{"id":42511,"date":"2019-10-02T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-to-get-325000-county-grant-for-mill-creek-canyon-park-expansion\/"},"modified":"2019-10-02T16:23:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T23:23:54","slug":"kent-to-get-325000-county-grant-for-mill-creek-canyon-park-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-to-get-325000-county-grant-for-mill-creek-canyon-park-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent to get $325,000 county grant for Mill Creek Canyon park expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>King County Councilmember Dave Upthegrove announced Wednesday that the city of Kent will receive a $325,000 grant to expand <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/3fSgkL3aLTwU6uLTA\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"map\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mill Creek Canyon Earthworks <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/3fSgkL3aLTwU6uLTA\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"map\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Park<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The city will use the money to purchase a lot of land adjacent to the park and which, when combined with a previously-purchased parcel, will become a new southern entryway and trailhead for the park, according to a county news release.<\/p>\n<p>Expanding Mill Creek Canyon Park, 100 Reiten Road, will improve the connection between downtown Kent and nearby neighborhoods, and will allow the city to preserve the park&rsquo;s habitat for mature second growth trees, local deer, coyote and native songbirds.<\/p>\n<p>The grant is funded from King County&rsquo;s Conservation Futures program, dedicated to purchasing open space lands and conservation easements across the county.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m excited that King County is partnering with the city of Kent to expand Mill Creek Canyon Park and make it nicer and more accessible,&rdquo; Upthegrove said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City will buy land adjacent to park <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":42512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-42511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42511"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}