Sammamish City Council members recently got an up-close look at the Town Center development taking place at the corner of Southeast Fourth Street and 228th Avenue Southeast with a tour on Aug. 31.

The 6.5 acre mixed-use commercial and residential development, called “The Village at Sammamish Town Center,” will feature a Metropolitan Market and also house businesses Jersey Mike’s Subs, Chipotle, T-Mobile, Issaquah Nails, a Wagly Pet campus and medical and dental offices. It will include 159 apartment units and 343 parking spaces.

The project is being developed by Seattle-based company TRF Pacific.

“It was just a cursory site tour,” said Tim Russell, a TRF development partner who led the tour. “They get a lot of questions about the project. We gave the walk-around so they knew where each of the different building spaces were and who’s occupying where.”

Russell said it was primarily an outdoor tour, with the exception of perusing inside the Metropolitan Market building, which will house the grocer on the first floor and other businesses on the second floor.

Metropolitan Market will be among the first wave of businesses that are scheduled to open Feb. 1, 2017. Russell said the balance of the project should be open by May 1, 2017.

Town Center project manager Kellye Hilde said the project was on schedule and all was going according to plan. She said the tour provided council members with glimpses of how the project was coming together.

“Our council members were excited to see access off of Fourth Street into the site,” Hilde said. “It was laid out and works really well.”

“What impressed me was how substantial it is, it’s a pretty good size,” said Tim Larson, the city’s communications manager, of the project. “It’s got a comprehensive set of features, everything from grocery stores to apartments to medical offices. It looks bigger in person than the artist renderings I’ve seen. It was a little bigger than I expected.”

Russell noted the green measures taken by the developers to make the project eco-friendly. He said 100 percent of the lighting will be LED, the project will use pervious paving and the site will harvest rain water for irrigation.

“The hope is to irrigate the whole project off stormwater off the roofs,” he said. “That’s the goal, just use all of the roof runoff and parking lot runoff to irrigate all the plants.”