Waterfall Garden Park, also called UPS Park and UPS Waterfall Park, is a private pocket park in

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, created in 1978 at the original

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building in

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. It is open to the public during the day and closed at night. The park was designed by

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with Sasaki Associates and funded by

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to commemorate UPS's founder, James Casey. The park is named for a manmade tall waterfall over which is pumped of water per minute. It is described as "one of the most expensive parks per square foot ever built in the United States".

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says in the guidebook ''Seeing Seattle'' that the park is locked at night to keep out the sizeable Pioneer Square homeless population. The park's

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includes

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and other botanicals native to Japan, and a pool designed by

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. The garden won the Environmental Award of the American Nurserymens Association in 1981.

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