| Waterfall Garden Park | |
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| UPS Park, UPS Waterfall Park | |
 The park in 2007 | |
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| Type | |
| Location | Second and Main Streets,Pioneer Square,Seattle[1] |
| Coordinates | 47°36′01″N122°19′55″W / 47.60028°N 122.33194°W /47.60028; -122.33194 |
| Opened | 1978 |
| Designer | Masao Kinoshita |
| Owned by | Annie E. Casey Foundation |
Waterfall Garden Park, also calledUPS Park andUPS Waterfall Park, is a private 60-by-80-foot (18 m × 24 m)pocket park inSeattle,Washington, created in 1978 at the originalUnited Parcel Service building inPioneer Square. It is open to the public during the day and closed at night. The park was designed byMasao Kinoshita with Sasaki Associates[2][3] and funded byAnnie E. Casey Foundation to commemorate UPS's founder,James Casey.[4] The park is named for a manmade 22-foot (6.7 m) tall waterfall over which is pumped 5,000 US gallons (19,000 L) of water per minute.[4] It is described as "one of the most expensive parks per square foot ever built in the United States".[5]Roger Sale says in the guidebookSeeing Seattle that the park is locked at night to keep out the sizeable Pioneer Squarehomeless population.[6]
The park'sJapanese garden includesChamaecyparis obtusa and other botanicals native to Japan, and a pool designed byYoshikuni Araki.[7][8] The garden won the Environmental Award of the American Nurserymens Association in 1981.[2]
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