On January 2, 2019, the Seattle, Washington Parks and Recreation Department issued a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to choose a design team for the city’s $10 million Freeway Park Improvement Project.
The project includes $9,250,000 for capital improvements to repair, restore and enhance Freeway Park, plus $750,000 to activate (revitalize) the site.
Freeway Park was the visionary work of Lawrence Halprin & Associates, and launched the modern global movement the cap badly-planned urban highways, thus turning dead space into green public spaces—or, in some cases, developable property—that reconnects and thus revitalizes neighborhoods that had been severed by the infrastructure.
The work is scheduled to begin in April of 2019 and to extend through December of 2021.
The project is part of the public benefits package negotiated as part of the Washington State Convention Center Expansion Project.
Responses to the RFQ are due by 4:00 pm, January 31, 2019.
1981 photo of Freeway Park is by Richard Longstreth.