Seattle Parks and Recreation is inviting the community to check out the newly developed play area and sports court at Hubbard Homestead Park in Northgate, a space the department says now offers a gathering spot for skaters, basketball players, street hockey fans, and families looking for a place to play. The park sits at 11203 5th Avenue NE and is open daily from 4 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.
The headline addition is a freshly paved multisport court that expanded the park's existing basketball court and added basketball hoops and goals at each end, according to Seattle Parks and Recreation. The project traces back to a department announcement describing the same expansion in detail, noting the upgrade would create a new paved sports court with hoops and goals on both ends, according to a Seattle Parks and Recreation bulletin. That same announcement said the park's renovated play area, which opened in March 2026, was expected to stay open throughout the sports-court construction.
A Kraken-Backed Build With Regional Company
Seattle Parks and Recreation worked with One Roof Foundation, described in the department's own bulletin as the philanthropic arm of the Seattle Kraken and Climate Pledge Arena, on the park improvement project. The NHL's website describes the result as a multisport court for street hockey, basketball and soccer, located at Hubbard Homestead Park just a block from Kraken Community Iceplex, per NHL.com. The outlet also notes the court sits within walking distance of James Baldwin Elementary and Olympic View Elementary.
King County contributed $50,000 toward the project, the same NHL.com report states. One Roof Foundation's own materials describe the Hubbard Homestead project as a venture it spearheaded with additional funding from the county, and the organization says top Kraken prospects took part with local youth in the court's opening, according to its website.
Conflicting Timelines on When It Actually Opened
Exactly when the court debuted is murky. Seattle Parks and Recreation's original project announcement said construction would begin June 1, 2026, with the contractor, LW Sundstrom, anticipating completion by late July 2026. A separate Seattle Parks and Recreation project listing pointed to a celebration on September 17, inviting the public to the park from 3 to 5 p.m. that day. But One Roof Foundation's own account places the court's opening on September 22, 2026, when Kraken prospects joined local kids at the site. The dossier of sources reviewed for this story does not resolve which date marks the court's true opening.
NHL.com frames the Hubbard Homestead build as the fifth such court in the region and the third opened by One Roof Foundation so far in 2026, underscoring a broader pattern of the Kraken's charitable arm funding multisport spaces across the Seattle area. For Northgate families, though, the headline is simpler: a park that already had a rebuilt play area now has more room to shoot hoops, play street hockey, or just gather outdoors, with the space open to the public every day from early morning into the evening.
