Council won’t fund Eastlake tree art
October 31, 2010
New: Oct. 31, 1:17 p.m.
The cluster of bare tree trunks in front of the Starbucks near Eastlake High School likely won’t become permanent sculptures after the City Council balked at the potential price tag.
The trees, which had begun to die in 2009 following the expansion of 228th Avenue, were chopped down to stumps and left while the city’s arts commission considered turning them into totem pole-like wood sculptures. They’ve sat undisturbed next to the road for the last year. Read more
