The Crown Hill Business Association received a grant to add murals to the neighborhood's signal control boxes, such as this one on Second Avenue in Downtown, this summer.
The Crown Hill Business Association recently received a $3,000 grant from the Seattle Office of Economic Development it will be using to commission five murals on the neighborhood's signal control boxes.
Signal control boxes are the ground-level metal cabinets found at most intersections with four-way traffic signals.
Murals have already been added to signal control boxes in various Seattle neighborhoods, including Downtown, Capitol Hill and Columbia City.
Catherine Weatbrook of the Crown Hill Business Association said the association is currently looking for artists to paint the five signal control boxes. They are talking with Urban ArtWorks, as well as individual artists and Crown Hill-based programs.
Weatbrook said there are numerous aspects of Crown Hill that could serve as inspiration for the murals, such as the neighborhood's ravines and orchards or its history as a logging village and a place that was "on the wrong side of the tracks."
The five signal control boxes are located at the intersections of Northwest 80th Street and 15th Avenue Northwest, Northwest 85th Street and 15th Avenue, 15th Avenue and Holman Road Northwest, Holman Road and Mary Avenue Northwest, and Sixth Avenue Northwest and Holman Road.
Weatbrook said the Crown Hill Business Association is planning for painting to start Aug. 1.
