The Queen Anne/Magnolia Neighborhood Service Center, at 160 Roy St, Suite 100, will be permanently closed as of January 1, 2011, due to citywide budget cuts for the 2011-2012 year.
Photos courtesy of the Department of Neighborhoods.
The QA/Magnolia office is one of six neighborhood service centers that are shutting down for good at the end of this year. The others include the Capitol Hill NSC, Downtown NSC, Fremont NSC, Greater Duwamish NSC, and Greenwood NSC. The service centers that will remain open include the Central NSC, University NSC, Ballard NSC, Lake City NSC, Southeast NSC, Delridge NSC, and West Seattle NSC.
Located in each of the city’s 13 districts, these service centers have served as “Little City Halls”, where community members can go to find information about Seattle services and programs, visit their Neighborhood District Coordinator, or connect with other neighborhood-based groups.
The Neighborhood District Coordinator for Queen Anne and Magnolia, Christa Dumpys, will be continuing her work despite the loss of office space. According to a Queen Anne NDC staffer, she is currently in the process of looking for a new office “somewhere in Queen Anne,” so that she may continue to work closely within the community, she said.
The rest of the service center’s staff, however, will not be keeping their positions, and both the Uptown Alliance and Queen Anne Chamber of Commerce, which currently share office space with the QA/Magnolia service center in Lower Queen Anne, will also have to relocate.
We’re waiting for a call back from Christa about how the loss of the service center will affect the Queen Anne community, and will update this story as we hear more.