4/10 Converting Asphalt and Concrete to Active, Healthy, Green Places

Seattle Great City Initiative
Brownbag Lunch Forum

Converting Asphalt and Concrete to Active, Healthy, Green Places

April 10, 2008
12-1:30
Triad Urban Center
NW Corner of Third and Cherry

How can Seattle turn sterile streets into active, green, healthy spaces? With 26% of Seattle’s land area in public right of way, our best opportunity for new green spaces, may literally be right outside our front door. From Urban Streets to expansive boulevards, Seattle is imagining and designing new ways to use our public rights of way for bicycling, walking, and outdoor activities, while creating naturally functioning systems.

Please join us for a discussion with T. Frick to find out about the Taylor 28 project —one of the first residential, mixed-use developments transforming the Denny Triangle Neighborhood by transferring underused roadway width to the public realm, and incorporating innovative natural drainage elements The project launches the first of a series of intersections between green street and plaza street, creating crossroads for a new pedestrian focused
neighborhood.

T. Frick, Mithun, Associate Principal, ASLA LEED. A leader in Mithun’s integrated design approach, T. Frick brings a special focus to streetscape projects by creating ecologically functional spaces in urban environments.

The lunch forum series connects those who care about Seattle’s future with the ideas, leaders, and innovators critical to making Seattle a thriving and sustainable city. Bring your lunch, and come learn, discuss and be inspired.

Please RSVP to Allison Burson allison.burson@greatcity.org to help us plan how to set up the space to comfortably accommodate everyone