Seattle City Council Votes To Name Park After JIMI HENDRIX

According to The Seattle Times, The City Council voted unanimously Monday (May 22) to name a new park in the Central Area after legendary musician and Seattle native Jimi Hendrix.

The new five-acre park, expected to open this fall, would be next to a proposed $20 million Northwest African American Museum. Several council members said such a tribute to Hendrix was overdue. Now, the city's only official memorial to Hendrix, who died in 1970 from an overdose of alcohol and sleeping pills, is a rock named after the guitarist in Woodland Park Zoo.

Parks Superintendent Ken Bounds has the final say on naming the park.