David Folweiler, co-chair of Friends of Ballard Corners Park, announced that Ballard's newest community park is likely just a few months from opening to the public.

The park, in the last phases of construction, is located at 17th Avenue Northwest and Northwest 62nd Street and haas been on ongoing community effort since 2006. It's been paid for by city, county and state grant funds.

A planting party to finalize plantings in the rain gardens and parking strips around the park is schedule at the park for 9 a.m. March 8. Volunteers are being sought.

Volunteers are asked to bring work gloves, boots, shovels, wheel barrows, trowels, pruners, knee pads/kneeling pads, hoe-type rakes, brooms, buckets or yard waste containers for collecting green waste and rain gear. 

Donor tiles are also available for purchase. For $100, a tile with the name of your choice can be installed in the park. For an extra $50. a tile would be put in the park and the donor would get a personal copy for home.

The site was previously home to an old Victorian house on the south end of the lot and a grocery store was located on the north lot. The grocery store was built in 1905 and operated as a neighborhood market until 1954.

Contact David Folweiler at David.Folweiler@BallardCornersPark.org or 206-714-4271 for more information.