Welcome to Beautiful Green Lake

The Green Lake neighborhood is a great place to work, play, visit, and live. Green Lake businesses are thriving and popular Green Lake restaurants serve delectable food that is lauded by food editors and customers alike. Green Lake homes are in high demand. and Green Lake Park is possibly the most popular park in the State of Washington. Every day people from all parts of the city and county come to enjoy the lake, the path, and the many activities available year-round. Our neighborhood schools serve students from throughout the city and our library is one of the busiest (indicating that it serves as a regional resource as much as a neighborhood library) in the city. The old West Green Lake Beach bathhouse now houses the Seattle Public Theater, an exciting resource for quality entertainment and community participation.

The Green Lake Community Council

The Green Lake Community Council (GLCC) is an organization dedicated to making Green Lake an even a better place for those of us who live here, who work here and who visit here, through our involvement, advocacy, sharing, and caring. That is our vision. See About Us for our mission statement and current activities.

Friends of Green Lake

With the overwhelming popularity of our lake, many people are concerned about maintaining the beauty and viability of the lake for future generations. The Friends of Green Lake, a part of the Community Council, are addressing the issues of algae, aggressive nuisance fish, and growth of plants like milfoil. See the Friends of Green Lake home page for for more information about the Friends of Green Lake activities.

Green Lake Community Center

The Community Center is open year-round except national holidays. Next closures will be Independence Day, Monday July 5, 2010 and Labor Day, Monday September 6, 2010. See the Community Center website for more information.

Walk Bike Ride - June Meetings Planned

Meetings throughout the city during June will seek to answer the question, “what needs to change in our neighborhoods to make walking, biking, and riding transit easy?” More sidewalks? More transit? More bike lanes? Attendees will get information on what types of projects are possible, and fill out a “ballot” that will help the city prioritize these types of transportation projects.

Meeting times and locations are listed on a downloadable map. You can attend the one that best fits your schedule. The WBR meeting at Northgate Community Center is June 21 from 6 to 7:30 PM. If you are unable to make a meeting you can fill out the ballot online.

NEWS ITEMS


Green Lake Branch Library
7364 E. Green Lake Dr. N

Do you have ideas for Green Lake's BIG HOLE?

by Mike Cornell

As Chairman of the Green Lake Community Council I am frequently asked about what is happening at the old VitaMilk Diary site that is now just a block-size hole in the ground.

The development was many years in the making with the property owners, the developer they hired, architects, city officials, community groups and numerous Green Lake citizens all collaborating (often disagreeing) on the new, six-story mixed-use residential/retail project coming to this block and the blocks to the north and south. Many people worked for years on plans for the property. The developer, owners and most Green Lake community members wanted a grocery store as the only large tenant on the street level of the new urban village project. Unfortunately, after the property owners evicted all the commercial tenants along Woodlawn, tore down all the buildings, and excavated the property, they couldn't reach agreement with the preferred anchor tenant, Metropolitan Market. The grocery business is one of extremely low profit margins, even in good times. Efforts have been and continue to be made to secure a quality grocery tenant. Eventually the project will move forward. But with the changes in our economy, it may be a few more years before that happens.

Meanwhile, people want to know what is being done about this eye sore. If you have an idea or ideas about how to make better interim use of the "big hole" property here at Green Lake and/or other similar properties in Seattle, please click here. Here is a story on Seattle "big holes" from KING 5 NEWS .

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