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60-558: The official boundaries of the City of Seattle Urban Center are Denny Way on the south, beyond which is Denny Triangle ; Interstate 5 on the east, beyond which is Capitol Hill ; Aurora Avenue N. ( State Route 99 ) and 7th Avenue N. on the west, beyond which is Lower Queen Anne ; and Galer Street, Lake Union, and E. Newton Place on the north, beyond which are Westlake and Eastlake , but like most Seattle neighborhoods, its precise boundaries are indeterminate. In particular Cornish College of

120-556: A biotechnology hub in South Lake Union has been somewhat controversial, as it is seen by some as an example of influential private companies receiving benefits from the city. There were early worries that formerly affordable housing would be destroyed and not replaced. The non-profit Low-Income Housing Institute (LIHI) now has 5 buildings in the Cascade Neighborhood and Denny Triangle. Vulcan Real Estate opened

180-432: A 2016 plan to add bus lanes and queue jumps along part of Denny Way in South Lake Union. The bus lanes are scheduled to be added to Denny Way in late August 2018. The route crosses two Link light rail stations on north–south lines: Capitol Hill station at Broadway, opened in 2016, and a future light rail station at Westlake Avenue that is planned to open in 2035. Transit advocates have also considered Denny Way as

240-480: A bag of 60 letters from the Canadian post office for delivery in the U.S. In 1921, Boeing married Bertha Marie Potter Paschall (1891–1977). She had previously been married to Nathaniel Paschall, a real estate broker with whom she had two sons, Nathaniel "Nat" Paschall Jr. and Cranston Paschall. The couple had a son of their own, William E. Boeing Jr. (1922–2015). The stepsons went into aviation manufacturing as

300-481: A career. Nat Paschall was a sales manager for competitor Douglas Aircraft , which later became McDonnell Douglas . Bill Jr. became a private pilot and industrial real estate developer. Bertha Boeing was the daughter of Howard Cranston Potter and Alice Kershaw Potter. Through her father, she was a descendant of the founders of Alex. Brown & Sons merchant bankers Alexander Brown, James Brown, and Brown's son-in-law and partner Howard Potter ; and through her mother,

360-616: A major manufacturer in a fragmented industry, did not become successful until the beginning of World War II . Between 1935 and 1944, William Boeing and his wife Bertha set aside a large tract of land north of the Seattle city limits for subdivision, including the future communities of Richmond Beach, Richmond Heights, Innis Arden, Blue Ridge, and Shoreview. The Boeings placed racially restrictive covenants on their land to enforce segregation, forbidding properties from being "sold, conveyed, rented, or leased in whole or in part to any person not of

420-534: A minor neighborhood street, ending near Madrona Park on Lake Washington . Denny Way begins as an offshoot of Western Avenue, two blocks uphill from Myrtle Edwards Park on the Elliott Bay waterfront and near the former Seattle Post-Intelligencer offices. The street travels east through the dense commercial–residential district of Lower Queen Anne and passes the Seattle Center campus, including

480-727: A neighborhood distinct from the rest of South Lake Union, especially after construction of Interstate 5 cut it off from Capitol Hill . When the Lake Washington Ship Canal opened in 1917, the locks at Ballard kept Lake Union at its historic level, while the canal gave it a water connection both to Lake Washington and to Puget Sound , an arm of the Pacific Ocean . This was a further boon to industrial and commercial development. Many timber-framed buildings survive from this era, with masonry exterior walls of brick or, for some commercial buildings, terracotta . For

540-655: A potential cross-town light rail corridor, which was not considered in the Sound Transit 3 plan. In the 2010s, transit advocates also suggested that Denny Way could be served by an aerial tramway system, with stops between the Olympic Sculpture Park and Capitol Hill station. The entire highway is in Seattle , King County . William Edward Boeing William Edward Boeing ( / ˈ b oʊ ɪ ŋ / ; October 1, 1881 – September 28, 1956)

600-486: A sawmill (the city's largest) on the south shore of the lake, near what is now the corner of Mercer and Westlake; Denny bought it in 1884, renaming it the Western Mill. He cleared the land along the south shore of the lake and, in 1885, cut a weir from Portage Bay at the northeast corner of the lake to Lake Washington, which allowed logs to be floated to Lake Union, so that the entire area of the larger Lake Washington

660-682: A short time, it bought a host of small airlines, merging them with Boeing's pioneering airline under a holding company, United Air Lines . In 1934, the United States government accused William Boeing of monopolistic practices . The same year, the Air Mail Act forced airplane companies to separate flight operations from development and manufacturing. William Boeing divested himself of ownership as his holding company broke up into three separate entities: He began investing most of his time in his horses in 1937. Boeing Airplane Company, though

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720-603: A time, the Cascade Neighborhood held numerous automobile dealerships; the surviving Ford McKay and Pacific McKay buildings are examples. Most of the city's large laundries were in the area, especially in Cascade although the large, surviving Troy Laundry Building (1927) is immediately west of Fairview Avenue E. These were soon joined by the Seattle Times Building (1930). In the early 1990s, The Seattle Times columnist John Hinterberger proposed redeveloping

780-556: A two-way, six-lane, tree-lined boulevard, with Valley Street becoming a two-way, pedestrian friendly road. Lake Union is known in Chinook Jargon as Tenass Chuck ("little water", as against Lake Washington , Hyas Chuck , "big water"). It is similarly known in Duwamish as meman hartshu , "little lake". When white pioneers arrived in the 1850s, Native Americans —probably Duwamish or Southern Coast Salish —were encamped near

840-544: A windstorm knocked over a tree, destroying a longhouse in what is now Cascade. Pioneer David Denny (of the Denny Party ) staked a claim in 1853. Denny's claim ran from South Lake Union (where the lake extended farther to the south and west than it does today) south to what is now Denny Way and west to include the area that is now the Seattle Center grounds. In 1882, the Lake Union and Lumber Company established

900-556: Is the Brotman Building (the former home of Washington Natural Gas, when it was known as the "Blue Flame building") at 815 Mercer St, which houses 4 floors of biotechnology and medical research laboratories. Among the varied research areas are four Centers, focused on Allergy & Inflammation, Cardiovascular Biology & Regenerative Medicine, Lung Biology and Translational Medicine in Women's Health. The plan for development of

960-1055: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1909, he saw a piloted flying machine for the first time and became fascinated with aircraft . In 1910, at the Dominguez Flying Meet , Boeing asked every pilot foreign and domestic if he could go for an airplane ride and was repeatedly denied except for French aviator Louis Paulhan . Boeing waited and Paulhan finished the meet and left, never giving Boeing his ride. Boeing took flying lessons at Glenn L. Martin Flying School in Los Angeles and purchased one of Martin's planes. Martin pilot James Floyd Smith traveled to Seattle to assemble Boeing's new Martin TA hydroaeroplane and continue to teach its owner to fly. Huge crates arrived by train and Smith assembled

1020-692: The Kaiser Permanente (formerly Group Health ) campus at 15th Avenue East, where it shifts to the south. The street begins its descent into the Madison Valley and turns southeast to intersect Madison Street at 22nd Avenue. A second section of the street begins one block northeast at Madison and 23rd Avenue , running east to the Harrison Ridge Greenbelt at 32nd Avenue, where it shifts south to become part of Madrona Drive. The street continues southeast to Madrona Park on

1080-458: The Museum of History & Industry relocated from Seattle's Montlake neighborhood to the former Naval Reserve Training Center, or "Armory." South Lake Union is also home to Denny Park , the oldest park in the city. Due to recent development plans by Paul Allen 's Vulcan Inc. , as well as other prominent developers, South Lake Union is becoming a hub for life science organizations. Some in

1140-718: The Pacific Northwest . He purchased extensive timberland around Grays Harbor on the Olympic Peninsula and bought into lumber operations. He prospered in the business due to a nationwide construction boom. He was successful in the venture, in part by shipping lumber to the East Coast via the then-new Panama Canal , generating funds that he would later apply to a very different business. While president of Greenwood Timber Company, Boeing, who had experimented with boat design, traveled to Seattle . During

1200-869: The Pacific Science Center and Space Needle . At 5th Avenue, adjacent to Tilikum Place and the KOMO-TV headquarters at KOMO Plaza , Denny Way passes under the Seattle Center Monorail and enters the South Lake Union neighborhood. The street crosses over what was once the north portal of the Battery Street Tunnel , a tunnel taken out of service in January 2019. Denny Way continues east, downhill along Denny Park to an intersection with Westlake Avenue at

1260-785: The United States in 1868 and initially worked as a laborer. His move to the United States was disliked by his father and he received no financial support. He later made a fortune from North Woods timber lands and iron ore mineral rights on the Mesabi Range of Minnesota , north of Lake Superior . In 1890, when William was eight, his father died of influenza and his mother soon moved to Europe . Marie enrolled William Jr. and his sister at schools in Switzerland . William attended school in Vevey , Switzerland , and returned to

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1320-508: The White or Caucasian race ." Non-whites could occupy a property on the land only if they were employed as a domestic servant "by a person of the White or Caucasian race." He spent the remainder of his life in property development and thoroughbred horse breeding . Concerned about the possibility of World War II battles in the Pacific Northwest , he purchased a 650-acre (260 ha) farm in

1380-516: The landmark New Richmond Laundry Building ), the headquarters of PEMCO , the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the headquarters of Zymogenetics (in the old City Light Steam Plant). Elsewhere in South Lake Union the picture is similar. Quite a few older buildings survive, but few retain their historic uses. In April 2008, the new Lake Union Park opened to the public with a pedestrian bridge across

1440-455: The town plat of Seattle began with a stake driven at what is now the west end of Denny Way. It also formed the boundary of pioneer David Denny 's 1869 plat of "North Seattle", in what is now Lower Queen Anne. Denny initially named the road "Depot Street", as part of an unsuccessful attempt to build a major train terminal at its western end. The city government completed construction of a sewage tunnel under Depot Street in 1894, serving as

1500-406: The 1910s and 1920s. During excavation of Interstate 5 from 1962 to 1964, Denny Way was periodically closed or rerouted onto temporary roads or bridges built atop fill . The freeway overpass was opened to traffic on October 16, 1963, expanding the street to four lanes and adding several traffic signals. A section of Denny Way between Broadway and Nagle Place was closed for the construction of

1560-716: The Arts and Vulcan Inc. properties such as 2200 and 2201 Westlake are officially in Denny Triangle for city planning and zoning purposes but often referred to as South Lake Union. The portion of South Lake Union east of Fairview Avenue N. is historically known as Cascade . Historic structures continue to stand in the Cascade neighborhood today. Its main thoroughfares are Valley and Mercer Streets (east- and westbound) and Dexter, 9th, Westlake, and Fairview Avenues N. and Eastlake Avenue E. (north- and southbound). The city addressed transportation issues by changing Mercer Street into

1620-661: The Arts. It sits just south of Denny Way near the William Volker Building (see list above, which is also part of Cornish. Hence, it is officially just outside South Lake Union. Denny Way 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 . The street continues east through Capitol Hill to Madrona as

1680-567: The Capitol Hill light rail station and was redeveloped into a woonerf . It was renamed Barbara Bailey Way in 2019 to honor a local businesswoman and LGBTQ activist. Notable structures on Denny Way include the Denny Substation ; Cornish College of the Arts ; the Seattle Center complex, site of the 1962 World's Fair ; and Denny Park , Seattle's first public park. The park and the street are both named for David Denny , one of

1740-517: The Cascade Neighborhood, and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center . In early Seattle history, South Lake Union had housing for both workers and owners of mills on Lake Union, including David Denny 's residence at Dexter Ave N and Republican St. By the 1960s, landowners including the Seattle Times demolished acres of housing for parking lots, leaving the Cascade Neighborhood as the only district with many residential options. As early as 1972,

1800-640: The US for a year of prep school at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire . William Boeing's mother remarried in 1898 and moved to Virginia. He enrolled at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut in 1898, studying in the engineering department of the Sheffield Scientific School , but dropped out in 1903 to go into the lumber business. Boeing moved to Hoquiam, Washington , in

1860-613: The aircraft business, using an old boat works on the Duwamish River near Seattle for his factory. In 1916, Boeing went into business with George Conrad Westervelt as "B & W" and founded Pacific Aero Products Co. It was headquartered in the former Heath shipyard. The company's first plane was the Boeing Model 1 (B & W Seaplane). When America entered the First World War on April 8, 1917, Boeing changed

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1920-682: The area include: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center , the Allen Institute for Brain Science , the Allen Institute for Cell Science , Zymogenetics , Battelle , Seattle Biomedical Research Institute , Seattle Children's Hospital , PATH , Rosetta (now part of Merck & Co. ), Bio-Rad , and University of Washington Medicine . The South Lake Union Campus of the University of Washington School of Medicine now includes 1250 people (researchers and staff) in four buildings. The oldest

1980-543: The area into a large green space something like New York's Central Park , loosely based on parts of Virgil Bogue 's 1911 Bogue Plan. This plan became known as the Seattle Commons and evolved to include mixed-income housing , retail, and commercial space on the park edges. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen donated $ 20 million to buy property for the Seattle Commons, which reverted to his ownership after

2040-474: The city's current official definition of that neighborhood) see Cascade, Seattle . With the exception of the Pacific McKay and Ford McKay buildings and the boats at Northwest Seaport , all of these landmarks fall within the maximum extent of Cascade, as the neighborhood was understood in the early 20th century. Raisbeck Performance Hall, a former Sons of Norway hall, is now part of Cornish College of

2100-480: The city's first settlers, who owned much of the land surrounding what is now Seattle Center. Between Westlake Avenue and I-5, Denny Way is zoned for high-rise residential buildings and is expected to be redeveloped into a " street canyon " in the late 2010s and early 2020s. Denny Way is primarily served by King County Metro route 8, a major cross-town bus route that debuted in 1995. The bus route suffers from traffic congestion and schedule unreliability, leading to

2160-594: The countryside east of Seattle, which he dubbed "Aldarra." The estate remained in the family until most of the land was developed into a golf course residential community in 2001. Several acres, however, remained in the family, including the Boeing's own and two smaller houses. His primary residence for most of his life, however, was a mansion in The Highlands community close to Seattle; the William E. Boeing House

2220-511: The diagonal-running Olive Way, Denny Way narrows into a two-lane residential street and shifts slightly north while passing several mid-rise apartment buildings. At Broadway , Denny Way becomes a westbound-only woonerf named Barbara Bailey Way, with drop-off lanes serving the adjacent Capitol Hill light rail station , whose south entrance is located on the south side of the street. Past Cal Anderson Park , East Denny Way regains its name and becomes bi-directional again and travels uphill towards

2280-422: The downtown docks by wagon, then from 1872 to about 1877 on a narrow-gauge railroad that followed the route of present-day Westlake Avenue to Pike Street. The railroad, however, was abandoned, and the route degenerated back to a wagon trail. After David Denny's bankruptcy 1895, this mill operated until the 1920s under new ownership of Brace / Hergert Mill Company. In 1909 Brace & Hergert extended their mill into

2340-615: The end of 2008. While most of the additional housing is market-rate, community affordable housing advocates succeeded in requiring a significant number of units for "the [formerly] homeless, low-income and mentally ill." Jones Soda Company used to have its headquarters in South Lake Union. Amazon has over 25 buildings and thousands of employees in its SLU campus with more in the adjacent Denny Triangle neighborhood. In October 2012, Amazon announced it would spend over $ 1 billion to purchase its South Lake Union corporate headquarters from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's investment firm. Based on

2400-692: The first Ford Model T assembly plant west of the Mississippi River (1914). Both of these buildings now have landmark status. The former steam plant now houses Zymogenetics and the former Ford building is used for rental storage space. Meanwhile, the Northern Pacific Railway ran a railroad line around Lake Union and down Terry Avenue, where a freight station opened in 1913. With industrial and commercial growth, more residential centers sprang up to house company employees and other residents. Preeminent among these residential centers

2460-432: The granddaughter of Charles James Kershaw and Mary Leavenworth Kershaw (a descendant of Henry Leavenworth ). In 1929, Boeing joined with Frederick Rentschler of Pratt & Whitney to form United Aircraft and Transport Corporation , which was established as a holding company. The new grouping was a vertically integrated company with interests in all aspects of aviation , intending to serve all aviation markets. In

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2520-582: The heart of South Lake Union. The intersection includes a set of small plazas on its southwest and southeast sides that double as Seattle Streetcar stops. From Westlake, Denny Way climbs a steep grade towards the Cascade neighborhood and passes the headquarters of The Seattle Times , which features a mounted news ticker . The street passes the Denny Substation and intersects onramps and offramps that connect to Interstate 5 , which Denny Way then crosses to reach Capitol Hill . After an intersection with

2580-505: The lake building a peninsula, now known as Lake Union Park. The last remaining portion of the mill business was Brace Lumber Company which operated from 1925 to 1988, the end of the mill era. The area also saw a growth in manufacturing toward the turn of the century. Cabinetry and furniture led the way in the 1890s, followed by shipbuilding, Bill Boeing 's first airplane factory, manufacturing seaplanes and, in Cascade, Seattle City Light's Hydro House (1912) and Lake Union Steam Plant (1914) and

2640-408: The main outflow for northern Seattle. The street was renamed to Denny Way in 1895, as part of a city-wide name change to harmonize the names of grid-defining streets; other boundary streets to the east of downtown, including Decatur and Hawthorne avenues, were also merged into the new Denny Way. The street originally ran across a section of Denny Hill , which was regraded by the city government in

2700-461: The mayor's "In-City Living Task Force" proposed the creation of 50,000 housing units in high-rise apartments in South Lake Union and Belltown . Since an economic redevelopment was initiated by the City Council in 2003, South Lake Union has seen a marked increase in housing with 1,850 new units, or 2,000,000 square feet (190,000 m) of housing, either completed or scheduled to be completed by

2760-516: The name to Boeing Airplane Company and obtained orders from the US Navy for 50 planes. At the end of the war, Boeing concentrated on commercial aircraft to service airmail contracts. On March 3, 1919, Willam Boeing partnered with Eddie Hubbard to make the first delivery of international airmail to the United States. They flew a Boeing C-700 seaplane for the demonstration trip from Vancouver , British Columbia , to Seattle's Lake Union , carrying

2820-608: The northern boundary of the Belltown street grid, which is oriented towards a section of Elliott Bay, 49 degrees from true north. As a result, the street has several triangular blocks and irregular intersections on its south side, including Tilikum Place park. Denny Way is one of the busiest streets in Seattle, with an average weekday traffic volume of 39,100 vehicles in Lower Queen Anne. Its least-traveled section, near Madrona Drive, carried only 2,500 vehicles on an average weekday in 2016. The original 1852 survey for

2880-554: The plane in a tent hangar erected on the shore of Lake Union. Boeing's test pilot, Herb Munter, soon damaged the plane. When he was told by Martin that replacement parts would not be available for months, Boeing told his friend, Commander George Conrad Westervelt of the US Navy, "We could build a better plane ourselves and build it faster." Westervelt agreed. They soon built and flew the B & W Seaplane , an amphibian biplane that had outstanding performance. Boeing decided to go into

2940-554: The proposal was defeated by public votes in 1995 and 1996. Only a few of the older residential and light industrial structures of historic Cascade Neighborhood retain their original uses today; the historic Immanuel Lutheran Church and Saint Spiridon Orthodox Cathedral remain. Within the boundaries of Cascade Neighborhood as of 2008 are the REI flagship store, NBBJ architects (in the Alley24 office and apartment development built around

3000-420: The southwest corner of the lake and along a stream near the present-day corner of 8th and Thomas; another stream ran near Boren Avenue. There was a trail from the south end of the lake to Elliott Bay . At the time, there were deer and elk in the area; natives also ate fish, clams, root vegetables, camas , bracken , wapato and berries. Significant native settlement in South Lake Union lasted until 1875, when

3060-598: The steamer Virginia V , the lightship Swiftsure , the tug Arthur Foss , the fireboat Duwamish , and the salmon troller Twilight . The schooner Wawona was also moored nearby at Northwest Seaport until it was dismantled in 2009. Several smaller historic boats are just to the east at the Center for Wooden Boats . In December 2007, Amazon announced it would be consolidating its Seattle offices in South Lake Union; occupancy began in 2010. Opened in December 2012,

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3120-420: The value of the deal, Amazon would pay the highest ever price for an office building over 100,000 square feet in Seattle at around $ 644 per square foot, more than double the then-current average rate of $ 308 per square foot for the city's office space, according to Real Capital Analytics. In the 2010s, both Google and Facebook opened offices in South Lake Union. For landmarks and historic sites in Cascade (using

3180-502: The western shore of Lake Washington . Sections of East Denny Way are among the steepest blocks in Seattle and are popular with street sledders during snowstorms. From Downtown Seattle to Olive Way on Capitol Hill, Denny Way is classified as a major arterial street and as part of the National Highway System , a network of roads identified as important to the national economy, defense, and mobility. It also forms

3240-485: The western waterway, a walkway along the waterfront, 1.6 acres (6,500 m) of green space, landscaping and much more. The 12-acre (49,000 m) park was completed in 2010. The historic ships wharf provides long-term moorage for historic vessels; and the Maritime Heritage Center will provide an array of cultural, educational, and recreational activities. Vessels currently moored at the wharf include

3300-537: The work-force Borealis Apartments on May 20, 2008. Alley24 has 20% of its units set aside for those earning less than 60% of the median income. Additionally, Seattle's Office of Housing began construction of the affordable Cascade Senior Housing in July 2008. In 2007, the South Lake Union Streetcar began operation, connecting Westlake Center to the south end of Lake Union at Yale Avenue N., near

3360-612: Was Cascade. At the center of the community established by the Russians, Swedes, Norwegians, and Greeks who settled there in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was the Cascade School (built 1894; demolished after the 1949 Olympia earthquake ), a public elementary school from which the neighborhood took its name. From the 1930s, South Lake Union became less residential, evolving into an area of small business, warehouses and auto-oriented services. Cascade slowly lost its identity as

3420-406: Was a catchment for his mill. Denny operated the Western Mill until 1895, and many of his employees settled nearby, some with families. During this time other mills opened in the area. In addition, the lake became a link in the transport of coal , which came from near Issaquah via Lake Washington, wagon to Portage Bay and thence to Lake Union. At first, coal was transported from South Lake Union to

3480-528: Was an American aviation pioneer. He founded the Pacific Airplane Company in 1916, which was renamed to Boeing a year later. The company is now the largest exporter in the United States by dollar value and among the largest aerospace manufacturers in the world. Boeing's first design was the Boeing Model 1 (or B & W Seaplane), which first flew in June 1916, a month before the company

3540-760: Was founded. He also helped create the United Aircraft and Transport Corporation in 1929 and served as its chairman until its forced breakup in 1934. He received the Daniel Guggenheim Medal in 1934 and was posthumously inducted in to the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1966, ten years after his death. William Boeing was born in Detroit, Michigan , to Marie M. Ortmann, from Vienna, Austria , and Wilhelm Böing (1846–1890) from Hohenlimburg, Germany . Wilhelm Böing emigrated to

3600-663: Was later listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Boeing Creek running near this property bears his name. On May 14, 1954, William Boeing and his wife Bertha went back to the Boeing Airplane Company to participate in the rollout ceremony for the Boeing 367-80 prototype. William Boeing died on September 28, 1956, at the age of 74. His ashes were scattered off the coast of British Columbia , where he spent much of his time sailing . He

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