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University Village is an upscale shopping center in Seattle, Washington, built at the south
corner of Ravenna neighborhood.[1] The 24
acre (97,000 m²) shopping center was built in 1956 across NE 45th
Street on an earlier part of the Montlake Landfill (since 1911,
1922-1966; home of J. P. Patches 1958-1981), taking out what
remained of the Union
Bay Marsh that was drained by the lowering of Lake Washington
as a result of the opening of the Lake Washington Ship Canal
(1913-1916).[2] Some
wetland was later partially restored as the Union
Bay Natural Area with the Center for Urban Horticulture.[3]
Until the early 1990s, the character of University Village was
decidedly different. Most of its businesses were small, and the
chain stores were all local: Ernst Home & Nursery,
Malmo Nurseries (acquired by Ernst), Lamonts Department Store (acquired by Gottschalks, 2000),[4] Pay 'n Save Drugs,
and QFC (a grocery). There was even a
bowling alley, Village Lanes. Many of the businesses began to
falter toward the end of the 1980s, however, and in 1993 the owners
of the mall decided to sell. The chairman of QFC and a partner
bought it, and tenants such as those mentioned above began to move
out. U-Village, as it is colloquially known, no longer has a
hardware store, but features upscale national stores such as Restoration Hardware, Pottery Barn,
Miller-Pollard, Banana Republic,
and Crate & Barrel instead (as well as
related local specialty stores). Despite this, 61% of U-Village
merchants are still local. (The Ernst and Pay n' Save corporate
chains went out of business in the 1990s; adjacent QFC still
nominally exists, but as a division of Kroger.)
Anchor tenants today are Barnes & Noble, local and
family-owned Bartell Drugs (since 1890),[5] Crate
& Barrel, The
Gap, and Pottery
Barn.[6]
Significant adjacent anchors are the Seattle QFC flagship store, a
large Safeway, and
an Office Depot.
In 1991, neighborhood activists initiated a campaign with the City
to "daylight" Ravenna Creek through Ravenna Park to
Lake Washington, but the segment from the park to the University of Washington (UW)
and the Union Bay Natural Area was
successfully blocked by the owners of University Village.[7]
The campus of the UW is to the west and south, the neighborhood
of Bryant
farther to the east, and the neighborhood of Ravenna to the north,[8] but
portions of the surrounding neighborhoods are often referred to as
being in "University Village" themselves, approximately west to
22nd Avenue NE, north to NE 55th Street, and east to Union Bay
Place NE and 30th Avenue NE. The area's principal arterials are
25th Avenue NE and NE 45th Street; 35th Avenue is a minor arterial.
Collector arterials are NE Blakeley-Union Bay Place NE and NE 55th
streets.[9]
Competing local shopping
See also
References
- ^
(1) Seattle City Clerk's Neighborhood
Map Atlas (n.d., map .jpg c. 17 June 2002). ""Ravenna", map". Office
of the Seattle City Clerk. http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~public/nmaps/html/NN-1085S.htm. Retrieved
2006-04-21.
Maps "NN-1030S",
"NN-1040S".jpg dated 17 June, 2002.
Note caveat in footer.
(2) ""About the Seattle City
Clerk's On-line Information Services", Information Services,
Seattle City Clerk's Office". Office of the Seattle City Clerk.
n.d.. http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~public/about.htm. Retrieved
2006-04-21.
See heading,
"Note about limitations of these data".
- ^
(1) Dorpat
(2) Phelps, pp. 59, 68. 207–208.
(3) Stein
- ^
Center for Urban Horticulture
- ^
""About Gottschalks"".
Gottschalks. n.d.. http://www.gottschalks.com/CompanyInfo/about.aspx. Retrieved
2006-06-21.
- ^
Warren
- ^
Largest by square footage, alphabetically. Next largest are Anthropologie, Banana Republic,
Fiorini Sports, Smith & Hawken, and Storables, alphabetically.
206 stores plus five offices.
""Map", Home > Information
> Map at [http://www.uvillage.com/map.asp "Map""] (PDF).
University Village. 2006-05-07. http://www.uvillage.com/pdf/UVillage_Directory.pdf. Retrieved
2006-05-21.
- ^
(1) ""Chronology"". Ravenna
Creek Alliance. n.d., August 1998 per Chronology. http://home.earthlink.net/~ravennacreek/chronology.htm. Retrieved
2006-04-21.
(2) Ravenna Creek Alliance (2005-11-09).
""Ravenna Creek Alliance:
Specific Info"". Earthlink. http://home.earthlink.net/~ravennacreek/specific.htm. Retrieved
2006-04-21.
(3) O'Neil
- ^
Seattle City Clerk's Neighborhood Map
Atlas (n.d., map .jpg c. 17 June 2002). ""Ravenna", map". Office
of the Seattle City Clerk. http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~public/nmaps/html/NN-1085S.htm. Retrieved
2006-04-21.
- ^
Seattle City Clerk's Neighborhood Map
Atlas (2004-01-12). "Low-Resolution Version"
(PDF). Street Classification Maps. Seattle Department of
Transportation. http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/streetclassmaps/planwebsmall.pdf. Retrieved
2006-04-21.
For browser use;
other versions for printing, cf. Bibliography. From "Principal, Minor and
Collector arterials", Seattle Department of Transportation,
2005.
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- ""About Gottschalks"".
Gottschalks. n.d.. http://www.gottschalks.com/CompanyInfo/about.aspx. Retrieved
2006-06-21.
- "About the Seattle City
Clerk's On-line Information Services", Information Services,
Seattle City Clerk's Office. Retrieved 21 April 2006. See heading,
"Note about limitations of these data".
- ""Chronology"". Ravenna
Creek Alliance. n.d., August 1998 per Chronology. http://home.earthlink.net/~ravennacreek/chronology.htm. Retrieved
2006-04-21.
- Dorpat, Paul (18 June 2001, updated May 2002). "Seattle Neighborhoods:
University District -- Thumbnail History". Retrieved 21 April
2006. HistoryLink page updated from Paul Dorpat, Seattle: Now
and Then Vols. 1, 2, and 3. Seattle: Tartu Publications, 1984,
1988);
Walt Crowley and
Paul Dorpat, "The Ave: Streetcars to Street Fairs", typescript
dated 1995 in possession of Walt Crowley and Paul Dorpat, Seattle,
Washington;
Walt Crowley, Rites of Passage. Seattle: University of
Washington Press, 1995;
Cal McCune, From Romance to Riot: A Seattle Memoir.
Seattle: Cal McCune, 1996;
Roy Nielsen, UniverCity: The City Within City: The Story of the
University District Seattle: University Lions Foundation, ca.
1986;
Clark Humphrey, Loser: the Real Seattle Music Story.
Portland, OR: Feral House, 1995.
- "HISTORY @ UBNA" (Union
Bay Natural Area). Center for Urban Horticulture (n.d., 1999 per "Montlake Landfill Information
Summary, January 1999" on page). Retrieved 21 April 2006.
- "Map", Home >
Information > Map at "Map", U Village. PDF
dated 7 May 2006. Retrieved 21 April 2006.
- O'Neil, Kit, University Community Urban Center (n.d., 1997 per
Chronology). "Ravenna Creek Daylighting
Project". Retrieved 21 April 2006].
- Phelps, Myra L. (1978). Public
works in Seattle. Seattle: Seattle Engineering Department.
ISBN 0-9601928-1-6.
- Ravenna Creek Alliance (9 November 2005). "Ravenna Creek Alliance:
Specific Info". Retrieved 21 April 2006.
- Ravenna Creek Alliance (9 November 2005). "What's New". Retrieved 21
April 2006.
- Seattle City Clerk's Neighborhood Map Atlas (n.d., map .jpg c.
17 June 2002). "Ravenna". Retrieved 21
April 2006.
Maps "NN-1030S", "NN-1040S".jpg dated 17 June, 2002.
- Stein, Alan J. "Patches, Julius
Pierpont", HistoryLink. 02 March 2003, retrieved 21
April 2006. Stein referenced Jack Broom, “The J.P. Generation,”
Pacific Magazine, The Seattle Times, 4 April
1993, pp. 6-11,14-17;
Bill Cartmel, “Hi Ya, Patches Pals,” Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, 11April 1971, pp. 6-7;
Erik Lacitis, “Patches Understands – and Survivies,” The
Seattle Times, 23 February 1978, p. A15;
[no title], The East Side Journal, 31 May 1962, p. 3;
Ibid. 14 May 1969, p. 19.
- ""Street Classification
Maps"". Seattle Department of Transportation. 2005. http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/streetclassmaps.htm. Retrieved
2006-04-21.
High-Resolution Version,
PDF format, 16.1 MB
Medium-Resolution
Version, PDF format, 1.45 MB 12 January 2004.
Low-Resolution Version,
PDF format, 825 KB 12 January 2004.
"Planned Arterials Map Legend
Definitions", PDF format. 12 January 2004.
The high resolution version is good for printing, 11 x 17. The low
and medium resolution versions are good for quicker online viewing.
[Source: "Street Classification Maps,
Note on Accessing These PDF Files"]
- Warren, James R. (updated 13 September 2004). "Bartell, George H. Sr.
(1868-1956)". 16 September 1999, corrected on 17 April 2002,
and updated on 13 September 2004. Retrieved 21 April 2006. Warren
referenced "A Century of Business," Puget Sound Business Journal,
September 17, 1999;
Junior Achievement of Greater Puget Sound Hall of Fame
Series;
"Bartell Drugs: All in the Family," Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
February 22, 2000, p. C-1;
Bartell Drugs Webpage (http://www.bartelldrugs.com).
"For information on the origin of the soda fountain see the "About
Inventors" Website (http://inventors.about.com)."
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