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Seafair’s Greenwood Parade: Pony rides, floats, pirates & more!!!

admin — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:59:48 +0000

The Greenwood-Phinney Chamber of Commerce celebrates Seattle’s summer-time with the 61st annual Greenwood Seafair Parade on Wednesday July 27th from 6pm to 8:30pm. “This year we will be having Dean Ridgway from Ridgeline Ranch with his darling Welsh ponies offering pony rides in the Greenwood Fred Meyer parking lot,” says Parade Director Ann Woodward. “The ponies will be set up by 10am so this will be a great opportunity for families to bring their children before the parade and have a ride!”

The Ridgeline Ranch is located in Sequim on 30 acres of pasture with 3 spring-fed ponds. “It is a pony paradise,” says Dean who has been providing pony rides for 22 years. “I enjoy working outside with my ponies and watching the parents smile and the children enjoy the ride.”

The Greenwood Seafair Parade takes place from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 27. The parade—which is the oldest neighborhood Seafair sanctioned parade in the region—runs south along Greenwood Avenue from North 95th Street to North 85th Street, and then heads west to 6th Avenue Northwest. Thousands of people typically line the route. The parade features over 100 entrants including bands, drill teams, horses, dogs, floats, pirates and more. Detailed parade information after the jump.

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Fred Meyer Develops Greenwood Parade

admin — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 02:58:22 +0000

The Greenwood Parade is an annual event to celebrate the summertime and is the oldest neighborhood Seafair sanctioned parade in the Seattle area. Because of Seattle’s recent government cut backs, Parade Director Ann Woodward sought help from local businesses to be able increase the parade budget. “Fred Meyer, which has been a sponsor of the parade for the last several years, stepped right up when asked if they could become a Presenting Sponsor this year.” says Woodward.

“We know how important Seafair and the Greenwood Parade are to the community. We are pleased we can help contribute to its success.” responded Melinda Merrill, director of Public Affairs at Fred Meyer. Fred Meyer has long sought to develop an expansion of the Greenwood Fred Meyer store, an expansion that was scaled back considerably from the residential mixed-use development project considered by the community in 2010.

The Greenwood Seafair Parade takes place from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. on July 27 and runs south along Greenwood Avenue from North 95th Street to North 85th Street, then heads west to 6th Avenue Northwest. Thousands of people line the route each year. The parade features over 100 entrants including bands, drill teams, floats, pirates and more.

For more information about the parade, or how to enter a unit in the parade, contact the Greenwood-Phinney Chamber of Commerce at 206-789-1148 or info@greenwood-phinney.org.

Environmental Review for Fred Meyer’s Greenwood Expansion

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:31:45 +0000

Fred Meyer Greenwood Expansion Plans

Thursday, March 11 is the next public comment on the environmental impact of Fred Meyer’s Greenwood expansion. This is an important project for our community and many have voiced concern on the impact to the peat bog.

Make sure to attend this meeting if possible and we’ll be sharing our coverage with the neighborhood.

MEETING DETAILS:
Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. at the Loyal Heights Community Center, Room 2, 2101 Northwest 77th Street.

Written and/or oral comments may be submitted at the meeting.

Fred Meyer Greenwood Expansion – March Public Review Scheduled

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:29:01 +0000

Environmental Review Fred Meyer Greenwood

Seattle’s Department of Planning and Development (DPD) is holding a public meeting to gather comments on the Fred Meyer project in the Town Center. This meeting is focused on information relating to soils and hydrology issues and to receive comment on other environmental issues.

A geotechnical report has been submitted by the developer which identifies the soils on the site and will allow designers to accommodate for the soil conditions.

It will address any peat found on the site and the potential impacts and/or recommendations for anticipated construction.

Electronic copies of the project are not available. Hardcopies may be obtained from the DPD Public Resource Center, 700 5th Avenue, Suite 2000 (206) 684-8467. The Public Resource Center is open 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday.

MEETING LOCATION:
A public meeting to review this application will be held on Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. at the Loyal Heights Community Center, Room 2, 2101 Northwest 77th Street. Written and/or oral comments may be submitted at the meeting.
LINKS:
Fred Meyer Meeting Bulletin

Peat Settlement Issues

Fred Meyer Greenwood Design Survey Results

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:02:13 +0000

As the Design Review Board approved the Fred Meyer Greenwood Design with comments from the audience, our survey showed the public roughly 57% supporting the project to 43% opposed. Some great comments from the survey are listed below:

Survey Quotes:
Why do I support the project? Because it has financial backing and will happen. GG.DDAG dreams of mix use development on this site are nice but unsustainable.

Combining the store and grocery makes sense, since they’re both already Kroger and shopping all together is convenient, and the current set up is pretty ugly (but I hope the combo would retain the local feel of Greenwood Market as well as good organics and bulk sections). But the neighborhood does not need 300 new apartments. Traffic is bad enough already, and new condo projects all over town are sitting incomplete with no buyers. A quick Craigslist search comes up with 285 apt listings with keyword Greenwood.

We don’t need a superstore in a small retail area.

Megastores are an abomination.

Can’t wait for this project to happen! We need a decent, low-price grocery in this area and to in-fill around Greenwood to build a better neighborhood.