Community Blogs
Seattle Fandango Project
Wellspring Family Services play area
Thelma Fisher Dewitty
Delridge is an area of dells and ridges near the Delridge valley. Bounded by the Duwamish River to the north and east, unincorporated White Center to the south and West Seattle to the west, it includes such neighborhoods as Youngstown, Pigeon Point, Westwood and Highland Park.
Some Neighborhood Notables
Visualize Delridge
In 2006, graduate students in the UW Department of Urban Design and Planning worked with the Delridge community to develop a Visualize Delridge plan focusing on economic development, trail connectivity, housing, opportunity spaces and urban design.
Neighborhood Design/Build Studio
In 2009, the Howard S. Wright Neighborhood Design/Build Studio created a safe play area for homeless children at Wellspring Family Services, 23rd Avenue and Rainier Avenue South. Sixteen undergraduate and graduate students at the UW met the challenge.
Frank B. Cooper Elementary School
The Frank B. Cooper Elementary School in North Delridge has a long tradition of diversity and tolerance and is historically associated with Thelma Fisher Dewitty, who attended graduate school at the University of Washington. Dewitty’s appointment in 1947 as Seattle public school’s first African American teacher began to break down the deep racial barriers that existed at that time.
Boosting Local Economies
The UW Industrial Assessment Center believes that managing industrial energy is a responsibility shared by the entire industrial community. In order to achieve a greater level of energy efficiency, a team composed mainly of engineering faculty and graduate-level students from the Department of Electrical Engineering provides small- and medium-sized manufacturers with free energy assessments.