SUPER CORN! Originally uploaded by JamesH.
This article about corn maze season over at our favorite Seattle online magazine, The SunBreak, and a sudden uptick in searches for “seattle corn mazes” sending visitors to the site (somebody mentioned a corn maze in an old event listing) gave us a brilliant idea for how to use the empty lot at Broadway and John.
Capitol Hill corn maze.
Instead, CHS is talking to Sound Transit about a plan they’re more likely to go for. It’s too early to get into specifics but we think it would be a shame to pass up the opportunity to open up those fences even once.
When Sound Transit mentioned that they were finally open to event ideas, the Community Council tried to do some brainstorming. The problem was that it was too late in the year to do any of the events that came to mind. However, a corn maze is brilliant – it’d be awesome if it could be up on the lot during the day on Halloween. My only question is, how on earth are you going to pay for all that corn?
How would you get corn to stand up on asphalt? Pot it?
Hay bale maze or something like that seems infinitely more doable.
Ahem. Or something like that. With live music. It would be magical.
Getting late in the year – and any project will take money. Will they pay anything? They are not exactly broke …
And I do not think they want activity – but – the art stuff sounded good.
Giant light stuff in the middle working all night – why not.
(By the way, if they had not locked the gate, people would be using it – to bike, skate and just see the view from the middle.)
Oh, god too simple for bureaucrats …
So why is the space gated and locked anyway?
As MwC points out, if left open the space would find it’s populist use. Acessibility would result in use which is a true reflection of the neighborhood; any use would inherently be an organic growth of the neighborhood energy.
Ok, I’m admittedly off of in Wonderland. There’s legalities and liabilities and
all that junkother constraints. But one can imagine for a minute.LOL. I did get here by way of “Seattle corn maze” search. How could I pass up a corn maze right in my own neighborhood? I love it.