Seattle Park and Recreation has signed an agreement to purchase a half-acre property along the south branch of Thornton Creek.
This acquisition will facilitate creek restoration and provide a location for environmental education, which Olympic View and Viewlands elementary schools already conduct.
The site is near Northgate, next to Thornton Creek Park No. 6, on the south side of Northeast 105th Street, between Fifth and Eighth avenues Northeast. It is traversed by about 140 linear feet of the creek.
Pro Parks Levy money helped to fund the purchase and preservation of this site and others in the Thornton Creek watershed, including 2 acres along Little Brook on 36th Avenue Northeast and a three-quarter-acre site on the south branch of Thornton Creek at 20th Avenue Northeast.
On July 31, the city bought a site along the Morningside Creek tributary on Northeast 95th Street near 27th Avenue Northeast.
