The public is invited to a community meeting to brainstorm ideas for new uses and activities at Greenwood Park from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 16, at the Salvation Army, 9501 Greenwood Ave.
A volunteer group called Vision Greenwood Park is working in partnership with the Seattle Parks and Recreation Department. The meeting will be facilitated by Site Workshop, a Seattle-based landscape architecture firm.
Greenwood Park is located between Fremont and Evanston Avenues and North 87th and 89th Streets. There are four lots on the Fremont Avenue side of Greenwood Park that may become part of the park in the future. Two of them are owned by Seattle Parks and Recreation and two are privately owned (and not currently for sale). A group of neighbors, called Vision Greenwood Park, have come together to lead a community planning process to create a vision for the future of these lots. This vision will follow these guiding principles:
· Plan comprehensively for the long-term use of all four lots
· Engage the community in a process to explore a variety of potential uses.
· Integrate the new lots with the rest of the park.
· Build on the child and young family features of the park and create uses for other groups including, but not limited to, teens and senior citizens.
This is the first of three community meetings that will guide development of a plan for the future of the Fremont Avenue lots. The project is funded by a Neighborhood Matching Fund grant from Seattle Department of Neighborhoods. For more information, check out Vision Greenwood Park’s yahoo group.
6 responses so far ↓
1 etta // Jun 30, 2009 at 11:55 am
Doree, please note that Greenwood Park is actually between Fremont Ave. N. and Evanston Ave. N. (not Linden)
2 Frank the Yankee // Jun 30, 2009 at 12:53 pm
I think the park should look like Tom’s backyard!
3 Neighbor // Jun 30, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Visions of Amy Poehler dance in my head as I read this post …
4 jt // Jul 2, 2009 at 7:54 am
“· Plan comprehensively for the long-term use of all four lots”
I wonder how the property owners feel about that. Shouldn’t this group be called “Vision Greenwood Park and the two privately-owned parcels adjacent to it”?
5 etta // Jul 3, 2009 at 11:47 am
jt, our volunteer group is not ignoring the fact that two properties are privately-owned. We have communicated the intent of the Vision Greenwood Park project to the property owners, and Parks has been in contact with them as well. It does not make sense, financially or otherwise, to: a) let the two Parks-owned properties go unused until the other two are acquired by Parks; or b) create a design and uses for these properties without a vision of a unified plan for all four properties. This approach was endorsed in our first Vision Greenwood Park public meeting held at the Greenwood Senior Center several months ago. There is reason to hope that, one day, the properties will be incorporated into the Park, and it makes sense to plan for that now, rather than later.
We look forward to hearing ideas about what will best serve the community with the expansion of the park. The Thursday, July 16, meeting at the Salvation Army, 9501 Greenwood Ave., 6:30-8:30 pm is one of several upcoming opportunities to voice your opinion.
6 M Hurst Frye // Jul 16, 2009 at 1:11 pm
off leash dog area!
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