Introducing Broadway Hill Park

The future public green space at Federal and Republican has an official name. Let's go play at Broadway Hill Park.

This fall, we reported on the latest updates on the new park space and the naming process. The selection of the new name falls in line with recent dull but straightforward monikers attached to Capitol Hill green spaces including Summit Slope and Seven Hills parks. The park's community steering committee meets Monday night at the Capitol Hill library if you're interested in getting involved. A busy Monday night for parks-related meetings also features a session to discuss an overhaul of E Madison's McGilvra Place triangle park.

More from Seattle Parks on Broadway Hill Park below.

Federal and Republican. Parks purchased the property at the corner of Federal Ave. E and E Republican St. in March 2010. This acquisition helped fill a need for open space in the Capitol Hill Urban Village area. In 2011, the Friends of Federal and Republican Park received a Neighborhood Matching Fund award and hired SiteWorkshop to work with the community in preparing a schematic design. Parks held three public meetings to plan, design and build a new, welcoming neighborhood park.

 The preferred schematic features a large lawn area and seating at a "front porch" area at the top of the site and on a seat wall alongside the sidewalk. The park will include a community garden (as part of the P-Patch program) and opportunities for natural play and artwork. Friends of Federal and Republican Park also won a $10,000 Build Your Block Challenge Award from Umpqua Bank that will help with initial landscaping needs. The community is applying for other grants and doing private fundraising with the hope of beginning construction in 2013.

The Park Naming Committee is unanimous it its recommendation of the name Broadway Hill Park for this site, and the Acting Parks Superintendent concurs. The name provides a strong link to the history of the neighborhood and has community support. Both Cal Anderson Park and Bobby Morris Playfield used to have “Broadway” as a part of their names, but when they were renamed the historical references to the “Broadway Hill” neighborhood were removed.