Last week, a group of 20 legislative staff from local, state, and federal offices joined the UW External Affairs team on a tour of the U District.
Participants visited: The Burke Museum, learning about the Genetic Resource Center, and the museum’s “New Burke” capital project; Sound Transit’s U District Station site for an update on construction and the agency’s light rail plans; Startup Hall to learn about the innovative partnership between UW, UpGlobal, and TechStars that is transforming the space into a hub for startups; Cultivate for conversation and lunch featuring locally-sourced food; The U District Partnership to hear about community engagement and collaboration on a range of issues; the Burke-Gilman Multimodal Connector Project to learn about changes coming to the trail; and finally an overview of the Bryants Park Project on the waterfront for a chance to hear about the future of the park, and the successful partnership to-date between the city, state, and University.
View photos from the tour on Facebook here and here.
If you missed last week’s tour, we hope you can join us for a visit in the future!
As always, please feel free contact us for more information, or to schedule a future visit. Also, be sure to stay tuned for more details on opportunities to visit our campuses this fall, which we’ll post here to the blog!