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Madison Park Times editor Madison Park’s Sarah Armstrong knows what it is like to feel stuck and not sure where to go next in career. She spent eight years contemplating just that and wondering how that would affect the rest of her life and her family. Now the former nurse, healthcare attorney and mediator helps other people as they navigate major life changes in her new career as a change and transition strategist. “Our lives are full of major changes, and for most of the major life changes, we don’t need help we just kind of go do it and we get the result that we get,” she said. Every so often, however, people get stuck and want to make a change in their life but don’t know how. They may talk about it to friends or family but never act upon it for whatever reason, Armstrong said. As a change strategist, Armstrong helps them people overcome those barriers. Most of Armstrong’s clients are between 40 and 75 years old, people old enough to have experienced a number of life changes in the past but want to be more prepared to deal with future ones, or they are people who want to make sure they make the most of their remaining years. “They don’t want to repeat past mistakes, and they don’t want to think too small,” Armstrong said. A change strategist is different from a life coach, which has a very broad job description. It is also different from career coaches, who help people do their job well, Armstrong said. She is also not a therapist. “Therapists help you understand why you feel the way you feel and give you skills to heal your trauma,” Armstrong said. “But as a change strategist, I help people clarify what they feel and how it’s having an impact on their decision making in this major life change.” Armstrong said, at first, her clients see her every two weeks in the “strategic phase.” That phases entails gaining clarity about what the major change is in a person’s life, how is it challenging them and assessing how they are living their life right now and how this major change is impacting other aspects of their life. From there, Armstrong and her client create a vision for their life with more possibilities. Armstrong said her clients
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The merriment of it all
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e, the thriving and inquisitive students of J. J. McGilvra’s, were especially riveted to what adults were doing in the 1940s. Most intriguing to us was the draw of the taverns in Madison Park. There were three then, and although they were quiet during the day, with just a few regulars, at sunset the ladies appeared via the rear door joining the ever-increasing crowd. The big Wurlitzer juke box was turned up, and soon everyone was laughing and dancing. This frivolity was a far cry from what we kids saw during the day of quiet neighbors talking over the fence. The makeup of residents didn’t change much after the war when families moved to find work elsewhere. Madison Park suddenly had many home and apartment vacancies along with the stores and restaurants on the Avenue closing. Soon the area started perking up after folks noticed what the area had to offer. College students, airline staff finding themselves based in Seattle and other singles were happy to find reasonably priced dwellings. The Quality Café had been popular, but in 1953 it was in the midst of a total change. It was becoming a tavern and it would be called “The Attic.” Peeking through the torn paper on the windows, you could see sheet music on the walls from the 1910s, sawdust on the floor, big wooden barrels for tables and smaller ones fashioned into chairs. Above the bar hung a broom with a horn, rear-view mirror, a bicycle seat and handle bars. Nearby, the Red Onion was serving the influx of new singles
Japanese culture festival coming up this month The Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Washington is presenting Bunka No Hi, a Japanese culture festival, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 12 through Nov. 14 at 1414 S. Weller St., Seattle. Bunka No Hi is a holiday in Japan that celebrates Japanese culture. This is a free festival dedicated
from all parts of Seattle. Being on the lean side of 21, my friends and I spent many an evening watching this happy phenomenon, sometimes finding music that befitted the mood. These two taverns were so popular that they, along with the Lynnwood Tavern that my uncle John Swank owned, were rated the top 10 in Washington state! It was time to join this society. As we sat in a friend’s car drinking beer, we decided to make the change from observer to participant. We moved in amongst the crowd in The Attic looking for a spot to land and found a section for four. With an almost adult voice, one of us ordered a pitcher, four glasses and some peanuts. 1950s music in the background, we toasted our breakthrough and threw the peanut shells onto the floor, which was encouraged. Years later, when we wished one of the original four happy 21st birthday, Mac McCart, the owner at the time, laughed and said, “It’s about time! You’ve been coming in here for three years!” A true camaraderie existed, and “The Stein Club” was formed. Some 200 steins hung from hooks with everyone’s names. If you were a member, a schooner was only 35 cents. Now part of the social scene, we were invited to keggers, small dinner parties and drop-ins. Sometimes invitations were left on the bar or mailed, which was considered a formal invite. That was usually from four or five flight attendants leasing homes from owners who were gone for the winter. We entered one party, accepted the obligatory champagne from the waitstaff and listened to a musical group playing in the background. Hors d’oeuvres were served while a fire roared in to celebrating, commemorating and educating the public about Japanese and Japanese American culture. Children, families, and the general public are encouraged to attend this free event! No appointment necessary. This year, the festival will showcase traditional crafts from all over Japan. The exhibit will display pottery, lacquerware, textiles, baskets, woodwork, metalware,
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over the top took place near the tennis club with plenty of keggers; it was a little over the line for a house party. The next morning, I attempted to find my car and was forced to announce, “Where’s my car?” I passed the bakery, and across the street a friend called out loudly, “Lehman? Lose your car?” Laughing, he told me where it was. I was hoping, like in the Western movies, I could just whistle and my horse/car would show up. The Park always was and is a fun time, and we are thrilled to be a part of it.
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Tour of “Mean Girls” — the new record-breaking musical comedy produced by Lorne Michaels, Stuart Thompson, Sonia Friedman and Paramount Pictures based on the hit film — will be coming to The Paramount Theatre Nov. 16 through Nov. 21 as part of the 2021-2022 Broadway Season. Go to seattle.broadway.com/shows/mean-girls-21/ for times or to buy tickets. Tickets
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MP Hub: We are here for each other
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hroughout history, across the globe when disasters happen, there is an outpouring of local support for search and rescue, shelter, food, medical care and more. This tradition of responding to neighbors in need underpins the network of more than 140 emergency communication hubs across Seattle. A hub is a group of volunteers coming together in their own neighborhood to plan and practice how they will provide assistance to each other after a disaster when traditional communication systems — phone, internet, social media — and other basic services — transportation, power, healthcare, police, fire and rescue — are disrupted. Madison Park volunteers have been meeting to reboot our emergency communication hub and recently held a practice drill in the park by the tennis courts. We timed this event to coordinate with the annual worldwide Great Shakeout Day, the third Thursday of October, this year, Oct. 21. This was an activity to both educate our neighbors about how to get prepared and to practice our short-wave and print-based communication systems to respond to scenarios we anticipate will emerge during a disastrous event such as the anticipated large-scale, destructive earthquake standing in the wings, or should we say in waves and shifts of tectonic plates off the coast of the Pacific Northwest. What neighbors should know The pre-determined Madison Park hub location where we will gather to exchange information and resources is at the tennis court-area of the playground, across from the beach house. After a disaster, this is where we will sort out immediate needs and skills and transfer information to and from the Seattle Office of Emergency Management and other neighborhood hubs with a shortwave radio setup. It’s important to know that this is NOT a place where there will be food, water or medical supplies, so this is why you should prepare your own home with these basics for survival, which you can easily learn about with an online search. Following a catastrophic event, you should first secure your own household and check on other neighbors in your building or on your block. Learn more about out how to prepare and organize yourselves with those in your
“A hub is a group of volunteers coming together in their own neighborhood to plan and practice how they will provide assistance to each other after a disaster with traditional communication systems ... and other basic services ... are disrupted.” immediate area by visiting https:// www.seattle.gov/emergency-management/prepare/prepare-yourneighborhood/seattle-neighborhoods-actively-prepare. Once you and your neighbors have gathered, you’ll identify any needs anyone has or skills or resources they could offer to others outside your building or block. Then, one or two people from your group brings this list of needs and offers of support to the hub by the Madison Park tennis courts. By then, the hub should be open to help match your needs and resources with that of others who have convened in the park. How you can help Hubs are 100 percent volunteer and community led. Whatever skills and amount of time you have to offer, you can help us prepare as a community to be ready to offer mutual aid. You can: • Join the MP Hub volunteers and learn how the hub operates after a disaster; • Participate in the practice drills at the MP Hub; • Become a liaison with local Madison Park businesses and groups to engage them in supporting hub activities; • Get a license and experience in shortwave radio communication; • Sign up for emergency alerts through apps such Seattle and King County Emergency Alerts and Smart 911, which gives first responders important information about your household; • Participate in useful online or in-person classes on topics such as search and rescue, first aid and utility management. To learn more or get involved, contact one of our volunteer hub team members: • Sarah Armstrong, saraharmstrong215@gmail.com, • Mary Beth McAteer, msimiele1@gmail.com, • Margie Carter margiecarter@ comcast.net.
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Photo by Charles Risen from Pixabay London plane trees like this one line the sidewalk between 41st Avenue East on 42nd in Madison Park. The plane tree is considered to be a natural hybrid between the Oriental sycamore and the American sycamore.
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By Steve Lorton Tree Talk
Hang out for long with serious gardeners, and at some point a debate will erupt around a newly introduced plant: Which is better, the species (the parent) or the hybrid? Purists will most often say the species. It’s just in their DNA. In the early 1970s, when my thumbs were not truly green but I was, the legendary Betty Miller, obviously attempting to take my measure as a plantsman, pounced on me with a question: “Which do you prefer, hybrids or species.” It was May in her famous Highlands garden. We were looking at rhododendrons in bloom. New to the Pacific Northwest and dazzled by the gigantic blooms and popsicle colors of rhodys, I said I found the hybrids impressive. “So!” She scorned, “you like cabbages!” I shook in my Birkenstocks and have never been quite the same. Now, I always look critically at any newly introduced plant and ask myself, “Is this really an improvement over nature?” A few weeks ago I was walking on Madison Street toward the lake. I’d crossed to the south side at Bert’s to enjoy the massive and handsomely mottled trunks and canopy of the London plane trees (Platanus x acerifolia) that line the sidewalk between 41st Avenue East and 42nd on that side of the street. You can also see a line of these stately giants just as you enter the UW Arboretum from the south end. They tower along the east side of the drive between Madison Street and the Stone Cottage. The origins of the London plane tree are murky. It is considered to be a natural hybrid between the Oriental sycamore
(P. orientalis) and the American sycamore (P. occidentalis). According to most sources, the two species were planted in the London garden of English naturalist John Tradescant (circa 1570 to 1638). Both plants had been collected and were growing. A romance developed, they cross pollinated (these things happen) and the hybrid London plane tree was born. Scottish botanist William Aiton (1731-1793) was appointed director of the newly established Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in 1759. Aiton first mentions the tree in his publication “Hortus Kewensis” in 1789. The tree had a near symmetrical form; it would eventually stretch up to a height of 120 feet. Its large three- to five-lobed leaves are the size of a human hand, rich green. Ball-shaped bristly seed clusters dangle from stems, hanging on the branches well into winter after this deciduous tree has defoliated. The old bark peels off throughout the year, exposing shining new bark beneath in shades of cream, green (pea, jade and celadon), silvery gray and brown (sometimes rusty). The bark is beautiful and often the subject of close-up, tightly framed photographs. The overall effect is that of looking at a Paul Horiuchi collage. The plane tree was immediately planted all over London, where it proved to stand up to the infamous coal smog of the capital. The tree’s popularity was rock star meteoric, spreading throughout the United Kingdom and on into northern Europe. In France it was popular because it responded quite well to pollarding. This is the practice of annually cutting all limbs off, down to a nub of a trunk, then allowing the new
switches to shoot out in spring like gigantic bouquets, only to be cut off completely,at the end of the following winter. In my opinion, this is horticultural torture, ugly in all seasons. Confront a French gardener with this opinion, and they will likely shrug and, in an annoying, nonchalant tone, mutter “C’est la vie.” Following its rambunctious spread in Europe, the London plane tree crossed The Pond, likely in the early to mid-19th century to be greeted by fawning American garden designers like a visit by Victoria herself. “Ah… isn’t she exquisite!” No. I was thinking about all this as I strolled down Madison under those venerable trees, but I was also feeling slightly petulant. Cognitive dissonance had reared its perplexing head. I’d just come back from three weeks in western Ohio, where I was born and grew up. There, I’d walked the banks of wide muddy rivers and listened to the singing insects, the chirping birds, the rustle of wind in the leaves and the low groan of swaying limbs. It’s heavenly, right down to the slightly musty scent of the earth and the lilting aroma of the grasses. I was reconnected with my Huckleberry Finn childhood, and soaring up here and there among the natural arboretum of hardwoods were American sycamores. Their limbs were snow white, the branching pattern was irregular, artistically so. To see them, as they stretch up and out through the dark green foliage of lower growers into a bluer-than-blue sky is like watching a dance by Martha Graham. Rosemary Verey would
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“I’m very committed to self determination: that someone feels that they have a process and the clarity to make realistic choices and that they are positioned to live the largest vision that they have of themselves.” The second part of a client’s journey is the manifestation phase, where they take the plan and begin to enact it. Armstrong said it is not unusual for people to need to revisit the first, liminal, phase as they realize nothing is exactly as they think it will be and they need to adjust their expectations or plan. “No one can predict what they will experience,” Armstrong said. After recognizing the unexpected challenges and making any necessary adjustments, people return to the manifest stage and carry out their refined plans. After that meetings with Armstrong are less frequent, and
she serves more of a mentor role, discussing with them how their goals are being realized. “They come away with a template for how to make major life changes in the future,” Armstrong said. “Now they have an internal structure that they did not have before, and they can use that prototype where they can go through future life changes.” Armstrong said the work she did in her previous career roles have served her well as a change strategist as they entailed helping people during tumultuous times. She also successfully navigated her own career change by becoming a change strategist four years ago. The field is a small one, although the practices taught have been studied and accepted in many fields for a number of years. Armstrong said she began her journey when she took a meditation course from former publish-
ing CEO turned meditation teacher Phillip Moffitt. Armstrong said Moffitt had shared tips for successfully navigating a career change with Silicon Valley professionals for 30 years before deciding to share his insight with others. “And these are all people who are highly successful professionals, and they have come to appreciate the need for clarity and living your life in balance and authenticity,” Armstrong said. After enrolling in Moffitt’s life change strategy program and completing over two-years of coursework, she was among the first graduating class in 2018. To learn more about Armstrong’s practice, visit www.sarahjarmstrong.com, LinkedIn: www. linkedin.com/in/sarahjarmstrong/. Visit the change strategist national website at https://skillfulchange.org.
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skies with their bold white lines. Yet, those massive trunks along Madison Street with their huge, yet unobtrusive limbs and density of foliage make for city trees that are as good as street trees get. They are proof that our village is old and anchored. Alas, I cannot pick a favorite. It boils down to the right plant for the right place. In the rich, perpetually damp alluvial soil of Midwestern valleys, I want to see the breathtaking, albeit often unruly, beauty of the American sycamore. Along our streets, the London plane. No “best” needed, really. There’s a right place for
about everything. So, back to Betty Miller, whom I grew to admire immeasurably and who became a friend. Had I been the target of her zinger, today, the current me would have responded not with quaking limbs and a sense of shame for being stupid. No, I’d have said this: “I love them all. Certainly the purity of the species is to be honored and celebrated. Hybrids can create an altogether different thing. Each has its virtues. As for cabbages, they’re beautiful too. Quite delicious, by the way, and the source of sauerkraut.”
proclaim them “rhapsodic.” They would make Edward Weston and Ansel Adams break out their cameras. I could go on. I’ll stop now, but, like pork roast with mashed potatoes and sauerkraut, I love this tree. It’s comfort food for the soul. So, the big question: American Sycamore or London plane tree — which is better, the hybrid or the species? Well, I’d love to see American sycamores scattered here and there throughout our parks, piercing our silvery gray winter
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Seattle Storm to build practice facility in Interbay By Jessica Keller
Madison Park Times editor Mayor Jenny Durkan signed legislation in October that paves the way for construction of an indoor sporting facility in Interbay that will serve as a practice center for the Seattle Storm. Durkan said the practice facility was needed because the four-time WNBA champions do not have their own practice facility. Currently, the team practices at Seattle Pacific University and are constrained to their scheduled gym time. “Seattle, we’re better than that,” Durkan said in the virtual press conference, adding the Storm are the most-decorated professional sports team in the city and are active in the community. “They are our hometown heroes. … They gave our city so much hope during COVID.” Durkan said Seattle supports its sports teams, and the Storm have been good community partners through the years. “We’ve seen this city almost move heaven and earth for our male sports teams,” she said, adding she was happy to sign this legislation for the Storm. As it turns out, putting the Storm’s plans into motion did not require moving heaven and earth, just amending a size provision for indoor sports facilities in the Ballard Interbay Northend Manufacturing Industrial Center. Durkan’s legislation last week increased the size from 10,000 square feet to 50,000 square feet. At the press conference, Storm
Storm Practice facility
The new Seattle Storm practice facility will be 48,000 square feet. It will feature: • Two basketball courts • A Storm team center with separate player and visitor lockers • Player lounge • Food and nutrition center; • Areas for fitness and strength training • Area infrastructure technology • Diagnostics and physical therapy spaces • Coaching and administrative offices co-owner Ginny Gilder said the Storm will use all of the site, 1616 W. Bertona St., for its practice facility and parking. “While the Emerald City has been our home for 21 years, the WNBA has changed,” she said. “So the practice facility is no longer a nice to have, but a gotta have.” Gilder said Friday that the business arrangement between Seattle Pacific University and the Storm for players to practice at SPU has worked well, but the Storm has to adjust to the changing landscape of the WNBA if it is to be competitive. “What’s changed is kind of the what it means to be a WNBA franchise,” Gilder said, adding franchises are starting to rethink what kind of profile they want to have. With the rise in the salary cap,
top players have more flexibility to choose where they want to play, Gilder said. “So, if you want to keep a Breanna Stewart in your market, you’re going to want to make sure your franchise is attractive to her,” Gilder said, referring to the Storm forward and MVP of the 2020 WNBA finals. Gilder said this will be the first WNBA practice facility designed and built specifically for a WNBA team alone, and not in conjunction with another team. “This is a way to put a mark on the community and distinguish itself,” Gilder said. While specifics of what the practice facility will entail are still being worked out, Gilder said it will be designed for the Storm players in mind, with ample locker room space and a place for the players to relax. “It’s going to have a feel to it,” Gilder said. “You know when you walk into a health club or gym, and you just know when you look that this is where the men play? There’s just a feel to it.” She said, while men and boys will not be excluded from the facility, the Storm owners consider a practice facility built for their players a worthwhile investment for the team, Seattle and the WNBA. “ The world is changing in women’s pro basketball, and the Storm wants to change the world of women’s basketball,” Gilder said. Gilder said the independently owned Storm has been slowly building its empire since she and
her two partners bought it in 2008. She said, at the time, the Storm were “the tail on the Sonics’ dog.” “It was a tiny part of their business, and we were going to take this flea and make it the dog in our business, and we have the responsibility to invest, not behind the curve, but in front of the curve,” Gilder said, adding the practice facility is the latest step in their efforts to do that. The building will also be for the community, she said. According to the development plan, the facility will serve the Seattle Storm and a “youth-focused basketball skill development center with programming specifically focused on girls and under-served communities typically excluded by financial
or transportation constraints.” Gilder said the plan is to get the building up as soon as possible, and the team has hired Queen Anne developer Maria Barrientos, BarrientosRyan LLC, as the development manager. Gilder said, as soon as city officials approved the change to the zoning, they submitted the preapplication that night. Gilder said she hopes the facility will be a positive addition to the Interbay community. Not only will building the center create additional jobs, it will replace a vacant lot bordered by RV’s, across from the Storm’s current offices on Thorndyke with a nice-looking facility. “It’ll change the feel of the neighborhood,” Gilder said.
Preparing for your movement ‘worst-case scenario’
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hinking about your environa worst-case ment there scenario for your may be things movement may sound that prevent morbid, but for the puryou from pose of this article, let moving well, us assume that for this exercising like scenario it is not resultyou should or ing in any death. obstacles that For some, having a pose unusual movement catastrophe hazards. The might mean an overactivities you Dr. Dan Michael exertion event during perform on Northwest Sports a sporting event or a day-to-day practice. Others may exbasis may be perience a rare obstacle where you are in the home or a chance event challenged the most and pose a in public going about their daily potential for an overuse event, or lives. Either way, all of us will at it may be that you are building some point come up against an towards an under-use injury by unpredictable event that explores living a sedentary lifestyle. Also, the limitations of our moveour psychology can change how ment capacity, and the question we move, how we posture, and all you might ask yourself is, “Am I of it can cause aberrant biomeready?” chanics. Living in a chronic state How I approach these kinds of stress, depression or anxiety of problems is to do a holistic can be the thing that pushes your evaluation, which can include the body past the limit and even patient’s environment, activities, make you more sensitive to pain physical condition, psychological or stimulus. Finally, your movestate and movement health hisment and health history are most tory. A holistic evaluation needs to commonly where the main issues be performed because it provides reside, such as any past injuries a window into where problems are you’ve sustained, surgeries, chronic likely to crop up. For example, in health issues you may harbor or
lack of experience moving well. How to solve the movement “worst-case scenario” problem and provide movement security has changed in recent years. We used to discuss “injury prevention” as if we could somehow predict these scenarios with some level of certainty, but we now know that humans are terrible predictors of the future, and predicting injuries is no exception. Alternatively, we now believe that focusing on “injury resilience” is the best approach. The fact of life is that things often happen to us that are out of our control, and your best strategy is to control the things you can and be resilient to the rest. You become resilient by identifying and managing your risks while maximizing your resiliency at an acceptable, reasonable and individual level. These ideas are better demonstrated by a fictional example: We could say her name is Mary, who is a senior and lives in a three-bedroom home with her husband and a small dog. She plays a leisure sport three days per week and does yoga twice a week. She goes for walks every day but doesn’t quite meet her 10,000 steps a day goal. She
has regular medical checks for a chronic thyroid condition that is well managed with medication, and she is post-menopausal. She has had two children and enjoys traveling to visit them throughout the year, but she is unable to manage heavy suitcases since she had a back injury eight years ago lifting a suitcase out of the car at the airport. Now heavy lifting is done by her husband. Mary knows that her balance is not very good, and she struggles to get up and down from the floor because of knee pain that comes and goes and is managed with over-the-counter medication and rest. She takes vitamins when she remembers and has a family history of cardiovascular disease and arthritis. Through the example of Mary, it is clear that she has tremendous opportunity for increasing her injury resilience and improving her health profile. Weight-bearing exercise for those at risk of low bone density — osteopenia and osteoporosis — is known to slow, stop or, in some cases, improve bone mineral density in senior populations. Moving, and moving well, is a top treatment for osteoarthritic conditions, and learning effec-
tive movement strategies as well as improving the performance of the soft tissues around the area promote resilience to movement stress and strain. It is also clear that there is a spinal issue that has gone untreated and potentially undiagnosed, and there is fear avoidance behavior preventing Mary from heavy lifting. Regarding supplements, Mary likely lives in the Pacific Northwest and is at a risk of vitamin D deficiency and even with supplementation may still be deficient. Ideally, Mary would consult with her healthcare team to address these issues proactively and implement strategies that are practiced on a daily and weekly basis. If you are unsure how to think about your risks, or don’t know how to prepare for a worst-case movement scenario, contact your healthcare team to assess your unique situation. If you don’t yet have a healthcare team, or are in need of a provider to act in a movement health capacity, contact our office, and one of our capable providers would be glad to meet with you, assess you and make a recommendation specific to you and your health needs.
November 2021
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Climate Pledge Arena celebrates grand opening Newly renovated facility home to Seattle Kraken, Seattle Storm
lated the Oak View Group, the arena's development company, for its commitment to building an environmentally friendly facility. “This commitment to sustainability impacts us now and well into the future because the future of commercial construction has a critical role to play in reducing the emissions that are harming our communities, our climate, our seas, our forests and the Earth itself," Inslee said. The 800,000-square-foot arena is home to the NHL Seattle Kraken, the four-time WNBA champions Seattle Storm and Seattle University teams. It has a 17,100-person capacity for hockey and a 18,100 capacity for basketball fans. When not used for athletics, the arena will host more than 100 events and concerts per year. On Oct. 23, the Seattle Kraken played their opening game at their new home, falling to the Canucks, 4-2. Visit climatepledgearena.com to learn more about Climate Pledge Arena.
QAMAG News staff report Residents, arena stakeholders and local and state officials, including Gov. Jay Inslee celebrated the grand opening of Climate Pledge Arena with a number of events in late October. The celebration kicked off with a ribbon cutting ceremony Oct. 22 in which officials and stakeholders lauded the efforts behind the opening of the new arena at the Seattle Center in Uptown. The arena, which cost $1.15 billion to renovate, broke ground in December 2018 and wrapped up early fall. It is the first net-zero arena for greenhouse gas emissions. In his remarks, Inslee congratu-
Photo courtesy Gov. Jay Inslee Facebook Washington Gov. Jay Inslee speaks to a crowd at the ribbon cutting ceremony of Climate Pledge Arena Oct. 22 in Uptown as part of a week of activities, which culminated in grand opening tours and a harvest market Oct. 24.
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