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Karen Kiest | Landscape Architects SOUTH PARK PLAZACommunity Engagement Boards PrepParks ProView November 5, 2019

Seatt le Parks & Recreation

history

1) South Park Side of Bridge (approx. plaza site), June 1932

C) Mural on the County Line Building after its closure, 2010

2) Fourteenth Avenue South, South Access to Dallas Avenue, Nov 1915

1936 Aerial Photograph of South Park overlaid with path of pre-1913 slough

C> County Line (fomerly Burdic Feed Store), 2008

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Aerial of the site showing County Line, former South Park Bridge, and historic brick road, 2002

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3) View from former bridge at Bridge Wake, 2010

B) Burdic Lumber, 8351 14th Ave S, 1937what do you remember?

C) County Line Tavern (formerly Burdic Feed Store), 1958C) Burdic Feed Store, 1945

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Japanese Farmers in South Park, 1933

South Park Poultry at Pike Place, 1960s

Duwamish people

Duwamish place name:

Lwalb “abandoned” {leGelb} for a small

new river. It is an old river channel where the river has changed its course

who do you remember?

what stories should the plaza tell?

The historic (pre-1913) path of the Duwamish River overlaid on a current-day aerial photo of South Park

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context

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Riverwalk

Green Loop

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X Site along Green Loop

X Connections

Seattle

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S) Street mural by Duwamish Valley Youth Corps at Duwamish Water Park

N) Existing South Park Bridge walk, east of plaza site

M) Trail at T-117

U) 8th & Riverside Park

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Gathering + cultural spaces

Expanded tree

open space

Park activation and expansion through ROW

Ped and bike infrastructure Waterfront

trail

Restored shoreline + sea level rise protection

Interpretive signage

DUWAMISH WATERWAY PARK EXPANSION

POTENTIAL WATER QUALITY FACILITY

SOUTH PARK PLAZA

SOUTH PARK RIVERWALK

DUWAMISH WATERWAY PARK

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12TH + ELMGROVE

A) South Park Community CenterB) River City Skate ParkC) Cesar Chavez ParkD) 5th & Cloverdale street

improvementsE) Concord Elementary F) Marra-Desimone ParkG) South Park MeadowH) 8th Avenue TrailI) 14th Avenue South Business

DistrictJ) Connnection to West Seattle

(needed)K) Green River Trail ConnectionL) South Park Georgetown Trail

(planning)M) T-117 N) South Park Bridge TrailO) South Park PlazaP) Rose Street EndQ) Southern Avenue South Street

EndR) 12th and Elmgrove Open SpaceS) Duwamish Waterway ParkU) 8th & Riverside ParksV) 7th Avenue Pump StationW) 5th Avenue Street EndX) Future Street and drainage

improvements

Art by Kristin Tollefson, T-117, South Park

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WaterwayStreet end

T-117Restoration

Plaza

1> Looking East along Dallas

2> Looking south along western edge of bridge

5> West edge of site - Ram Mounts blank facade

4> Looking South from Orr Street entrance to plaza site

3> Looking west on Orr Street underneath bridge

6> View looking south from bridge to plaza site

7> View looking west from bridge path to plaza site - September 2019 Lucha Libre event

8> Looking north along western edge of bridge, with lights

Wall and fence create separation at main corner

Wall and fence creates separation at main corner drainage issues present

Blank facade is potential backdrop but also doesn’t activate space

Existing bridge walk connection potential& historic materials establishes a design language around bridge

blank wall & bridge noise grade separation at corner

blank wall & bridge noise

old bridge artifacts potential street-spill-out space

Riverfront habitat connection

what do we need to know about the site?

proposed riverwalk

proposed riverwalk

Street end river access

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Business District

South Park Marina

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festival space

missing sidewalk

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commercial connections

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earl ier ideas

2012 levy presentat ion

2014 SP green spaces planBarker Landscape Architects for the Seattle Parks Foundation

2001 Duwamish Riverfront RevivalJones & Jones for the Environmental Coalition of South Seattle

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hanging vegetation

Zone 2• existing mudflat

• rootwads and r iprap (2:1)

• narrow marsh bench

• overhanging vegetation

• side channel and island

Zone 3•existing mudflat

•expanded mudflat

•steep riprap (1:1) with rootwad matrix

•narrow marsh bench

•overhanging vegetation

•side channel and island

Zone 4• existingmudflat

• riprap (2:1)

• overhanging

vegetation


• sand and gravel substrate

• wide marsh bench


• street slough

• street swaleZone 6• existing

mudflat• rootwad and

rock terraces

• protective

berm• narrow marsh

bench• overhanging

vegetation


• sand and gravel

substrate• wide marsh bench

• overhanging

vegetation

• street slough

• street swale

Zone 7• existingmudflat

• rootwad and

rock terraces

• overhanging

vegetation

• lookout


• sand and gravel substrate

• wide marsh bench

• street slough


• public access

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Barker Landscape Architects for the Seattle Parks Foundation

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What would you add or subtract from these ideas?



great places

Old Town Plaza, Alburquerque, New Mexico

Plazuela 27 Septiembre, LosMochis, Mexico

Angra de Heroismo, Azors

Niles Town Plaza, Fremont, California

Miller Plaza, Chattanooga, Tennessee

Plaza Indepencia, Quito, Ecuador

Baratillo Plaza, Guanajuato, Mexico

where are the great parks and plazas you’ve been?

Junction Park, West SeattleHat & Boots Park, Georgetown

Burien Town SquareEl Centro de la Raza, Beacon Hill

what can we learn from them?



elements

Panhandle Bandshell (currently on site, deconstructed)

Tall open shelter (Fox plaza, Portland)

Mural painting on former South Park Bridge - South Park Arts has supported many murals in the neighborhood

Farmer’s Market (South Park Market on Wheels, 2009)

event space

art

vending

focal point

shelter

Ross Park Shelter House with bathrooms and rental event space, Frelard

Lucha Libre event, South Park

Plazuela 27 Septiembre, LosMochis, Mexico

Space for Taco Trucks & other mobile food

Golden Heart Plaza, Fairbanks, Alaska

r iver connection

play

seating

Alice Ball Park, Greenwood

open green

Spokane Riverfront

what should be in the plaza?

South Park Vortex at Marra Farm

November 2018 Dia de los Muertos at the Plaza

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