Seattle Parks and Recreation invites community to celebrate the new Pratt Park Spraypark – Parkways

Seattle Parks and Recreation (SPR) is glad to announce the Pratt Park Spraypark Renovation is full and welcomes the neighborhood to get pleasure from the brand new spraypark at a celebration from 4 – 6 p.m. on Friday, June 10, 2022! As a part of the celebration, SPR encourages the neighborhood to come back run by the spraypark, take heed to nice DJ music, get pleasure from meals from The Barbeque Pit and study some low influence workouts from members of Seattle’s personal Northwest Calisthenics Collective who shall be onsite to have interaction neighborhood and reveal enjoyable low influence routines on the health gear. 

Pratt Park is positioned at 1800 S Fundamental St. within the Central District. The spraypark is positioned close to the play space on the nook of twentieth Ave. S and S Washington St. 

To renovate the park, SPR employed Website Workshop Panorama Architects and Hoshide Wanzer Architects to work with the neighborhood and design the park enhancements. The unique undertaking scope included putting in a re-circulation water system and new play options on the present spraypark and grew to incorporate a brand new restroom constructing, grownup health gear, web site furnishings, pathway enhancements and upgrading the irrigation system. The re-circulation system drastically improves water conservation, and will increase security and play-value, making for a greater consumer expertise. The custom-designed restroom constructing encompasses a butterfly roof and vegetated wall trellis methods, in addition to a gender-neutral single stall restroom.

The spraypark surfacing encompasses a map of Africa etched into the concrete and retains bronze sculptures that have been created by artist Monad Elohim; the sculptures characterize the spirits of African American ancestors. The spraypark additionally retains bronze plaques, created by artists Monad Elohim and Daniel Minter, reflecting the African American neighborhood’s identification, tradition and locations of origins. These plaques shall be re-installed at a later date. The pathway between the spraypark and the play space can have painted traces for hopscotch, two sq., and leaping rope.

The renovation is a superb instance of private and non-private funding coming collectively to make enhancements. The Parks & Inexperienced Areas Levy and Seattle Park District supplied the preliminary funding for the park with Vulcan Actual Property and Seattle Seahawks Charitable Basis contributing a complete of $50,000 towards the park renovation and pathway enhancements. A  partnership with Kaiser Permanente supplied $80,000 for the grownup health gear.

The park is positioned within the Central District and named after Edwin T. Pratt. Pratt was a neighborhood chief, Government Director of Seattle City League, and a founding father of the Central Space Motivation Program and the Seattle Alternatives Industrialization Heart. He was slain by unknown assailants at his house in 1969.

For extra details about the undertaking go to http://www.seattle.gov/parks/tasks/pratt_park/. For questions regarding the undertaking please contact Shannon Glass at Shannon.glass@seattle.gov. To see an inventory of different sprayparks in Seattle, go to https://www.seattle.gov/parks/discover/sprayparks-and-wading-pools.