North

Extending north from the Lake Washington Ship Canal to North 145th Street, the North Seattle neighborhood includes the communities of Lake City, Matthews Beach, Maple Leaf and Northgate, where light rail will soon be added to a major King County transit hub.
Northgate was the subject of an Outstanding Degree Project on Community Development by Jennifer Thacker at the Evans School of Public Affairs in 2008, and Matthews Beach is a favorite hangout for UW students.

Some Neighborhood Notables

North Seattle resident Ana Mari Cauce is Provost of the University of Washington. As the chief academic and budget officer, she facilitates administrators and faculty in finding innovative but economical approaches to creating a rich academic atmosphere on campus.

Northgate Transit Center

Seven graduate and undergraduate students in Advanced Architectural Studies are helping to redesign the Metro Northgate Transit Center south of Northgate Mall. They have been asked to think 20 years into the future, making Northgate into an urban village where bus, rail, bicycle and pedestrian transportation take center stage instead of automobiles.

Thornton Creek

KUOW Radio features Thornton Creek as part of a four-part Our Big Backyard series on the magic of Seattle’s urban creeks. The station is operated by Puget Sound Public Radio (PSPR) under an agreement with the University of Washington.

The Arabian Theatre

The theater at 7610 Woodland Park Ave. N, was started by pioneer motion picture exhibitor and philanthropist John Danz, who with his wife, Jessie, endowed The Jessie and John Danz Fund at the UW to bring lecturers of national and international reputation to campus.

Northgate Neighborhood Clinic

The University of Washington opened the Northgate Neighborhood Clinic at 314 N.E. Thornton Place in March 2012. The clinic offers a complete spectrum of primary care services for the entire family, including obstetrics and travel medicine services. It also offers an on-site laboratory, digital X-ray facilities, and nutrition services.

Boosting Local Economies

In a 2010 competition, an interdisciplinary team of engineering and business students in North Seattle received an Environmental Innovation Challenge Award in a competition sponsored by the UW Foster School of Business to promote clean technology. NanoWAVE Lighting is a highly efficient LED lighting solution for plants grown indoors. Many technologies developed at the University of Washington have transferred to the private sector to become start-up companies within the North Seattle community, including:

• Helionics, which provides biomaterial solutions to medical device manufacturers.
• Ionographics, a computer-aided electrochemical microfabrication technology company.