The 14th Ave Boulevard Park ground breaking is happening in Spring 2016 and Seattle Parks and Recreation wants your help in naming this new neighborhood gem! Please submit suggestions for park names in writing by Thursday, March 31, 2016, and include an explanation of how your suggestion matches the naming criteria. Send to Seattle Parks and Recreation, Parks Naming Committee, 100 Dexter Ave. N, Seattle, WA 98109, or by e-mail to paula.hoff@seattle.gov.
For more information about the naming process, please visit: http://parkways.seattle.gov/2016/02/19/seattle-parks-and-recreation-seeks-names-for-two-new-parks-in-the-ballard-and-university-district-neighborhoods-and-three-park-sites-along-thornton-creek/#sthash.RG0AkMPv.dpuf
We’re happy to report that the 14th Ave NW Park has reached a new milestone! In City of Seattle terms, it has just reached 90% Complete Street Improvement Plan (SIP). Engineering drawings are now available on the City’s website. When these drawings are approved by Seattle Department of Transportation and once contractors are hired, construction could begin as early as Spring 2016. If all goes well, we may just have a new park by Fall of 2016!
If you’re not an engineering geek and your eyes just glaze over at the site of all those lines in the engineering drawings, then no worries, we sat down with our designers at Mithun and compiled the following overview to help you out…
What’s the park going to look like?
The 14th Ave NW Park is going to be a 2 block linear park that runs along the east side of 14th…
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