Green Lake Community Center, Play Area, and Evans Pool Redevelopment
Updated: August 14, 2025
Summer 2025
Seattle Parks and Recreation (SPR) is excited to announce that we have funding to resume the planning, design, and construction for the replacement of the Evans Pool, Green Lake Community Center, and Play Area. In 2020, SPR kicked off the project and completed a conceptual design phase. Since that time, the Evans Pool Building has been designated a Seattle Landmark, which places limits on alterations to the Evans Pool building and requires us to update the conceptual design created in 2020.
The design team has been working to update the building layout to preserve the unique Evans Pool roof form and ensure that the project remains within the limits of our available funding. We are working to finalize an updated conceptual design for the community center and play area and prepare initial cost estimates. We anticipate sharing these designs with the public at community meetings in fall of 2025.
Schedule
Site Analysis and Predesign: Completed in 2020
Planning: 2025
Design and Permitting: 2025-2026
Construction: 2027 - 2028
Budget
New Community Center and Pool: $59,000,000 total. Of the total, $3 million is secured for initial planning and design and $56 million will be bonded in 2026.
Play Area: $2.2 million from the Seattle Park District
Current Community Participation
To restart our engagement on the project, we anticipate hosting a first public event in the fall of 2025 to provide project updates and get feedback on the community center layout.
We anticipate hosting a second public event in 2026 to share a final schematic design and get final feedback from the public ahead of the technical design and permitting phase.
2020 Community Participation on Site Analysis and Predesign
Thank you to the over 4,000 people who participated in our 2020-2021 engagement opportunities! The information collected in the engagements provided us with a starting point for our current design.
Online Open House - May 2020
Online Events - July/August 2020
Online Open House - November/December 2020