Benefit Park

Location: 9320 38th Avenue S.

This park in South Beacon Hill was dilapidated and prone to vandalism until Friends of Benefit Park formed in 2002 to create a safer, more open green space. Seattle Parks Foundation provided Friends of Benefit Park with fundraising support and technical assistance through every step of the process, from selecting a landscape architect, to coordinating the complete renovation of the park. Today the park has been improved with a new children's play area, walkway around the perimeter, leveled basketball court, landscaping, and picnic shelter. The tremendously improved Benefit Park was dedicated in May of 2005.

This project was funded in part by a King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks grant.