Parks & Greenspace

Ideas wanted for parks!

Parks/Green Spaces Opportunity Fund:

We want your ideas for increasing green space in Crown Hill!

The Parks and Green Spaces Levy Oversight Committee is now accepting proposals for using the Levy’s Opportunity Fund to develop more parks and open spaces in Seattle, including for the acquisition of properties.  The Opportunity Fund from the Pro Parks Levy of 2000 was what was used to purchase the property at 17th and 62nd, which is now Ballard Corners Park, as well as the former Seventh Elect Church on 9th Ave NW, which also is to be developed into a park.

Please let us know (park@crownhillneighbors.org)  if you have ideas for parks and open space development, whether it is a derelict building, an existing open space on which you would like to see improvements made, or some other creative idea.  We are looking for ideas beyond the park at the Crown Hill Elementary property–that one is already in the bag!  CHNA wants to collect feedback and help advance our neighborhood’s top choices through the selection process.  The deadline for proposals is February 1.

More information on the Opportunity Fund can be found at www.cityofseattle.net/parks/levy/opportunity.htm

Businesses

Books….donate, trade, buy

The book store closest to Crown Hill that we know of will be the new Couth Buzzard that will open soon on Greenwood Avenue at 84th Street.  The owners invite you to drop off books you want to donate or those you want to offer for a credit.  Starting October 5, Gerry and Theo will be ready to take materials. Their tentative opening date for the new location is November 1.  If you were a customer/trader at the former Couth Buzzard, there’s good news that they still have their record of $$$ credits you might have accumulated from trading in used books.

Couth Buzzard was displaced from their former location in the Kens Market building at 73rd and Greenwood when Kens Market began its expansion.