Maple Leaf made SeattleMet‘s list of the city’s “20 best places to live now” in the magazine’s April issue.
Online, “Happily Hidden” Maple Leaf comes right after “Still Funky After All These Years” Fremont and before “Unexpected Diversity” Laurelhurst.
After mentioning Reckless Video and Cloud City Coffee, as “little gems the residents would just as soon keep to themselves,” the piece ends with:
Once the ongoing development of Maple Leaf Park (which includes burying the Maple Leaf Reservoir and adding an off-leash area) wraps up in the next few years, though, it’s only a matter of time before dog walkers and stroller pushers weary of the shoulder-to-shoulder congestion along Green Lake begin to venture north.
Funny, last we’d heard the off-leash area was still on some residents’ wish list but NOT on the current park plan. We’ll have to check back.
I was devastated when I read here they weren’t going to put in an off leash area when we lobbied so hard for it as a neighborhood. Do they just not care what the people of the neighborhood want at all?
I was excited when I read that article too because I’m hoping they did decide to have an off leash dog area and that it wasn’t poor reporting. If it was #2 on the most requested things that got put in on the list, how come it got knocked and #5 & 7 didn’t?
@Clayton: You have a point. The Seattle Weekly has just released a special section on the city’s “100 (or so)” best restaurants. The only one in Maple Leaf is … Marie Callender’s.
@ConcernedCitizen:
I do live near there. I agree, but I believe most of the rif raf that occurs in Maple Leaf isn’t from actual residents. It’s all the BS that passes through here from ghetto gate and crack city, I mean Northgate and Lake City. It’s the downfall of living in the crossroads. Although, there are a lot worse things than some people have a good time late at night.
MapleLeafBob – do you live any where near 88th & Roosevelt ? On Saturday night the “hood” paid a visit to Maple Leaf. Maple Leaf is becoming sketchy – look out North Gate we have become one with you. Peace out ADWAS and thanks for the “partayyyyy !”
We’re the further South version of Haller Lake. 🙂
Sort of sucks that we get lumped in with Northgate. I realize we are so small, but the reality is that Northgate has some pretty bad stereotypes, just like Lake City.
Also, its not good that we have a higher number of crimes per 1000 residents than freaking North Rainier and the U-District.
Oh well, I still love our little Maple Leaf and am not going anywhere anytime soon.
What a joke – Maple Leaf is a great neighborhood, but this SeattleMet feature is just another poorly researched opinion peice contrived to drive internet traffic/sell subscriptions to target demographic…
“They call it paradise; I don’t know why. You call some place paradise, kiss it good-bye.” – Don Henley, “The Last Resort”