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Ballard is a neighborhood in northwestern Seattle, Washington, United States.Formerly an independent city, the City of Seattle's official boundaries define it as bounded to the north by Crown Hill (N.W. 85th Street), to the east by Greenwood, Phinney Ridge and Fremont (along 3rd Avenue N.W.), to the south by the Lake Washington Ship Canal, and to the west by Puget Sound's Shilshole Bay. [1]
The district consists of Ballard Avenue N.W. between N.W. Market Street and N.W. Dock Place, and is located near to and along Salmon Bay. After initial work by the Ballard Avenue Association and the city of Seattle's Urban Conservation Division, Seattle mayor Wes Uhlman signed the ordinances that led to the national recognition of the area. [2]
The Ballard Building is a historic building in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood, in the U.S. state of Washington.It was built by the Fraternal Order of Eagles in the 1920s. [1] [2] The terracotta building has housed a community hospital, restaurants and other businesses, [3] including a music venue called the Backstage, which closed in 1998.
The Ballard News-Tribune is a weekly newspaper serving the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.It was founded in 1891 [1] and has a circulation of 9,500. It is one of the Robinson Newspapers, a group of newspapers in the Seattle-Tacoma area which includes the West Seattle Herald, White Center News, Highline Times, Des Moines News, SeaTac News, and Federal Way News.
We Heart Seattle (WHS), formerly We Heart Downtown Seattle and incorporated as I Heart Downtown Seattle in October 2020, is a volunteer organization responding to trash and homelessness in Seattle. Its founder and executive director is Andrea Suarez, a resident of Seattle 's Belltown neighborhood. [ 1 ]
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W. R. Ballard circa 1890. Captain William Rankin Ballard (August 12, 1847 – February 4, 1929) was a Seattle pioneer, banker, [1] and land developer. [2] He was one of the founders of the city of Ballard, Washington (incorporated in 1890) which was later annexed to the growing city of Seattle, Washington in 1907. [3]
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