Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Fort Steilacoom Park: new buildings on the edge of the park, and a new community meeting
Here are a couple of updates about Fort Steilacoom Park. First off, you may be aware that the city is sponsoring meetings to consider what to do about the Ward building and its surroundings in the park. The next meeting has now been scheduled: Tuesday, June 26, at 6:30 p.m. in the council chambers at Lakewood City Hall, 6000 Main St SW. If you want to get up to speed on what's been going on with this project, you can check out the earlier posting in The Suburban Times and/or download the report from the community meeting at Pierce College.
Speaking of Pierce College ... Another interesting development affecting the park is that the city is processing Pierce College's plan for major changes on campus. Pierce College, as you may be aware, is a valued center for education within Lakewood. The college is located at the edge of the park.
You can download a map of the projects as a PDF by clicking here. I apologize for the quality of the scan; I forgot to put a hard backing down on top of the paper when I scanned it in.
You'll see that, among other things, the college plans an 83,000-square-foot Science and Technology Center and a 64,000-square-foot Arts and Communications Building along the top of the hill there at the college. They'll be covering nearly three acres of what's now open space; but of course there will be education taking place within those buildings.
If you have any questions about this project, let me know and I can pass them along. The city is in the midst of a bureaucratic process in which people who want to challenge the plan have to file a formal appeal. I only note that to be complete; I don't know if anyone wants to go that route, but if you did, your best bet might be to skip me and go directly to City Hall to get more informed about the project. Files are available for public inspection. But as always, let me know what you think. I'm sure that Pierce College will be working to inform us all about the projects, and more information will be coming along.
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Speaking of Pierce College ... Another interesting development affecting the park is that the city is processing Pierce College's plan for major changes on campus. Pierce College, as you may be aware, is a valued center for education within Lakewood. The college is located at the edge of the park.
You can download a map of the projects as a PDF by clicking here. I apologize for the quality of the scan; I forgot to put a hard backing down on top of the paper when I scanned it in.
You'll see that, among other things, the college plans an 83,000-square-foot Science and Technology Center and a 64,000-square-foot Arts and Communications Building along the top of the hill there at the college. They'll be covering nearly three acres of what's now open space; but of course there will be education taking place within those buildings.
If you have any questions about this project, let me know and I can pass them along. The city is in the midst of a bureaucratic process in which people who want to challenge the plan have to file a formal appeal. I only note that to be complete; I don't know if anyone wants to go that route, but if you did, your best bet might be to skip me and go directly to City Hall to get more informed about the project. Files are available for public inspection. But as always, let me know what you think. I'm sure that Pierce College will be working to inform us all about the projects, and more information will be coming along.
