In the first cycle of the Pro Parks Opportunity
Fund, Ballard citizens nominated a slate of properties for the
Ballard Open Space project, drawing from a Ballard/Crown Hill
Open Space Inventory and Action Plan. The property at 17th NW
and NW 63rd was purchased in 2003 through the first cycle of the
Opportunity Fund.
The community then nominated this site for park development through
the second cycle of the Pro Parks Opportunity Fund.
In 2005, Friends of 63rd St. Pocket Park (now the Friends of Ballard
Corners Park) received a $15,000 Department of Neighborhoods Small
and Simple NMF award to begin planning for the new park improvements.
They will apply for $100,000 from the Neighborhood Matching Fund
Large Project Fund (NMF) and are actively fundraising for construction.
This varied neighborhood includes seniors and people who live
in rental apartments. They are repesented on the steering committee.
The community website,
www.ballardcornerspark.org
describes in more detail some of the varied and unusual outreach
and other events sponsored by the Friends of Ballard Corners Park.
