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Upcoming Brownbag: Uptown Loop Discussion

Filed Under Brownbag, Transportation, Uptown, walking 

Upcoming Brownbag: Uptown Loop Discussion

Where: GGLO Space at the Steps
1301 First Ave, Level A
Enter through door located about 1/4 of the way down the Harbor Steps (click for map)
Date: Thursday, February 11, 2010
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

More than a century ago, the Olmstead brothers developed the “Emerald Necklace” plan – a plan of set paths and vantage points that create a sense of continuity throughout Uptown Seattle. The hidden and overgrown lower Kinnear Park link is a missing gem in this plan. Imagine a looping urban trail that includes a breath of sea air in Myrtle Edwards Park, art in the Sculpture Park, breakfast spots in Belltown, the Seattle Center, coffee spots in Lower Queen Anne, and tennis or picnic in lower Kinnear Park. An entire day of activities, highlighting Seattle’s finest, all in one easy stroll.

The community organization FOLKpark (Friends of Lower Kinnear Park), with the help HBB Landscape Architects and VIA Architecture, is planning to complete this missing link in an urban loop that dissolves the boundaries between the Waterfront, Belltown, South Lake Union, and Queen Anne. Come discuss ideas about how this Uptown Loop strengthens pedestrian accessibility and secures the relationship between urban forests, walkable city streets, community amenities, residential living, and waterfront vistas.

ALAN HART, Principal, VIA Architecture

Alan’s architectural career has covered a broad spectrum of infrastructure, institutional, commercial and residential projects. His most extensive involvement has been in transit design, as chief architect for Vancouver’s Millennium Rapid Transit line and Seattle’s Monorail, Vancouver’s Streetcar, and as designer of transit stations in Seattle, Vancouver, and Malaysia. As principal of VIA, Alan provides overview for architectural projects and leads the process of design integration from concept to technical details. His skills include finding opportunity for design innovation in unlikely places and in facilitating solutions at all scales of design work. VIA‘s numerous award-winning projects reflect this standard of excellence.

DEAN KOONTZ, Principle, HBB Landscape Architecture

With ten years of experience in urban design, planning, and landscape architecture, Dean’s diverse expertise forms the foundation of an integrated approach to project design and management. With an interest in creating spaces designed for people, his urban design work has focused on waterfronts, parks, and civic open spaces including several downtown Seattle plaza remodels and the Mercer Corridor redesign. In addition, his planning experience in land use code development, design standards, and guidelines provide further diversity and a unique understanding of the regulatory environment within the built environment. Using a broad range of knowledge from sustainable design and site planning to construction detailing, Dean integrates the community-based design process into projects as diverse as marina redesigns, park trails, soil clean-up and remediation projects, and green-roof design for downtown condominiums.

DEBORAH FRAUSTO, Consultant, Chair of Friends of Lower Kinnear Park (FOLKpark)

Debi is a collaborator by nature. Throughout her 20+year career in commercial real estate she has been involved in retail, office and public development projects. Debi finds the most successful projects connect design, marketing and financial goals early in a project’s development and uses a charrette environment to help multi-disciplined teams hone in quickly on core issues. She believes in studying both the details and the whole simultaneously and testing feasibility in measured outcomes. Prior to starting her own consulting company, Debi developed real estate acquisition strategies for the Seattle Monorail Project, served as VP of Commercial for Quadrant Corp. and headed up the leasing effort during the redevelopment of Crossroads Shopping Center in Bellevue. All her skills are being out to use in her volunteer role for FOLKpark.

Fête du Flâneur

Save the Date! We’re having a party!

On Thursday, February 25, Great City presents the Fête du Flâneur, a Fantastic Urban-Themed Party. The Fête, a fundraiser for the organization, will feature a limited-admission private reception with Great City founder and Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, City Councilmember Mike O’Brien and Deputy Mayor Darryl Smith. Following the early reception will be a celebration of enlightened, if fanciful, urban living featuring music, open bar, hors d’oeuvres, silent auction, an address by Mayor Mike McGinn, crowning of the Great City–Cascade Land Conservancy Mustache Challenge champion, Flâneur-inspired art, dancing and DIY costumes…

For more event details and to purchase tickets, click here!

Upcoming Brownbags

February 11th – FOLKpark / Uptown Loop
12:00 – 1:30 pm
GGLO Space at the Steps
1301 First Ave, Level A

February 25th – Where’s the Family in Multi-family?
12:00 – 1:30 pm
GGLO Space at the Steps
1301 First Ave, Level A

March 25th – The Eco-Laboratory: Weber Thompson’s Answer to Urban Agriculture and the 2030 Building Challenge
12:00 – 1:30 pm
GGLO Space at the Steps
1301 First Ave, Level A

Comments

One Response to “Upcoming Brownbag: Uptown Loop Discussion”

  1. Karin on February 26th, 2010 2:09 pm

    A small point, but Olmsted, as in the designers of the Emerald Necklace, is spelled, as I have “OLMSTED,” and not Olmstead..

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