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Elliott Bay Park along the waterfront, downtown Seattle. Two marinas are in Elliott Bay. The larger of them is the privately owned Elliott Bay Marina, in the Magnolia/Interbay neighborhoods at Smith Cove, with 1,200 slips. [19] [20] Bell Harbor Marina, operated by the Port of Seattle, is in the Central Waterfront along Belltown. Up to 70 ...
Arthur Denny settled at Elliott Bay and, along with his rival D.S. "Doc" Maynard, led the development of Seattle. Terry and Low could not attract settlers to their townsite and people facetiously began calling the smaller village "New York Alki" or "New York bye and bye" in Chinook Jargon. [5]
The Denny Party landed at Alki Point November 13, 1851, and platted a settlement of six blocks of eight lots, calling the settlement "New York Alki". However, the next April, Arthur A. Denny abandoned the site at Alki for a better-situated site on the east shore of Elliott Bay, just north of the plat of David Swinson "Doc" Maynard.
The Elliott Bay Water Taxi, started its run from Downtown to West Seattle in 1997. [98] In April 2009, the route was renamed from the Elliott Bay Water Taxi to the King County Water Taxi, [99] and dock was upgraded. [98] 8 Seattle Yacht Club (Yacht Anchorage [100] [95]) 1892 [101] 1918 [101] float & boathouse; clubhouse on shore [101]
The new Port of Seattle (formed 1911) built Fishermen's Terminal about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) north on Salmon Bay and paid the Great Northern US$150,000 for the docks and approximately 20 acres (8.1 ha) of land at Smith's Cove. At Smith's Cove they developed two new coal and lumber piers, Pier 40 and 41 (renumbered in 1941 as Piers 90 and 91).
The Globe Building in Pioneer Square, location of the Elliott Bay Book Company from 1973 to 2010. Elliott Bay Book Company was established by Walter and Maggie Carr and first opened on June 29, 1973. [9] [11] The bookstore was located in a 1,600-square-foot room of the Globe Building at 310 First Avenue South in the Pioneer Square neighborhood ...
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The Alaskan Way Seawall is a seawall which runs for approximately 7,166 feet (2,184 m) along the Elliott Bay waterfront southwest of downtown Seattle from Bay Street to S. Washington Street. [1] The seawall was being rebuilt in the 2010s as part of a waterfront redevelopment megaproject estimated to cost over $1 billion.