Promenade Apartments, LLC of Bellevue has submitted an initial application to the City of Auburn to build on Lea Hill a 320-unit apartment complex, filling in a 14.5-acre site at the northwest corner of Southeast 312th Street and 132nd Avenue South.

Now in the initial review process, the Promenade Apartments project, which is to include a commercial pad, won’t begin construction for several years, according to Jeff Tate, assistant community development director for the City of Auburn.

“It is so early in the process, and there are so many steps to go,” Tate said. “I think that they are still a couple years out to get it to construction. We are going to spend a lot of 2015 just working through the engineering issues and land-use issues before we get into more detail with building and engineering.”

The project site is abutted by the Seasons Apartment complex and commercial development to the west and the Brandon Meadows subdivision to the northeast.

Another proposal, if it comes to pass, would bring to Auburn the first new commercial development along the recently constructed A-B Street corridor that runs from downtown Auburn to South 277th Street.

Pre-application information for The Reserve, on file with the City, calls for a 250-unit, affordable multiple-family residential building and 300 units of senior housing, along with commercial and service-type uses, on a 10.7-acre site west of Lowe’s in north Auburn.

“This was submitted at a pre-application conference, and no applications have been submitted,” Tate said. “Right now, they are just asking for information and have prepared something for our feedback.

“… We don’t consider this an application,” Tate emphasized. “It’s an inquiry, we get them in all the time about little things, like tenant improvements. But this would be the first big project along that corridor.”