page_title: Hing Hay Park
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Hing Hay Park / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Image taken of Hing Hay Park and the Bush Hotel in the Seattle Chinatown/International District, March 2018. The prominent foreground features are in the new Hing Hay Park Expansion (completed in 2017); the background shows the pavilion (1975) and Bush Hotel (1915, now the Bush-Asia Center) and a portion of the dragon mural painted by John Woo on the Bush-Asia Center. Compared to the original, this image has been processed in Hugin to restore vertical lines from a tilted perspective and remove keystoning/convergence of the large building.
context_page_description: Hing Hay Park is a 0.64-acre public park in the Chinatown–International District neighborhood of downtown Seattle, Washington, United States. The park is located on the north side of South King Street between 6th and Maynard avenues, east of Union Station and the Historic Chinatown Gate. It was built in 1973 and includes a pavilion, community games, and two gateways.
  The park is a noncontributing property within the Seattle Chinatown Historic District described in 1986. Both are within the Seattle Chinatown International District established by City Ordinance 119297 in 1988.
context_section_description: Funds to purchase the buildings and land at the corner of Maynard and King were made available by the Forward Thrust bond initiative, approved by voters in 1968. During the planning phase, the proposed park was generically named the International District Mini Park. The original park space was designed by the landscape architecture firm of Sakuma, James, and Peterson, led by S.K. Sakuma; the land was previously occupied by the Specie Bank of Seattle, built in 1911, and the park, originally 0.33 acres (1,300 m²), was completed in 1973.
  The pavilion and furniture were donated by the then Mayor of Taipei after a visit to Seattle in the early 1970s. He met with then King County Council member Ruby Chow, who explained to him that the city had purchased and torn down the condemned buildings on the land, proposing a park instead, but it needed to be as care free as possible because the city could not afford on going maintenance costs. After discussions with Ruby Chow, the mayor of Taipei offered to donate the brickwork, pavilion and bulletin board from his own private funds. He sent over a crew of trained workers to aid in its construction; the pavilion was completed in 1975.
caption: Bush Hotel and expanded Hing Hay Park (March 2018)
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