Comstock Neighborhood is a single family, upper income residential area on Spokane’s South Hill. Anchored by Comstock Park, the neighborhood benefits from its stability and superb location. From a planner’s perspective, the absence of sidewalks and an abundance of cul-de-sacs lesson Comstock’s neighborhood value. From a market perspective, however, Comstock is one of the highest valued neighborhoods on the list of Spokane’s Best Neighborhoods.
Overall, homes within Comstock establish a presence from the street. Yet, because there are no sidewalks and ranchers don’t lend themselves well to front porches, the neighborhood scores low within this category.
Comstock is likely the first neighborhood built in Spokane that hangs it hat on an abundance of cul-de-sacs. Because many of the streets within the neighborhood have no outlet, Comstock scores poorly in this category.
Sidewalks are hard to find in the Comstock Neighborhood. If you’re looking for a leisurely stroll along a quiet, tree-lined sidewalk, you’ll have to look elsewhere.
Being a mature neighborhood, Comstock has an abundance of foliage. Although not technically uniform street trees, the neighborhood is quite green, nevertheless.
Comstock Park is similar in almost every way to Audubon Park (the 9th best park in Spokane) except for one significant factor, instead of a simple splash pad, Comstock has a full-blown pool and aquatics area. Comstock Park is the first park on the list located on Spokane’s South Hill in the Comstock neighborhood. At nearly 25 acres, with rolling greens, mature trees, playgrounds, and ball fields, you may be surprised to hear that Comstock is one of the worst parks on the South Hill of Spokane. This says much about Spokane’s superior quality of park design compared to other cities, big and small, throughout the country.
The neighborhood surrounding Comstock is generally upper-income and one of the more desirable locations in Spokane. Like Audubon Park on the north side, Comstock is the South Hill’s preferred destination for outdoor summer concerts.
The unemComstock Park is one of many philanthropic works in Spokane. By the 1930s, park design had different priorities, recreation rather than contemplation and an emphasis on youth activities. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Shadle donated 21 acres and $150,000 to create the park in memory of Mrs. Shadle’s father and former Spokane mayor, J. M. Comstock.
Mr. Comstock was considered one of the early pioneers of Spokane, active in the community from the moment he arrived in 1899. He was instrumental in starting The Crescent, one of the largest department stores in Spokane, and he was active in the Spokane River Parkways Association, whose goal was to beautify the Spokane riverbanks and create a highway to connect the Bowl and Pitcher, Seven Mile, Deep Creek Canyon, and other areas along the river east and west of the city.
Harold T. Abbott, landscape architect and recently appointed foreman of the park designed the landscape, laid out the grounds, and supervised the project. Later he would become the parks board president.
The opening ceremony was held on July 1, 1938 and according to the Spokesman Review, those in attendance could “witness every conceivable sport in the park in progress.” People were playing touch football, tennis, horseshoes, cricket, volleyball, paddle tennis, checker names, and swimming. The swimming pool was large enough for a tournament and state of the art for its time.
One other achievement made the news, the headline read, “Speaking of women getting in todays workday picture more than ever before, how about these ladies, overseers of the city’s pool minded children,” with a photo of several women clad in swimsuits posing near the Comstock Pool.
Oddly enough this park has also experiences its own brand of vandalism with a rash of dead squirrels stuffed in trash cans, towers made with picnic tables, and the pool was filled with purple dye in 1979. The park hosts the Spokane Symphony on Labor Day, countless picnics and parties, and still attracts a number of children who play sports.ployment rate in Spokane Valley is 5.5% (U.S. avg. is 3.7%). Recent job growth is Negative. Spokane Valley jobs have decreased by 0.6%. More Economy
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