The East Ballard Community Association announced today that landscape architect firm Mithun has been selected and approved to design the 14th Ave NW Park Boulevard.

"We’ve been sitting on pins and needles these past few weeks while awaiting an announcement from the Parks Dept on their approval for a Landscape Architect firm," Dawn Hemminger writes on the East Ballard Community Association blog. "At last, we got the word from Parks this week, and I’m happy to announce that Mithun has been selected and they have accepted! We’re very excited about the team that Mithun has put together for our project and we can’t wait to roll up our sleeves and get to work!"

The park boulevard steering committee had worked closely with Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation to assemble a list of very highly qualified and talented consultants to interview from firms like Kenneth Philp, KPG, Mithun, Otak, and Swift.

Hemminger says that while Swift declined to go for the job, they did offer to provide the park boulevard project with some pro bono work.

Deciding on a consultant was not an easy decision, Hemminger says and thanks "those at Kenneth Philp, KPG and Otak who showed such incredible enthusiasm for our park and who took the time and effort to get to know [the] project a little better."

"If you had told me 6 years ago when we started developing our big vision of a park boulevard on 14th that I'd be making this announcement today, I wouldn't have believed you," Hemminger said in an email. "But I now believe our community is strong enough to move mountains!"