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Green Lake Advisory Council

The Green Lake Advisory Council will enhance the Pathway of Lights event with a hot air balloon (night glow) show on the playfields at Green Lake. Hot air balloons will be set up at dusk and inflated as if they are going to take off, but instead of being allowed to ascend they will be tethered to the ground. The balloons will glow like huge light bulbs or lanterns, giving a spectacular display for Pathway of Lights visitors. The event is on December 9th from 4:30pm to 9:30pm at the Greenlake Community Center, 7201 East Greenlake Drive North.

Green Lake Advisory Council

The Green Lake Advisory Council is hosting its 47th annual Pathway of Lights at Green Lake located at 7201 East Green Lake Dr N Seattle WA on Saturday, December 13, 2025, from 4:30-7:30 pm. This free special event marks the start of the winter season and has become a lauded community tradition. At sunset, Green Lake is transformed with 2.8 miles of luminaries into a radiant, sparkling oasis. On any given year, up to 20,000 visitors descend on Green Lake for this festive and much beloved celebration. The Green Lake Advisory Council will enhance this year's event with a hot air balloon "night glow" on the playfields at Green Lake Community.

Making Broadview Better, Together

Making Broadview Better, Together will hire a landscape architecture firm to develop a pathway design for the unimproved right-of-way adjacent to the roadway on N/NW 132nd Street between Greenwood Ave N and 3rd Ave NW. The goal is to calm traffic and increase pedestrian safety by providing a protected walkway. The design process will include extensive community outreach including a series of public meetings, ending in the fall of 2018.

Pelican Tea Garden Collective P-Patch

The Pelican Tea Garden Collective P-Patch will engage gardeners and community members to plan, and organize the purchase, assembly, and placement of a outdoor storage container,plants, compost bin,community table and seating area at the Pelican Tea P-Patch garden located on 1909 E Roy St. during Winter 2019 and Spring 2020.

Pen to Pad Planning Committee

The Pen to Pad Planning Committee will host a public event that promotes literacy and shares the experiences of local authors of color. The event will be held on November 2, 2017 from 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm at the Northwest African American Museum located at 2300 S. Massachusetts St. There will be music, food, and a facilitated creative writing activity.

Friends of Woodland Park Avenue

Phase 1 of Woodland Park Ave N Traffic Calming Project will seek a solution for the increasing speeding problem on the stretch of Woodland Park Ave N between 42nd and 43rd streets. The anticipated project close out date is February 28, 2023.

Interbay P-Patch Community Garden

This is Phase 2 of the Universal Accessibility Inclusive Garden beds - phase 1 was to build the foundation and lay the gravel. Phase 2 is to purchase the troughs to be used as raised beds and fill them with the soil that was removed from the plots. Additionally, an edge will be done around the plot.

Dr. Jose Rizal Park Restoration Project

Philippines Lantern Holiday Festival will be held on Saturday, December 14, 2019 from 1:00 PM to 9:00 PM at the Dr. Jose Rizal Park, located at 1007 12th Ave S Seattle WA 98144. The event will promote and preserve the Philippine holiday tradition by showcasing and sharing traditional lanterns, treats, arts, and culture.

One Reel

Pianos in the Parks enables neighborhoods to showcase local artists and bring communities together for free outdoor musical performances. Participating neighborhoods will have the opportunity to present talented artists and musicians in their area and each will have one paid position for an artist to be assigned a piano in their park. This project will be completed by January 31, 2020.

Friends of Picardo Farms P-patch

The Friends of Picardo Farm P-Patch will revitalize the abandoned Master Gardeners' demonstration garden at Picardo Farm P-Patch to provide a safe, contemplative space as an asset to the neighborhood. They will replant it with an edible landscape, add a patio and picnic table, and build a bin to hold wood chips that are essential to keeping the paths of the P-Patch safe and mud-free. Improvements will be completed by June 2018, followed by a community celebration.

Kids and Paper

Kids & Paper will introduce Pickleball, Washington's Official State Sport, to low-income, BIPOC kids aged 5 to 12 in Seattle. Playing both indoors and outdoors year-round, we will work with community partners to reduce health disparities and strengthen our participants' academic and social/emotional skills.

Friends of Eckstein MS Pickleball

Friends of Eckstein MS Pickleball will convert a damaged tennis court on the site of Eckstein Middle School into 4 permanent pickleball courts for joint use by the public and Eckstein students. A consultant firm will be hired to lead the public engagement process and to develop a schematic design complete with construction costs. Between now and the end of May three public meetings will be held to solicit community input.

Seattle Metro Pickleball Association

The nonprofit Seattle Metro Pickleball Association (SMPA) is requesting Seattle Parks and Recreation's assistance to purchase and install mobile pickleball nets for free use at the Delridge CC shared-use pickleball/tennis courts. The 2017 Pickleball Conversion Pilot Program was well received by Seattle pickleball enthusiasts and we are proposing the next step forward to encourage more public play. Once the nets are located at the courts, the SMPA and its leadership committee will work on community outreach to let the public know about this new accessible opportunity to play pickleball. SMPA will also organize a pickleball event at Delridge this summer or early fall.

Seattle Metro Pickleball Association

Seattle Metro Pickleball Association (SMPA) will purchase and install mobile pickleball nets for free use at the Green Lake (7201 E Green Lake Dr N) and Miller (300 19th Ave E) shared-use pickleball/tennis courts. SMPA will work on community outreach to let the public know about this new accessible opportunity to play pickleball. SMPA will also organize pickleball events free and open to all at both parks later this summer or early fall.

Pigeon Point Neighborhood Council

The Pigeon Point Community Council will have a community gathering/organizing event on August 22nd at Pathfinder K8 playfield located at 1901 SW Genessee St. The event will include multi-age activities, music, food and information tables about Block watches, Emergency Preparedness. The event is free and open to the public.

Central Seattle Greenways

Interim protected bike lanes are planned to be installed in the Pike/Pine corridor by the end of 2019, with permanent lanes to follow. We are inviting the community to create a vision of a street that works for all of us - a preferred design for the interim and a preferred design for the long term. The workshop will be Thursday, October 25 5:30 - 9:00 p.m. at The Summit on Pike, 420 E Pike Street, Seattle, WA 98122. This project will be completed by January 30, 2019.

Neighbors of Pine Street Ravine

Friends of the Madrona Ravine to develop a full scale restoration plan for the ravine. The Madrona Ravine runs along Madrona Drive and 40th Ave, originating at the terminus of 39th Avenue and ending at Lake Washington Blvd. The process of restoring the ravine in partnership with the neighborhood will create a cadre of long-term stewards to continue caring for the ravine. The restoration plan is to be completed by August of 2019

The Alliance for Pioneer Square

The Alliance for Pioneer Square will develop a detailed how-to guide for the repair and replacement of our sidewalk prism glass; a defining asset in our National Historic District. Many sidewalks with prism panels exist today, but a majority need attention. This guide will provide a tool for property owners and managers to repair and replace prism glass in a manner that preserves this asset in the historic district. This project will start on November 17, 2017 and will be completed by January 31, 2018.

Belltown United

Belltown United will bring people together in a community-driven creative placemaking experience that will result in a collection of public street, traffic box, and sidewalk installations of relevant and engaging imagery and prose, with online (web-based) support to be sure it remains available to the community. The installation will contain visual art that identifies the distinct character of the Belltown neighborhood, from a collective understanding of the community's experiences and Belltown's history and cultural significance. The digital component will be integrated with the art to provides a storytelling experience for the pedestrian, linking them to the past, present, and future of Belltown. This project will be completed by August 31, 2023.

Casa Latina

Casa Latina will work with community artists to lead a community design process to create a mural on Casa Latina's building located at 317 17th Ave S. The mural represents day workers and domestic workers, and the Latinx community at large. The mural design will be developed based upon input gathered at free and open to public workshops starting March 2020 at Casa Latina. The workshops will also included community-cooked meal and music in Spanish.

The Eli's Park Project

A landscape architect-led design team will facilitate the community engagement process for the renovation of the Burke-Gilman Playground Park. Over the next several months, a minimum of three public meetings are planned along with several additional outreach activities. This phase will result in a schematic design and preliminary cost estimates. The anticipated completion date is May of 2019.

Rainier Avenue Radio

Rainier Avenue Radio will create a community-based architectural design and building cost estimates for the approximately 1,200 square foot space that will serve as the future location of a community radio studio. The space is located on the second story of the Royal Esquire Club located at 5016 Rainier Ave and will be designed to have a separate entrance from the Royal Esquire Club. Community input and design work will take place during the winter of 2017.

Friends and Neighbors of Mt Zion Baptist Church

The Friends and Neighbors of Mt Zion Baptist Church community group are coordinating the planting of eight Akebono Cherry trees and landscape with bushes the planting strip located at 1634 19th Ave. The event is free and open to public participation. The project will be completed by the end of August 2022.

Green Lake Elementary PTA

The project is to improve the playground at the Greenlake Elementary School, located at 2400 N 65th St Seattle WA , into a more equitable, inclusive, and enjoyable space. The fund will be used to install a new ADA accessible ramp from the school to the playground, create a hillside play space with play features, seating areas, and accessible slides and replace wood chips with wheelchair accessible artificial turf surface. The anticipated project close out date is December 31, 2021.