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Waterfront Fountain was an outdoor 1974 fountain and sculpture by James FitzGerald and Margaret Tomkins, installed along Alaskan Way in Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The fountain was located adjacent to the Seattle Aquarium at Waterfront Park on Pier 58.
The Seattle Aquarium is a public aquarium in Seattle, Washington, United States, located on Pier 59 on the Elliott Bay waterfront. The aquarium opened in 1977 and is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA). The aquarium consists of three buildings. Its original buildings at Pier 59 and Pier 60 have six major exhibits.
A 1967 water pollution study with data for 1963 refers to "Puget Sound Bridge & Drydock Co., Plant No. 1", with four piers, in what appears to be a list going counterclockwise around Harbor Island. [136] The City of Seattle Harbor Department Map of Central Waterfront District, February 1918, shows six piers. [95] 1945 US Navy aerial survey ...
Harbor Steps has a large outdoor staircase, as well as condominiums, hotels, offices, and retail spaces. [5] The stairway connects First Avenue and Western Avenue, and has two fountains and plants. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] A pedestrian-only section of Post Alley runs through the center of the Steps, [ 8 ] which have been described as "Seattle's version of ...
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 ...
The Central Waterfront is a neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. It is the most urbanized portion of the Elliott Bay shore. It runs from the Pioneer Square shore roughly northwest past Downtown Seattle and Belltown, ending at the Broad Street site of the Olympic Sculpture Park. The Central Waterfront was once the hub of Seattle's maritime activity.
It was founded on the harbor of Elliott Bay, home to the Port of Seattle—in 2002, the 9th busiest port in the United States by TEUs of container traffic and the 46th busiest in the world. [2] [3] Seattle is divided in half by the Lake Washington Ship Canal, which connects Lake Washington to Puget Sound.
The Norton Building has housed multiple tenants including LMN Architects, the Puget Sound Business Journal, [7] and Pacific Northern Airlines. [8] The building's 17th floor was also home to the member-only Harbor Club, which peaked at 1,000 members in the 1990s and closed on December 31, 2015. [9]