Hawthorne Hills, the triangle shaped neighborhood just bordering the famed biking and walking trail on the south and Sandpoint Way NE on the east, is the lovely community known for it's Cape Cod style and brick Tudor style homes. Developed from the 1920's to the 1940's, one of the original seven homes that make up the neighborhood still stands on the southwest corner or NE 60th Street and Princeton Way. The Metropolitan Market, a fresh and slightly upscale corner market, is a busy grocery spot, once the site of Albertson's for many years, and before that, a large dairy farm where cattle grazed in the 1940's. How things have changed.

Many of the streets are named after college towns such as Stanford, Ann Arbor, Pullman, and Princeton. The area also boasts the Hawthorne Hills Veterinary Clinic and Professional Center side by side, and a great little Chinese Yummy Cafe Restaurant as well. Don't miss the wonderful old fashioned general store City People's. They sell everything from hardware, to boots, to stationary to clothing. And next door, you will
find a wonderful moderately wine selection at La Cantina Take a break from shopping and step into the aromatic coffee roaster next door at Gretchen's Place. They offer an array of baked goods and homemade salads and goodies, too.

The most attractive feature of this vibrant neighborhood is being just a hop, skip, and jump away from a whole slew of restaurants, shops, the University Village, and the University of Washington. The best part of it is, you can access all of these local hot spots by way of the Burke Gilman Trail. Stretching all the way from Woodinville on the north to Ballard on the south, this is a perfect way to travel that is healthy, earth friendly, and avoids all car traffic. What could be more fun?
All the more reason to live in the earth friendly and conveniently located community of Hawthorne Hills.

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