixed use project that would be built on the corner of 31st Avenue NE and NE 123rd in Lake City. The $6 million project, which began construction a few weeks ago, is expected to be completed by the end of May 2003.

The developers of the Villa Appia project are Nigel and Teresa Jones, owners of Appian Construction in Lake City, who plan to move their business into the ground-floor commercial space of the new building. This is the Jones' first development. Some commercial space will also be available for lease to another business, said architect John Boileau of Greenwood. The five upper floors of the proposed building would contain 55 apartment units.

For more information, call Boileau at 783-2840.

Wallingford project review:

DCLU's Design Review Board will consider a developer's plans to build a mixed-use project at 3333 Wallingford Ave. N, at a meeting Monday, May 6, at Eckstein Middle School, beginning at 6:30 p.m. The project calls for construction of a four-story building with 7,000-square-feet of retail space at the ground level and 56 residential units on the upper floors. The applicant is listed as Thomas Wells. For details about the project (#2105167), call DCLU land use planner Scott Kemp at 233-3866.

4-story building in Greenwood:

A developer has applied for design review of a four-story mixed-use project in Greenwood, at 424 N. 85th St., that would include ground-floor commercial space and 55 apartment units on the upper floors. Steve Lampert, a spokesman for Driscoll Architects, said the developer for the project is Senh-Minh Che, a businessman who owns a grocery store in the International District. The Greenwood site currently has an unoccupied building, which would be demolished. For details about the project (#2107947), call DCLU land use consultant planner David Graves at 297-2106.

Private school seeks to expand:

Assumption St. Bridget, a K-8 private Catholic school, has applied for a master-use permit to change the use of an existing single-family house located at 6221 32nd Ave. NE, into an administrative office and storage space for the school. Marilu Byrne, the school's plant manager and technology director, said the school, which is located across the street from the site in question, bought the house last summer. The school, has been located in the Bryant neighborhood since 1945 and currently has 543 students. For more information about the project (#2107161), call DCLU land use planner Christopher Ndifon at 684-5046.