The 4Culture newsletter has reported that San Francisco Bay area artist Verda Alexander has been selected to create original art for the walls of a new building being constructed in Fremont, at 743 N 35th St.
The Seattle Department Of Transportation will begin construction in January on the new Westlake Cycle Track, with the finished bike route expected for completion in summer 2016.
The City of Seattle will be dividing up its Department of Planning & Development (DPD) in the new year. With the retirement of DPD Director Diane Sugimura, the department that handles building permits, land use zoning, occupancy, and inspections, will be split in two. The two new departments will be the Seattle Department of Construction & Inspections and the Office of Planning & Community Development.
The Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, in partnership with the Seattle Department of Parks & Recreation, is seeking an artist, or a team of artists, to design, fabricate and install a site-integrated artwork piece for outdoors in a new park to be located at the intersection of Westlake Avenue and Lenora Street.
Starting this week, the construction team working on the North Seattle Transfer Station will begin transforming the parking lot at Carr Place N and Woodlawn Ave N into a public play area.
Into November, access to NW Canal Street from 2nd Ave NW will be closed as crews connect the new City of Seattle Combined Sewer Overflow drain pipe to the existing city sewer system.
The Seattle Department of Planning & Development (DPD) has extended the comment period on the update to the Seattle Comprehensive Plan to November 20th. Community feedback is still being collected, at public meetings in October and November.
On Wednesday, October 21st, from 7p – 8:30p, Seattle Parks & Recreation invites the community to review schematic designs and provide feedback on the planned Sensory Garden at Woodland Park Zoo. The community is encouraged to participate in this review, taking place at the Phinney Neighborhood Association Red Room, to better create a garden for all.
Notices are posted on Kylie’s Chicago Pizza announcing the temporary closure of the delicious, deep-dish pizzeria in the Fremont Village Square building, the last retail business to be in operation over this past summer in this mixed-use commercial/office building.
Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) is currently building a new North Seattle Transfer Station near Stone Way between N 34th & N 35th Streets. In the weekly construction update to neighbors they reported that work will be going on this Saturday, September 19th, from 9a – 5p, on the elevated deck.
