Picture Perfect Queen Anne
Picture Perfect Queen Anne has received a $1,000.00 Neighborhood Grant from The Starbucks Foundation! The result of a nomination from a local Starbucks partner (employee), the grant was given in recognition of the important work PPQA continues to do to ensure the streetscape of Queen Anne Avenue from Galer to McGraw remains vibrant and welcoming.
The gardens at Galer, Boston, and McGraw are the most visible and celebrated features of the Queen Anne Avenue Streetscape Master Plan---a plan created by the community during three public workshops PPQA hosted in 2005/06. As such, PPQA will use the Starbucks grant to purchase plants, species tulip bulbs, and soil amendments to add to the garden beds at our Fall Garden Work Party on Saturday, October 24, 2026.
We are grateful to have the generous support of The Starbucks Foundation's Neighborhood Grants program that supports grassroots, community-led nonprofit organizations like Picture Perfect Queen Anne. This program demonstrates how local partnerships between Starbucks partners, customers, and nonprofits strengthens communities.
We also extend our sincere thanks to all in our neighborhood whose support made this award possible.
Keeping Queen Anne Avenue Welcoming, Commercially Vibrant and Neighborhood Friendly
By the early 2000’s, the Upper Queen Anne retail core was looking drab and rundown. Its appearance no longer reflected the warmth and welcoming spirit of our neighborhood. A group of residents and small business owners got together to change this.
As Picture Perfect Queen Anne, the group secured a funding award from the Department of Neighborhoods to bring the community together to create a vision for Queen Anne Avenue between Galer and McGraw. Over the course of three public meetings, neighbors worked together to answer a core question: What makes a great place? Their responses became the foundation for the Queen Anne Avenue Streetscape Master Plan---a design for a vibrant and people-friendly retail core.
Today, Picture Perfect Queen Anne (PPQA) continues to use the Streetscape Master Plan as a guide for all the work it does. PPQA is still an all-volunteer, grassroots neighborhood nonprofit focused on promoting the principles and elements that make great places. We collaborate with other neighborhood groups to advocate for public spaces in new developments as well as for building designs that blend in with surrounding older buildings and preserve a neighborhood feel.
PPQA’s impact on public spaces can be seen most vividly in the gardens at Galer, Boston, and McGraw. Although these gardens are located on the public sidewalks and in the greenbelt alongside the Galer Stairs, the professional care of these gardens is funded by You---our neighbors.
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