After last week's full city council vote, Seattle Parks had been approved for the purchase of both Seattle School District surplus properties Webster Park and Crown Hill Elementary; however they do not expect to close in on any deals until mid-January.

Crown Hill Elementary priced at $5.4 million and Webster's purchase price was $1.6 million.

In October Small Faces Child Development finalized a purchase price for the former Crown Hill Elementary School building from the Seattle School District after it was declared as surplus property.

The building and childcare playground was finalized at a purchase price of $1,003,000.

Last week on the same property the Seattle Parks Department was approved for purchase of the playground and playfield area.

With the recently passed Parks and Green Spaces Levy in November, there will now be money to make improvements to the Crown Hill Playground said Donald Harris, manager 2 of Seattle Parks and Recreation.

As for Webster Park, a park sharing property with the Nordic Heritage Museum and currently leasing the former Webster Elementary building, originally deemed surplus property, it already possesses a playground and changes will not be made to it.

"There was a lease on the property, but we had to buy out underlying fee ownership," said Harris. "We now own the property and are not leasing it. Webster has no nexus with the (parks) levy so we allocated other park resources to reimburse from King County to allocate the park land. "

Allison Espiritu may be reached at 783-1244 or allisone@robinsonnews.com.