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About Northgate
Northgate is an informal district of neighborhoods in north urban Seattle,
Washington, named for and surrounding Northgate Mall, the first covered mall in
the United States.[1] Its east-west principal arterials are NE Northgate Way and
130th Street, and its north-south principal arterials are Roosevelt Way NE and
Aurora Avenue N (SR 99). Minor arterials are College Way-Meridian Avenue N, 1st,
5th, and 15th avenues NE.[2] Interstate 5 runs through the district. Besides the
eponymous mall, the most characteristic distinctions of the area are North
Seattle Community College (NSCC), the south fork of the Thornton Creek
watershed, and the mosque.
Northgate neighborhoods are (north to south):
* Haller Lake and
* Pinehurst,
* Licton Springs–North College Park and
* Maple Leaf; map
As well as the informal district of neighborhoods, Northgate is also Northgate
Mall, the shopping center within the Maple Leaf neighborhood of Northgate.[4]
North College Park became defined with the Licton Springs neighborhood with the
establishment of North Seattle Community College (NSCC), opened 1970.[5] Licton
Springs takes its name from Liq'tid (LEEK-teed) or Licton, the Lushootseed (Whulshootseed)
Coast Salish word for the reddish mud of the springs—one of the few Puget Sound
Salish words still used as a place name.[6]
As headwaters of the south fork of the Thornton Creek watershed, Sunny Walter-Pillings
Pond and NSCC wetland in Licton Springs–North College Park are headwaters of
Thornton Creek under the Northgate Mall development. These neighborhoods are
natural extensions of Maple Leaf downstream.[7] Neighborhood activists and NSCC
have been promoting habitat restoration in support.[8]
The Sheihk Idriss Mosque in Pinehurst has architecture unique in Seattle. An
octagonal dome and a symbolic minaret, both sheathed in copper and capped with
crescent moons, red brick walls banded with buff brick and tall glass-block
windows topped with concrete lintels in the shape of Moorish arches distinguish
the first mosque in Seattle (1981) and the first mosque west of the Mississippi
River to be built in a Middle Eastern design.[9]
What is now Northgate has been inhabited since the end of the last glacial
period (c. 8,000 B.C.E.—10,000 years ago). The Dkhw’Duw’Absh, People of the
Inside and Xacuabš, People of the Large Lake,[10] Lushootseed (Skagit-Nisqually)
Coast Salish native people had used the Liq'tid Springs area as a spiritual
health spa. They harvested cranberries from the Slo’q `qed (SLOQ-qed, bald
head), an 85 acre (34 ha) marsh and bog at what is now the NSCC car park,
Interstate 5 interchange, and Northgate Mall. Large open areas for game habitat
and foraging (anthropogenic grasslands) were maintained in what are now these
neighborhoods by selective burning every few years. Today the Native American
descendents are represented by the Duwamish Tribe.