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Where and What is Canyon Park?

Where and What is Canyon Park?. By: Kaylan Duthie. Where are the Students Coming From?. Apartment Complexes. Mobile Homes. Where is the nearest “City”?. How did Bothell come to be?. Populated by the Sammammish Tribe until 1870’s

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Where and What is Canyon Park?

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  1. Where and What is Canyon Park? By: Kaylan Duthie

  2. Where are the Students Coming From? Apartment Complexes Mobile Homes

  3. Where is the nearest “City”?

  4. How did Bothell come to be? • Populated by the Sammammish Tribe until 1870’s • 1870 ColombusGreeleaf and George Wilson built homes, followed by 8 families in next 6 years • 1876 George Brackett (Canadian) built logging camp • Now Brackett’s Landing • 1885 Sold 80 acres to David Bothell (Pennsylvanian) • First postmaster (Gerhard Erickson) bought property in 1888 and named town

  5. How did Bothell come to be?

  6. How did Bothell come to be?

  7. How did Bothell come to be?

  8. How did Bothell come to be? • Incorporated in 1909 • Logging and Boating transportation town • Shortly after, Army Corp of Engineers dredged and straightened the River • 1917 Lake Washington Lowered, boat traffic ended, logging stopped • Brick road built to Seattle and Bothell became farming town

  9. How did Bothell come to be? • Post WWII: • Better highways built and suburban development • Pop. of 1,000 in 1950 • Now: • Much of employment in high technology sectors • Biotechnology and software • Cascadia and branch campus of UW (UWB)

  10. Current Demographics of Bothell (5 mile radius, 2007 Projections) • Pop: 203,936 • Households: 79,959 • Avg Household Size: 2.5 • Average Income: $75,000 • Owner Occupied: 70% • Renter Occupied: 30% • White: 81% • Asian: 10% • Hispanic or Latino: 6% • Black or African American: 2% • American Indian: <1%

  11. Community Resources • Bothell Library  KCLS • Cascadia and UWB • Northshore Performing Arts Center • Churches w/ youth groups • HopeLinkFoodbank

  12. Future Plans • Council Member Bill Evans currently rallying for Community Center • swimming pools, gymnasiums, current fitness facilities, climbing rock, indoor playground, dance studio, arts & crafts areas designed for the entire family as well as individual age groups • Bothell Landing • Turning into large park with shopping, dining, family activities over the next 10 years

  13. What do the Kids do in Bothell? • Skate Park Downtown (188th and Bothell Way) • Bracketts Landing? • Bothell Landing? • Friday nights at Pop Keeney followed/preceded by the Ranch Drive-In

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