Highline Botanical Garden
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Highline Botanical Garden (10.5 acres) is a new community botanical garden located at 13735 24th Avenue South, SeaTac, Washington. It is open daily without charge.
The garden started as the private plantings by Elda and Ray Behm on a 1-acre site. Their property was slated for demolition in the mid-1990s for the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport's proposed third runway. In 1999 an agreement was reached to relocate their existing plantings onto vacant land to form a new botanical garden adjacent to the North SeaTac Community Center. Starting in 2000, about 85 to 90% of the plants were transplanted by some 200 volunteers to form the garden's initial 2 acres. It now has a water feature and is under active development.
