SPU Urban Tree Nursery
Project description
SPU urban tree nursery: Growing a healthy urban forest
Seattle Public Utilities’ Trees for Neighborhoods program is building a tree nursery to support our residential planting program. Once construction is complete, the facility will provide trees for the program but be closed to the public for day-to-day operations.
- Video: Trees for Neighborhoods Cedar City Nursery Opening
- At Your Service Blog: Ready in 2026 – A New Tree Nursery
Location
Public entrance: 711 NW 100th St, Seattle, WA 98177
Service entrance: 9740 8th Ave NW, Seattle, WA 98117
This Seattle Public Utilities' owned property in Crown Hill includes a 30” concrete culvert that carries Pipers Creek from a ravine (south of the property) to the ravine in Carkeek Park (north of the property across NW 100th Pl).
What's happening now?
Site construction is mostly complete, and an opening celebration is planned for October 29, 2025. The nursery name will be announced at the opening celebration. Some trees will move into the nursery in fall 2025, and the nursery will begin its first year of full operations in 2026.
Community benefits
Trees catch rain and slow runoff, clean our air and water, cool sidewalks and homes, and make our neighborhoods healthier. This nursery will support the Trees for Neighborhoods planting program by:
- Stabilizing tree supply
- Improving tree availability and varieties
- Increasing availability of climate resilient species
Since 2009, the Trees for Neighborhoods planting program has helped Seattle plant over 15,400 trees at homes, schools, businesses, gathering places, and along streets. That’s 15,400 more trees working to slow rain runoff, clean our air and water, cool sidewalks and homes, and make our neighborhoods healthier! This nursery will stabilize annual tree supply for this program.
- Summer 2025: Nursery Construction
- Fall 2025: Nursery Opening