Category Archives: Parks & Greenspace

Crown Hill Center, Events, Parks & Greenspace

Small Faces Playground Structure Dedication, 35th Anniversary!

Small Faces Child Development Center will be dedicating their new playground structure and celebrating their 35th Anniversary on Saturday, September 11th, 2010 from 11 AM to 1 PM. Small Faces recently received a Seattle Dept of Neighborhoods Small and Simple Grant to procure and install a new play structure on the playground. With the help of Small Faces Parents, Staff and Community Volunteers who generously donated their time, the play structure is now a reality. This event will be held immediately after the Crown Hill Landmark Tree Walk, so no hard choices to make. Come for the tree walk, and stay for the celebration.

Small Faces Child Development Center is celebrating its 35th year as a Seattle non-profit with a BBQ Potluck We’re inviting any and all alumni and current families to join us for the joyous event.  Come share memories and enjoy musical entertainment and activities for kids.  We’ll be grilling hot dogs and hamburgers, debuting our new school age play structure and creating a mural for the south entrance of the building!

When: Saturday, September 11, 2010 at 11:00 (we’ll be eating at noon)
Where: Small Faces playground
Price of admission: You choose!  We are asking for a donation of any amount to the center for playground and building improvements and a potluck dish to share.

Call Small Faces office for tickets (206) 782-2611

Our Crown Hill, Parks & Greenspace, Sustainability

Our Crown Hill Question 4: Favorite Trees

This is a special edition of the Our Crown Hill Feature. We want to know about your favorite trees in the neighborhood.

The Crown Hill Neighborhood Association is embarking on a special project to catalog and recognize the environmental, historical, and cultural significance of our neighborhood’s trees. As neighbors you can help by sharing your stories about your favorite trees in Crown Hill, whether they are trees you pass by on the street or ones in your own yard. Take a moment to ask your neighbors about their favorite trees too, especially those who have lived in CH a long time or may not have access to the internet!

At the end of the project, the urban tree expert helping with the project will lead a guided tour of our ‘special’ Crown Hill trees. A self-guided tour and the stories we collect will be available for everyone to enjoy on the Crown Hill Neighbors Website. The City is very supportive of this idea, and they want to use our project as a pilot for the rest of Seattle’s neighborhoods. You are welcome to provide information on more than one tree or group of trees. Please note that the trees in Carkeek Park are outside the area for this project.

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Announcements, Crown Hill Center, Parks & Greenspace

Crown Hill School Site Sale Complete!

This wonderful news just in from Catherine Weatbrook:

Congratulations!
Congratulations!

The former Crown Hill Elementary building officially became the property of Small Faces Child Development Center today, June 30th, 2009, just after 2pm. The Crown Hill Project team, made up of representatives of 10 different groups and non-profit organizations, worked through a three year process to secure the building, and surrounding 2+ acres for perpetual community and park use. Seattle Parks purchased the majority of the open space, influenced both by the Neighborhood Planning Process ten years ago, as well as by overwhelming community support. The building, built in 1919 and added on to in 1949, will remain home to current tenants, as well as become the new home of Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society. This dynamic community asset, set next to an up and coming park, will serve as a hub in the Crown Hill Community.

Thank you to everyone who helped during this process and we look forward to the future.

-Catherine Weatbrook
Crown Hill Project Manager

Congratulations to all who have worked so hard and long to see this through. Looking forward to a really big celebration later this summer!

Parks & Greenspace

Crown Hill Park – update on design

At the Crown Hill Neighborhood Association Annual Meeting on May 9, 2009 Parks Department representative Donald Harris told neighborhood residents that we can expect the planning and design process for the Crown Hill Park to recommence at the end of 2009 or beginning of 2010. At this time Parks will meet with the community and revisit the plans that were put on hold over three years ago. The design process normally takes about a year, but because of the work that has already been completed, Harris estimates the timeline will be reduced to eight or nine months. Therefore, in the fall of 2010, at the same time the Fire Department vacates the property, the actual development of the park will begin.Some residents hoped that development could start sooner on areas of the park that are not being used by the Fire Department. Unfortunately, Harris explained, his Department does not have the design and engineering resources to focus on multiple projects simultaneously, and those resources are now fully occupied with economic stimulus projects. A 2010 start date would still place Crown Hill at the front end of projects funded by the six-year Parks and Green Spaces levy of 2008.

As for the chain link fence currently dividing the property, Catherine Weatbrook from the Crown Hill Project/Small Faces emphasized that the fence was a temporary measure without which Small Faces would not have been allowed to remain open. Small Faces intends to discuss options for a nicer looking, permanent fence with neighborhood residents, including where gates will be placed.