Good Turn Park - Seattle

From Eastlake Ave Blog:



The park, which sits on the Lake Union shore in the shadow of the I-5 Ship Canal bridge, is open to the public but not owned by the city. A history of the neighborhood on the Eastlake Community Council's Web site has the story:

Built in 1993, the park was funded entirely by abutting property owners Homer Bergren and the late Jim Nordstrom. Its name honors the Boy Scout pledge to do a good turn for someone every day. The beach is sandy and shallow; ample parking is available nearby. The Olmsted-Fairview Park Commission and Eastlake Community Council are now applying for City Neighborhood Matching Funds to expand the park toward Fairview Avenue, based on a design by Tom Zachary in cooperation with Richard Haag Associates.

The Seattle Times, in a story on the dedication of the park in 2000, said it had cost the city only about $15,000. Bergren and Nordstrom spent about $50,000 on the park and neither lived to see the project completed.