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Sound Transit Operations & Maintenance Satellite Facility: East

A design drawing of the planned OMFE facility in Bellevue, Washington
Project Type
Public Transit
Financing Type
TIFIA
Status
Credit Agreement Executed
Sponsor/Borrower
Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit)
Project Description

The Operations & Maintenance Satellite Facility: East ("Project") is a proposed facility that will maintain, store, and deploy light rail vehicles.  The Project is crucial for the expansion of the region’s light rail system.  In 2023, the system is expected to grow from 16 to 50 miles and the existing light rail fleet will triple in size from 62 to 180 vehicles.   The new site will be located between a former BNSF Railway railroad right-of-way on the west and 120th Avenue Northeast on the east, south of SR520 and north of Northeast 12th Street in the City of Bellevue. The new operations and maintenance facility is able to store and maintain up to 96 light rail vehicles, providing Sound Transit with needed additional maintenance capacity.

Project Link
Sound Transit OMFE
Project Details
TIFIA Assistance
$87.70M
Primary Revenue Pledge
Sales Tax Revenues
Project Cost
$265.60M
Fiscal Year Closed
FY2021
Funding Sources
Sound Transit Tax Revenue: $112.3 million
TIFIA Loan: $87.7 million
Bond Proceeds: $57.3 million
Grant Revenue - Federal/Local: $8.4 million
Project Delivery/Contract Method
 Design-Build
Project Advisers/Consultants
To Sound Transit:

Financial Advisor – Piper Jaffray
Legal Advisor – Foster Pepper
To USDOT Build America Bureau:

TIFIA Financial Advisor – Taylor DeJongh/Booz Allen Hamilton
TIFIA Legal Advisor – Shearman & Sterling LLP
Project Lender
USDOT Build America Bureau, Bondholders
Credit Assistance Detail
Direct loan: $87.7 million.  The TIFIA loan will be repaid through pledged gross tax revenues.
Financial Status
This loan replaces the TIFIA loan that was closed in FY2017.
Innovations
The Sound Transit Operations & Maintenance Satellite Facility: East Project is the second project to reach financial close under a Master Credit Agreement (MCA) executed by USDOT and Sound Transit in December 2016 that provided a $1.991 billion contingent commitment to the Borrower.  The MCA provides Sound Transit certainty, predictability and efficiency for projects under the MCA. 
Application Details
Credit Agreement Executed
Instrument Type
Direct Loan