[1][2] The transit center is located adjacent to The Commons at Federal Way shopping mall and Interstate 5, connected via a direct access ramp to its high-occupancy vehicle lanes.

A voter-approved plan passed in 2008 proposed funding to design, but not construct, a light rail station and other bus and parking improvements at the transit center.

[6] A series of 35 murals by local artists were installed on the construction site's fences, but were damaged in an act of vandalism in August 2020.

[7] Sound Transit officials called the incident racially-motivated, as the murals were primarily celebrating the area's Pacific Islander, Black, and Asian communities.

[12] A proposal by sculptor Donald Lipski to install a three-story piece with a circus elephant balancing on a tall tree trunk with a heron on its head was rejected by the Federal Way city council.