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Thursday, August 17, 2006

Olympic Sculpture Park Date to be Postponed?

Posted by on August 17 at 19:28 PM

This memo (excerpted below) sent today from a Seattle Art Museum deputy director and leaked to the Stranger:

As you may know, King County concrete workers have been on strike since July 31st. The strike has cut off the concrete supply to building projects throughout the region including the Olympic Sculpture Park. We are currently assessing the situation and potential impact to the Olympic Sculpture Park’s opening date. We will get back to you with details as soon as we can. Please let me know if you have any immediate issues or concerns. We will be communicating externally on this issue next week when we hope to have further clarification.

Could the museum, in building this park, possibly run up against more obstacles? Maybe they’re asking themselves that.

I don’t know much about the strike (everything I do know is contained in that memo), but I’m waiting to hear back from the museum in response to what’s going on. Stay tuned.


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Well, the sculpture park is itself a collection of obstacles, so it seems apropos.

The sculpture garden will make Seattle a world class city. Against a dense urban backdrop of Belltown condos, the giant typewriter eraser sculpture is a profound statement of "New Seattle". "Old Seattle" must let go of the past and accept the new direction the city is headed.

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