Jackson Park GC ( 1930) in Seattle, WA possible development

[Steve_ Shaffer]

Seattle can house 35,000 people on Jackson Park Golf Course by building on 60 acres of fairway and converting the remaining 100 forested acres to public park space.
By the year 2025, you will be able to take a 15-minute train ride from Downtown Seattle to a stop adjacent to 160 acres of publicly-owned land. There is no housing here, no shops, no roads, and the property is operating in the red. I’m talking about Jackson Park Municipal Golf Course. Golf participation isn’t just down in Seattle, it’s down nationwide. Whether it’s the time commitment, or the high cost it takes just to buy equipment, golf is bleeding participants and city money and Seattle has yet to come to grips with this reality.The City of Seattle has begun to study what to do with excess publicly-owned property. Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda has brilliantly proposed leveraging surplus public properties for dense affordable housing. With the land already acquired, the city saves precious housing funds and gets to decide how it’s developed.
https://www.theurbanist.org/2020/05/27/lets-tee-off-for-housing/amp/



http://www.premiergc.com/-course

[Daryl David]

“Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda has brilliantly proposed leveraging surplus public properties for dense affordable housing”


Brilliant and a Seattle City Council member are words seldom used in the same sentence. 

[Garland Bayley]

“Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda has brilliantly proposed for dense affordable housing”

Brilliant and a Seattle City Council member are words seldom used in the same sentence. 

[Garland Bayley]

The course may be under utilized, because when the governor shut down golf, everyone in Seattle started travelling to Portland to play golf.

[Joe Zucker]

This is sad to hear, but not too surprising given the climate in Seattle.  Zoning apartments to a maximum of 4 stories less than 3 miles from downtown is probably a larger issue though. 


This was my home course for the 3 years I lived in Seattle and the golf architecture world won't lose much if it goes away.  There are a few good holes (14 is the best), but also a lot of really awkward ones.  It's main selling feature is that it's close to the city and convenient. I'm not sure why they wouldn't tear up Interbay too, since that is even closer.