The Seattle Thunderbirds will play in front of their first sold out crowd in their new arena on Saturday, January 10th. The ShoWare Center at 625 W James St, is the new home for the Thunderbirds. People from all over the greater Puget Sound region are coming to participate and show their support.
Tickets and scheduling information are available at www.seattlethunderbirds.com or www.showarecenter.com.
Photo courtesy of Seattle Municipal Archives
Shannon Harvey, from Cascade Elementary School in Renton, was awarded The Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award. According to the Seattle Times, Cascade has "gone from 48 percent of students passing the reading test of the Washington Assessment of Student Learning to 81 percent passing the test".
For her exceptional leadership improving the education in her school, Ms. Harvey was awarded $25,000. She is making a difference in our community and with our future leaders. Here are some photos from the Milken Family Foundation Website.
Congratulations Shannon!
Are you interested in knowing how Normandy Park stacks up with it's neighboring cities? The city of Normandy Park has created a presentation comparing everything from tax rates on business to residential density. If you're looking to move into the area, you'll definitely want to take a look at this information.
"The Assessed Value of all property in Normandy Park is well above the average Assessed Value Per Capita of the comparable cities."
According to the Seatac Report, a quarterly newsletter published by the city of SeaTac, the city is an attractive place for residential, retail, and commercial projects.
"Current projects just completed, under construction, awaiting permitting, or in the conceptual phase total 1,600 residential units, 96,000 square feet of retail space, 301,800 square feet of industrial space, 710 hotel rooms, and 4,053 parking spaces".
The SeaTac Report states that the city council has been actively encouraging growth by developing a re-zoning plan near the Sound Transit Station and approving a tax exemption for multi family housing near light rail areas. For more information about these projects or public hearing dates, please visitwww.ci.seatac.wa.us.
Kent grows again! While the Kent Commons enriches our downtown area with it's public recreational facility and cultural activities (among other things) the Kent Events Center will balance that out nicely as our first professional sports arena and home of the Seattle Thunderbirds. My family can hardly wait to have a major league sports team in town!
Artist's Rendering of the Events Center
