Picture Perfect Queen Anne
PPQA Thanks Seattle Tree Care
PPQA would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to Seattle Tree Care for their generous donation of many yards of mulch for our gardens.
Their support will have a meaningful impact on our organization by helping to reduce annual maintenance costs, lessening water consumption, and keeping our gardens healthy and thriving. In addition, this donation helps us save significantly on our mulch expenses, allowing us to direct more resources toward serving our community.
We are especially grateful for how accommodating Seattle Tree Care has been in coordinating delivery in time for our Community Mulching Party on May 16. Partnerships like these make a real difference, and we deeply appreciate Seattle Tree Care for investing in the beauty and sustainability of our shared community spaces.
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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