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Map of Downtown Seattle, WA. This map of Seattle,_WA_-_Downtown was created from OpenStreetMap project data, collected by the community. This map may be incomplete, and may contain errors.
A cable car once operated on Madison Street from downtown Seattle to the ferry terminal at Madison Park, and the ferry route constituted an almost linear continuation of the street across the lake. Other historical cable cars ran along Yesler Way, Jackson Street, Queen Anne Avenue—"The Counterbalance", and 1st Avenue-2nd Avenue). [ 7 ]
Downtown Seattle is the largest employment center in the Puget Sound region, with an estimated employee population of 243,995 in 2013, accounting for half of the city's jobs and 21 percent of King County jobs. [12] Several Fortune 500 companies headquartered in Downtown Seattle include Amazon, Nordstrom, and Expeditors International. [13]
1st Avenue is a major street in Seattle, Washington, United States. It traverses Downtown Seattle, including Pioneer Square and Belltown, as well as the adjacent neighborhoods of SoDo and Lower Queen Anne. Numerous landmarks including parks, museums, and historic buildings are located along the street, including Pike Place Market. [1]
Denny Way is an east–west arterial street in downtown Seattle, Washington, United States.It forms the northern end of the Belltown street grid as well as the boundaries of Belltown, Lower Queen Anne, South Lake Union, Denny Triangle, and Cascade.
This 1909 map of Seattle shows many neighborhood names that remain in common use today—for example, Ballard, Fremont, Queen Anne Hill, Capitol Hill, West Seattle, and Beacon Hill—but also many that have fallen out of use—for example, "Ross" and "Edgewater" on either side of Fremont, "Brooklyn" for today's University District, and "Renton Hill" near the confluence of Capitol Hill, First ...
The Metropolitan Tract is an area of land in downtown Seattle owned by the University of Washington. [1] Originally covering 10 acres (40,000 m 2 ), the 1962 purchase of land for a garage for the Olympic Hotel [ 2 ] expanded the plot to 11 acres (45,000 m 2 ).
East–west streets in Seattle south of Yesler Way are prefixed "South"; [3] avenues are suffixed with "South" as they cross Yesler Way. [4] The street originates at Alaskan Way on the downtown Seattle waterfront and runs east through Yesler Terrace , the Central District , and Leschi to just east of 32nd Avenue, where the arterial route ...