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Ravenna News Archive
Ravenna
Playground Plan Presentation
01/06/05 Friends of Ravenna Playground
The initial public presentation of the final, City-approved concept plan for
Ravenna Park's Playground will be held
Monday, January 17th.
Don't
Forget the Ravenna Playground Auction!
10/25/04 Friends of Ravenna Playground
The auction is coming up fast and we haven't sold nearly the number
of
tickets anticipated.
Help
Design the New Ravenna Playground
10/21/04 Friends of Ravenna Playground
Work is underway to create a community-gathering place and safe play area in
Ravenna Park that will serve all ages. Fill out a brief online survey of potential
park features and provide your own ideas and feedback, as well.
Friends
of Ravenna Playground to hold benefit auction
08/04 Friends of Ravenna Playground
Auction and diner dance Saturday November 13th from 6:00 - 10:30 at the Sand
Point Community Center.
Ravenna
Creek finally ready to see daylight
11/03 Seattle Sun
After a decade of efforts to bring Ravenna Creek up into the daylight, the North
End stream is finally ready to grow.
Ravenna-Bryant Community Association
Newsletter
10/01/03 Ravenna-Bryant Community Association
The latest news from the RBCA.
Parks
to Review Ravenna Creek Daylighting Plan
09/18/03 Seattle Parks and Recreation
Seattle Parks and Recreation will hold a meeting to review the revised design
for daylighting Ravenna Creek in Ravenna Park Thursday, October 9 from 6:30-8:30
p.m. at Roosevelt High School Cafeteria, 1410 NE 66th St.
Neighbors Organize
to Fight Ravenna Park Decision
08/27/03 Ravenna Park Action Council
Despite the Parks Board's 5-1 endorsement of Alternative 2, Parks Superintendent
Ken Bounds dismissed the board's vote and the overwhelming public support for
Alternative 2. Bounds and the Parks Project staff swept aside the will of the
Ravenna Neighborhood, and created what Bounds calls a "modified Alternative
1." This "alternative" is clearly not what the community chose
or wanted. Read
the e-mail from Ken Bounds.
New
gas pumps at U Village?
02/03 Seattle Sun
The Northeast District Council has registered with the City its concerns
over the University Village QFC grocery store's proposed plans to add
a self-service gas station.
Parks
Superintendent Overturns Board and Community Regarding Ravenna Park
10/18/02 Parks Superintendent Ken Bounds
After considerable thought about the Ravenna Creek Daylighting project,
I have directed the project team to proceed with design based on a modified
version of Alternative #1.
Independent
bookstores staying alive by reading the market, their customers
10/11/02 The Seattle Times
Saws are buzzing and dust flying in Ravenna, where Third Place Books is
writing the latest chapter in what might be called The Fate of the Independent
Bookstore.
City
rewards street beauty in the round
09/29/02 The Seattle Times
We know about haunted houses, but haunted traffic circles?
Ravenna
Creek needs your help - today
09/20/02 Ravenna Creek Alliance
RCA asks you to contact the Parks Board directly, before they meet on
Sept. 26 to discuss Ravenna's alternatives and to make their recommendation
to Supt. Bounds.
It
takes a (University) village to sell crates and barrels
07/02 Seattle Sun
Those who don't follow the local shopping scene may wonder what that giant
crane is doing, looming over the skyline of the Laurelhurst and Ravenna-Bryant
neighborhoods as it has since early January.
Saxe Greenhouse
Site
05/20/02 Ravenna-Bryant Community Association
The owners of the Saxe Greenhouse property, located on 25th NE and
NE 65th, have applied for permission to build seven buildings on the site.
Ravenna
Creek Daylighting Project
02/28/02 Ravenna Creek Alliance
Ravenna Creek will be reconnected physically in 2003 and
will again flow into Union Bay in northeast Seattle. The
creek will be daylighted to the south edge of Ravenna Park.
Ravenna-Bryant
Community Association elections coming in April
02/27/02 Ravenna-Bryant Community Association
At the April 11th General meeting RBCA will elect new board members.
Please consider joining your neighborhood association's volunteer board.
Ravenna
Creek Daylighting in Ravenna Park
02/01/02 Seattle Parks & Recreation
The project will daylight 400-600' of Ravenna Creek in
Ravenna Park. Please join us in three community workshops to create
a
vision and to develop design concepts for the project.
PCC Announces
Future of Ravenna Location
01/03/02 Puget Consumer's Co-op
The co-op has entered into an agreement to sell its property at the corner
of NE 65th Street and 20th Avenue NE to Third Place Company, the parent
of Third Place Books and the Honey Bear Bakery.
Ravenna-Bryant Community
Council Minutes
10/10/01 Ravenna-Bryant community Council
These minutes include a good update on the Ravenna PCC site.
Cottage
Housing Proposed for Ravenna PCC Site
09/26/01 Ravenna-Bryant Community Association
Catapult Community Developers proposes to put the land
into a land trust and build cottage housing on the site leaving the brick
portion of the PCC building for retail.
Deal
struck over parking garage at U. Village
09/21/01 The Seattle Times
Plans for a new parking garage at University Village finally are going
ahead, after the shopping center and neighborhood opponents reached an
agreement this week.
The Growth
of Multi-family Projects
Blair Paul
Excerpts from Blair and Jan Paul's Spring newsletter describing some large
development projects underway in Ravenna.
New UW
Student Housing on 25th NE
06/22/01 Ravenna-Bryant Community Association
At the June 13 Ravenna Bryant Board meeting the board heard about the
University housing project scheduled to be built on Twenty-fifth NE south
of the Silver Cloud Hotel. The project will consist of eight buildings
in various styles containing 140 units for approximately 430 single students.
No
stone was left unturned
06/04/01 The Seattle Times
In Seattle, neighborhood really matters. Take the story about Pat and
Steve Scott, who live in Ravenna on one of those blocks where people care
about their neighbors.
Blakely
Commons wins award
06/01 Jet City Maven
Blakely Commons, a project comprised of two four-story buildings with
retail space and 106 condominiums located at 2715 NE Blakely Street in
the Ravenna/Bryant neighborhood was presented with Livable Future award
from 1000 Friends of Washington on April 28.
Recap
of May 8, 2001 CUCAC (UW Related) Meeting
05/29/01 Ravenna-Bryant Community Association
One
fast-moving issue that is important to our area is the Blakely Village
housing project planned for the old Vic Mix site south of the Silver Cloud.
Ravenna
Creek daylighting proceeding
05/01 Jet City Maven
Those who know Ravenna Park have seen Ravenna Creek flow peacefully through
its lovely, wooded setting. What some might not realize is that after
the creek completes its 2,200-foot journey through the park, it drops
into the county sewer system.
Cottage
revival: Builder takes new approach with old ideas near Green Lake
02/25/01 The Seattle Times
It's entirely radical in Seattle: the first detached cottage community
built within the city since the 1920s.
The
name game
02/20/01 The Seattle Times
Feeling creative? The Seattle Parks Department has three new neighborhood
parks in need of names.
(One of them is Blakeley Cresent Park)
Architect Finalists Selected for Northeast
Library Expansion
02/05/01 NortheastSeattle.com
Architect
finalists have been selected for the expansion of the NE Branch Library.
You are invited to a reception 2/15 to meet the finalists and view display
boards featuring their previous work.
View a list of the finalists.
Find out more about the reception
in our Community Calendar.
Community
Activities Underway to Influence Future of Ravenna PCC Store
01/31/01 Concerned Ravenna Residents
Concerned residents have established a Web site to provide a forum for
the Ravenna community and PCC members to express their concerns about
the future of the PCC store and to provide members an opportunity to ensure
that management is faithful to the purpose and values of the co-op.
"Rainy
Day Center" Planned for Ravenna Neighborhood
01/24/01 The Seattle Press
With a nod to Seattle's world-famous weather goblin, Ravenna Avenue neighbors
are talking about the creation of a Rainy Day Center.
Original
PC Co-op store will close
12/29/00 The Seattle Times
The original Puget Consumers Co-op store in Ravenna is closing on Jan.
13, following a survey that found many PCC customers wanted bigger stores
with more product selection.
Ravenna-Bryant
Community Association November Meeting Minutes
12/5/00 Ravenna-Bryant Community Association
Meeting minutes from the November 11th meeting.
Ravenna-Bryant
Community Association Fall Meeting
Ravenna-Brayan Community Association
It’s time again for a Ravenna-Bryant Community Association general meeting.
Calvary
Cemetery proposal raises wall of opposition
10/3/00 The Seattle Times
As Halloween approaches, some Bryant residents are staring with dread
at the century-old cemetery in their neighborhood.
