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Waterfront Park is a public park on the Central Waterfront, Downtown, Seattle, Washington, USA. Designed by the Bumgardner Partnership and consultants, it was constructed on the site of the former Schwabacher Wharf ( Pier 58 ).
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.
First slab of Seattle Central Waterfront seawall being placed, 1934 Seawall inspection, 1954 Seawall replacement, 2015. Pier 54 at left.. The seawall was built to provide level access to Seattle's piers and supports the Alaskan Way Viaduct and Alaskan Way itself, which is a surface street.
Harbor Steps (sometimes called Harbor Steps Park) [1] is a mixed-use development and public space connecting Seattle's Central Waterfront and downtown, in the U.S. state of Washington. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
The Alaskan Way Viaduct ("the viaduct" for short) [1] [2] [3] was an elevated freeway in Seattle, Washington, United States, that carried a section of State Route 99 (SR 99). The double-decked freeway ran north–south along the city's waterfront for 2.2 miles (3.5 km), east of Alaskan Way and Elliott Bay, and traveled between the West Seattle Freeway in SoDo and the Battery Street Tunnel in ...
The original city streetcar system in Seattle ceased operations in April 1941 and was replaced with a network of electric trolleybuses and motor buses. City councilman George Benson first proposed the idea of building a streetcar line along the Seattle waterfront in 1974, a year after he was elected to the council, to be operational in time for the national Bicentennial on July 4, 1976.
FitzGerald created several fountains for parks around the Seattle area, including one at the Seattle Center for the Century 21 Exposition in 1962. He was commissioned to design a fountain for the new Waterfront Park, but died in 1973 before work was finalized. [5] The project had been funded by a $75,000 donation from Helen Martha Schiff. [6]
During the 1970s and 1980s, he oversaw a number of mixed-use developments near the Seattle Waterfront, including Waterfront Park (built 1974), Market Place North (built 1979–1982), Waterfront Place (1979–1984), the Watermark Tower (1983), and the conversion of the Globe Building into the Alexis Hotel (1982).
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