Yessssss! Excited to have a playground near SLU.

And how nice that the glass museum pays minimum wage on public land.

Rip the roof off the KeyArena and fill it with sand ?

I for one am glad a certain blond council member was looking for a reasonable compromise and listened to the people at the design workshops.

$880K only? Peanuts in the world of playgrounds. Completely unimpressed, esp. since you just know the players involved would love to have a 1/2 mile kid-free perimeter around The Chihuly Gift Shoppe n Katering Kitchen.

Goldy and WiS should totally chest-bump over their amazing influence on public/private affairs.

Yes, that's quite nice of the Wright Family and (I guess) Chihuly.

But maybe the Seattle School district should play this game. They own the nine (9) acres that Memorial Stadium and its parking lot sit on. (The City loves to pretend this isn't so but yes, it is and it was deeded to the district - on the condition that they use it for educational purposes - way before Seattle Center even existed.

There is some plan about exchanging land with the City, blah, blah but really, the district, if you go by what happened in Goldy's story, is in the driver's seat and should extract all they can.

The district better not mess this up (a la Queen Anne High) because then arguably the single most valuable piece of property the district owns might slip through their fingers.

That's just me.

i guess it's better than nothing. but the oh-so-generous Chihuly-Wright assholes can bite me with their faux-generosity. We liked Fun Forest how it was, and $800K is not that much.

Every playground in Seattle less than 10 years old has no fucking trees. To speak of. There is no shade. The people cry out for shade, O corporate overlords!

Plant some weird mutant or exotic shit now that grows 20 feet tall in a year so we can have a little shade. By the time the trees are tall enough our kids won't ever go to the playground except to get high.

@8 whatever dude - you keep talking, I'll keep doing.

Your problem is you see roadblocks - I see places a well aimed tank can go thru.

this is good to hear. unfortunately, i suspect the $2million is about how much it will cost by the time a bunch of Seattlites actually decide on what the playground will look like. construction will require a new property tax.

How about a little spot to buy a cup of coffee? That'd be nice.

I predict a local prominent glass designer wins the playground bid, and will design a giant glass kiddie slide with pointy glass tentacles shooting out of it, and a tasteful glass gift shop on the bottom.

Still nothing on the free admissions mandated by the contract Wright/Chihuly signed. They continue to be in breach of contract. No one's called them on it. Can we get another couple hundred K compensation added to the playground fund?

A playground with lots of hands on building activities, like, for example, trebuchet building workshops.

I hope that it will be an artfully-designed playground and not a playground-like art installation. To be effective, it needs to be a place kids can climb and explore and spend hours playing without becoming bored.

And +1 to @11. Trees. Trees that can be climbed (without concrete below) and provide shade, too. I don't know how much it'll cost to relocate mature trees, but maybe Chihuly can cover the cost.

Put a fucking lid on it, please. So we can actually use it year round.