The Seattle Department of Transportation will begin work June 1 on a project the Greenwood Community Council has lobbied for the past few years.

The Greenwood Community Council has been working for years to complete the sidewalk grid in its neighborhood and requested funding from the Neighborhood Street Fund funded by the Bridging the Gap transportation initiative.

A sidewalk will be built on the west side of Fremont Avenue North to connect the existing sidewalks south of the Boys and Girls Club (at North 86th Street) to North 90th Street. The project will fill the gap in the sidewalk between the Boys and Girls Club, Greenwood Park and North 85th Street.

The city has also worked with Seattle Public Utilities to install a natural drainage system next to the sidewalk project. The green infrastructure will take water that would traditionally go into pipes
and allow it to permeate into the planting strip to support plants and trees.