Queen Anne News 8-30-2023

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$45M public-private partnership aims to revitalize Seattle waterfront

By Spencer Pauley The Center Square

The city of Seattle, the Downtown Seattle Association and the Port of Seattle have announced a new public-private partnership with the goal of delivering waterfront park improvements at no cost to taxpayers.

The Elliot Bay Connections project intends to construct a new pedestrian and bicycle greenway connecting the new waterfront park to the nearby Olympic Sculpture Park, improve existing sidewalks and key crossings, and add native trees and shrubs along the path to increase the Emerald City's urban tree canopy.

Museum of Museums closing Sept. 1

By Laura Marie Rivera Contributing Writer

“All good things must come to an end” or so the saying goes. After three art-filled years, the Museum of Museums (MoM) will be closing its doors on Sept.

1. Located at 900 Boylston Ave, MoM is a contemporary art center that has been dedicated to increasing the artist population of Seattle and inspiring the local arts ecosystem. They have exhibited thousands of artists, from elementary school kids to some of the most talented

Plans also call for restoring and revitalizing Myrtle Edwards and Centennial Parks, including bringing back public fishing at Pier 86.

The private-public partnership's goal is to complete the revitalization project by the time Seattle hosts the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The quadrennial soccer tournament is one of the most-watched events across the globe. Private funding will guarantee the estimated $45 million cost of construction. Donors to the Elliot Bay Connections project include Melinda French Gates, MacKenzie Scott, the Diller-Von Furstenberg Family Foundation and the Expedia Group.

“Elliott Bay Connections advances our decades-long efforts to reconnect the city to the waterfront, ensuring a seamless transition from downtown and safe, accessible pathways to experience the natural beauty of our region,” Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell said in a statement.

Harrell also announced that the Friends of Waterfront Seattle organization will receive a $10 million challenge grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and an unrestricted $10 million grant from MacKenzie Scott in support of Seattle’s Waterfront Park campaign.

Courtesy Laura Marie Rivera

An elementary school artist poses with their portrait at the Mother's Day art celebration in the Emergence Room gallery.

Museum of Museums occupies a three-story mid-century medical building owned by Swedish Hospital at 900 Boylston Avenue.

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National Preparedness Month is an observance each September to raise awareness about the importance of preparing for disasters and emergencies that could happen at any time.

In 2021, FEMA’s Ready Campaign and the Ad Council broke ground by producing the rst-ever national preparedness campaign speci cally targeting the Latino community for National Preparedness Month. Released during Hispanic Heritage month, the advertisements centered around the Latino community’s commitment to personal planning for occasions and family milestones as a bridge to also planning for disasters.

is one-of-a-kind campaign is committed to putting people rst and reaching communities where they are. To continue these e orts, this year’s National Preparedness Month campaign will feature a call to action for the Black and African American community.

is year’s national public service announcements are being developed and will be released throughout the country this September, to help get preparedness information into the hands of those who live in underserved communities.

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Light rail service between Bellevue and Redmond set to launch next spring

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Sound Transit has cleared the way for the partial start of the East Link light rail Starter Line between South Bellevue and Redmond Technology Stations next spring.

e Sound Transit Board of Directors has authorized up to $43 million from the existing East Link Extension's $3.7 billion budget to fund projects necessary to open the East Link Starter Line in March 2024.

e eight-station segment’s opening was approved by the board on ursday, despite the fact the full East Link light rail extension will not be completed by then. Quality-control issues were discovered along the Interstate 90 portion of the East Link Extension, resulting in the demolition and reconstruction of several concrete bases supporting the structure of the rail line.

Service is proposed to run with two-car trains every 10 minutes, 16 hours a day. e initial light rail service will run between South Bellevue and Redmond Technology

stations, but will also connect passengers to Overlake Medical Center, the Spring District and the BelRed area.

“It’s an exciting step to connect more communities via fast, carbon-free Link light rail, and opening these stations on the Eastside is the opening act of the 2 Line,” Sound Transit Board Chair and King County Executive Dow Constantine said in a statement. “From Redmond to Bellevue, people have a new option to get to work, school, and all the things that make this community special.”

e board is expected in October to approve completion of the East Link Extension project as part of Sound Transit's 2024 Service Plan.

e East Link Extension project was approved by voters in 2008, with construction on the project beginning in 2017.

Light rail trains have been running to test the overhead electrical power system and train signal system. Simulated service is set to begin in early 2024 as part of stress testing of operations.

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According to the city, the campaign is raising $200 million to nish construction of the city’s waterfront park.

e Muckleshoot and Suquamish Tribes were briefed on the Elliott Bay Connections project, which also intends to restore public access to shing in Centennial Park. Leonard Forsman, the chairman of the Suquamish Tribe, said providing public access to shing is part of a tribal priority to educate the public about the importance of preserving water quality.

“ e Suquamish Tribe is excited to learn more about

Elliott Bay Connections and how the project will improve the shoreline and uplands within our ancestral lands and waters on and adjacent to Elliott Bay,” Forsman said.

e public is invited to provide input on the proposed greenway and desired improvements to the waterfront park in the upcoming fall. Following public input, design concepts will be developed and presented before actual design, permitting and construction proceed.

According to the city, donors will provide funding for a decade to support stewardship, once the Elliot Bay Connections project is completed.

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and passionate artists in the Paci c Northwest.

“I believe arts programming should be responsible to the space. We exhibit over 1,000 artists a year!” founder Greg Lundgren said.

Museum of Museums was actually designed as several smaller museums wrapped up into one. Each of the spaces showcased a curated exhibition. And e Emergence Room on the main oor o ered a space for the youngest “emerging” artists with the goal of nurturing the next generation of artists. “It’s one of my favorite galleries to look at,” Lundgren said. “It’s phenomenal. And brings me great joy to see all of the children and their families dressed in their Sunday best and taking photos of their art in a museum!”

Lundgren is an artist and designer with an eye for historical buildings. When he rst noticed the building, it was a humble brick building on the Swedish Hospital campus that had been boarded up and fallen into disrepair. A quick search informed him that it was also a signi cant buildingit is one of the rst projects by the local NBBJ architecture rm. ey

would go on to become a prominent global rm and designed other notable Seattle buildings such as e Gates Foundation and the Amazon Spheres. e building underwent an extensive rehabilitation and the Museum of Museums o cially opened its doors in 2020. But it has not been without challenges.

“From the very beginning, when we set out to restore and re-imagine this mid-century medical building as an art center, we knew that our operations would be tied to the building's capacity to house us,” Lundgren said.

Unfortunately, the 77-year-old building has su ered from signi cant issues culminating with a ood that has le the museum with no sustainable path forward and will close their doors on Sept. 1.

Museum of Museums is thankful for the support of local artists, community members, visitors, and Swedish Hospital for investing in and appreciating the rare and unusual space and hopes that their inspiration will live on in Seattle’s vibrant art scene.

“It will remain a chapter of our lives lled with great memories, incredible art, and remind us of the wealth of artists that call this region home,” Lundgren said.

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Creating a private sanctuary

One de nition of sanctuary is “a place of refuge or safety.”

For many of us, our gardens are places of sanctuary — at least mentally.

Just spending time among my plants transports me to a calmer emotional state but digging in the dirt and hauling a few things is even better. However, my garden could be even more restful with a little more privacy, and perhaps yours could, too.

I have not perfected the art of designing for privacy. From my patio, although I am surrounded by greenery, I can see neighbors on three sides lining the perimeter. Importantly, they can see me as well, meaning I try not to be in my bathrobe very o en. As we live closer together, a sense of privacy becomes more imperative. ere’s just something about a feeling of personal space that allows you to let your psychic walls come down for a minute.

Another reason for wanting to increase a sense of privacy in your garden is to increase visual cohesion and the illusion of garden as a protected enclave. ink of your garden as a stage set. Set designers move mountains with lighting and props to direct your eye to the world they’ve created

center stage, blurring away the set structure, light cans, and sandbags. Whether your style is modern minimal, English border or tropical maximal, your design will have a stronger impact if it’s all you see. Seeing your neighbor’s hot tub, soccer tent, or kayaks will not help.

A privacy toolkit

e rst step is to assess any unwanted views you’d like to block from your main hangout spots. Keep in mind you don’t really need to make it Fort Knox. It’s easier to block the sightlines from the places close to the house you use the most than to try to block two-story buildings on three sides. Lining our fence with 20-feet tall arborvitae is not practical and would make things really dark in here. In contrast, I only need a barrier at about eight feet high to camou age the house of my lovely neighbor to the North while sitting on my patio. Standing views would need a taller block.

Don’t forget to preserve attractive views you’d like to borrow rather than block, like one neighbor’s mature hawthorn tree gracing our fence to the north.

ink about whether you need privacy 365-days a year or primarily in summer. For

the former, you’ll want more solid coverage in evergreen plants or materials, while the latter could be a trellis covered with annual vines, a vertical wall planted with greens or strawberries, or even a deciduous plant with gorgeous winter structure, like a Japanese maple (Acer japonica), or Corokia cotoneaster.

Very o en a scrim is all you need — o ering just a hint of separation that blurs the edges without the heaviness a solid wall adds. In plants, Verbena bonarensis and Gaura lindheimeri ll a space gently holding your attention close with dancing pompoms, or in materials, you can hang streamers, sheer fabric, or add structures of lattice, cattle panel, or carved metal. To gauge the height you need You can take a bamboo stake or broom and hold it between you and the unwanted view. Also note the width. Let’s say the height is eight feet. ere are many ways to get there, with varying widths and opacity.

Consider:

• A three-foot high container planted with a vefoot high plant. (Make sure the plant you choose won’t outgrow the container.)

• Artwork, perhaps an eight-foot tall wooden Sasquatch.

• A trellis panel in-ground or in a pot covered in vines.

• A canvas “sun shade” strung atop two-by-four posts

• An apple, witch-hazel or

camelia espaliered between fence posts.

• An arbor or tuteur (pyramidal trellis)

• Hanging an all-weather decorative fabric panel or mesh canopy

• Carved Cor-Ten rusty metal panels

Some of these solutions are faster than others. If you dream of a jasmine-covered trellis, plant the star jasmine, but add some annual runner beans, thunbergia or sweet peas to ll in for the next few summers. No trellis? Run vertical lines of twine from eye hooks to the ground for the vines to climb.

Boxwood is a popular hedging plant, but glacially slow to mature. Some plants that bulk up pretty quickly include large ornamental grasses, hydrangeas, the aforementioned arborvitae, and Cryptomeria, which I nd more interesting.

Lastly, if you there’s just no way to block the Elephant Car Wash sign from your line

of vision, you can embrace it — framing it and matching colors to it, or you can do what I call an HOV, or “Hey! Over Here!” by creating a beautiful sideshow that calls attention in the foreground, whether of the plant or Sasquatch variety. If you have a stand of sun owers down and to the le , who’s going to mind the elephant looking over the garden?

Photos by Erica Browne Grivas

At the Northwest Flower and Garden Show in 2020, this water feature makes an airy boundary.

In the Seattle garden of Daniel Sparler and Jeff Schouten, shorter evergreen trees placed in the foreground grant privacy while preserving light and space. water feature makes an airy boundary.

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