MILL CREEK — Construction on a long-awaited park jointly owned by Snohomish County and Mill Creek is likely to begin this summer.
Tambark Creek Park likely will be used by people in neighborhoods along 35th Avenue SE where new-home construction has boomed in recent years.
County parks officials hope to receive construction bids this spring and to start work this summer. A public meeting is scheduled April 13 to provide more details.
“We’ll go over what’s planned for the park,” senior county parks planner Sharon Swan said. “It’s going to be another community park, so it’s going to serve all those new homes that have gone in that area.”
The 40-acre property north of 180th Street SE includes a tract of woods. Eventual plans call for an artificial-turf soccer field, baseball fields, walking trails and an off-leash dog park.
The county owns 75 percent of the park and Mill Creek 25 percent. The land has been in their hands since the mid-1990s.
Part of the $70 million in settlement money that Snohomish County received in 2005 over King County’s Brightwater treatment plant is paying to build the park. The park was slated to receive $8 million of those funds.
Noah Haglund: 425-339-3465, nhaglund@heraldnet.com.
Meeting
An April 13 meeting is intended to provide the public with updates on the construction time table and features planned at Tambark Creek Park near Mill Creek. The meeting’s scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. in the county offices at Willis Tucker Park, 6705 Puget Park Drive, Snohomish.
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