A Miracle In Downtown Bellevue: The Story Of The Bellevue Downtown Park

This is the extraordinary story of the Bellevue Downtown Park, a stunning, once in a generation, achievement. Significant, influential downtown parks are exceedingly rare in this country, particularly in suburban or edge cities. Great cities have great park systems and great park systems have signature urban parks. The Bellevue Downtown Park set the standard for Bellevue's world class park system. This amazing park is the product of exceptional leadership, political courage, exemplary collaboration and a coherent vision. This book is a tribute to the hearty band of special community leaders who did what needed to be done to leave a marvelous legacy to future generations of residents, employees and visitors. The Bellevue Downtown Park is a source of pride and identity for the citizens of Bellevue and its story should be of interest to both Bellevue residents and urban park advocates everywhere--Page 4 of cover.

• | Author: Lee Springgate
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: May 02, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 122 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1535199512
• | ISBN-13: 9781535199513