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Waterfront/Realized Event at Impact HUB

WATERFRONT/REALIZED––a preview of Waterfront Seattle’s 30% design milestone with landscape architect James Corner

Hosted by Friends of Waterfront Seattle
Tuesday, March 4, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
At The Impact HUB in Pioneer Square

Tickets: $10
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CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE AND PURCHASE TICKETS

Curious about our central waterfront’s exciting future? Join Friends of Waterfront Seattle for a special presentation of the 30% design unveiling for Waterfront Seattle with dim sum and beer on March 4th at The Impact HUB in Pioneer Square. Achieving 30% design is a major milestone of the project’s maturation from concept to reality, allowing for the implementation of the public space plan to move forward.

As one of the largest sustainable development projects of its kinds nationwide, Waterfront Seattle will help shape our City’s future by reinventing our central waterfront as a vibrant, dynamic public space. This project encompasses: the rebuilding of the Elliot Bay Seawall; a thoughtful redesign of Alaskan Way; and a bold public space plan that transforms the 2-mile stretch from Pioneer Square to Belltown.

World-renowned landscape architect and lead designer of the project’s public spaces James Corner will share the latest design developments. All ticket proceeds will go towards supporting Friends of Waterfront Seattle’s mission to champion this momentous civic project that will make our urban shoreline a lively and magnetic destination for all. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE AND PURCHASE TICKETS.

Link to event page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/waterfrontrealizeda-preview-of-waterfront-seattles-30-design-with-landscape-architect-james-corner-tickets-10545364469?ref=ebtn

Heidi Hughes

Executive Director

Friends of Waterfront Seattle

901 5th Avenue, Suite 2200

Seattle, WA 98164

206.747.0667 (mobile)

Seattle Neighborhood Summit

Saturday, April 5th, 9 am to 1 pm, Seattle Center Exhibition Hall

Update: The Neighborhood Summit has been moved from the Seattle Center Pavilion Room to the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall to accommodate more participants. Please update your plans.

As part of his first 100 days in office, Mayor Ed Murray is holding a Neighborhood Summit at the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall on Saturday, April 5th, 9 am to 1 pm. Neighborhood community leaders and members are invited to come and discuss how the City of Seattle can improve the way it works with neighborhoods.

“I want to build strong relationships with the leaders of these neighborhoods and community members and keep an open dialogue as well as build an administration where no one has to ask for a space at the table,” says Murray.

The City is offering other ways to get involved with the summit if you are not able to attend. Fill out the online survey and let the mayor know what’s important to your neighborhood. During the event, social media and technology is planned to reach audiences outside of the summit forum.

SDOT asks for public input on parking pay stations

The Seattle Department of Transportation plans to replace all its parking pay stations between the summer of 2014 and the end of 2016 with new technology.

A one-month on-street trial will take place from February 14 to March 14, along Fourth Avenue between Stewart and Bell streets. There will be seven different models being tested, from four different vendors. During this time, SDOT invites the public to provide feedback regarding the aesthetics, ease of use and overall impression of each of the pay station models by completing a survey available online at http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/parking/newpaystations.htm.

New technology will provide a higher level of customer service and communications reliability, and will be better able to handle more complex parking rate programming requirements. It will also better integrate with other current and future parking management technologies and systems, from pay by phone to Seattle Police Parking Enforcement.

Seattle has approximately 2,200 parking pay stations that control paid parking for about 12,000 on-street parking spaces in Seattle. The oldest pay stations were first installed in 2004 and are coming to the end of their useful lives.