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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? By: Kaylan Duthie
Where are the Students Coming From? Apartment Complexes Mobile Homes
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
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
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)
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%
Community Resources • Bothell Library KCLS • Cascadia and UWB • Northshore Performing Arts Center • Churches w/ youth groups • HopeLinkFoodbank
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
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