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February 4, 2010

Gates will use crane to lift giant maple

By JOURNAL STAFF

SEATTLE — A big leaf maple will be planted tomorrow at the entry to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation campus now under construction near Seattle Center.

Gustafson Guthrie Nichol is the project's landscape architect. The firm said in a press release that a crane will be used to place the tree, which has a trunk diameter of about 8 inches and weighs about 10,000 pounds.


 
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