Misplaced Pages

#684315

27-535: Pine Street consists of several discontinuous sections that run between Olive Street and Olive Way to the north and Pike Street to the south. Its westernmost section is one block long and begins at Alaskan Way near Pier 62 on the city's waterfront , a block north of the Seattle Aquarium . It terminates at the former site of the Alaskan Way Viaduct , which led to a public staircase called

54-540: A Speakers' Corner . 5th Avenue and Pike is the heart of the Seattle downtown shopping district, the Pike–Pine retail corridor, which includes Westlake Center and Pacific Place , both of which are on blocks touching Pike Street. Smaller notable retail establishments on the street include historic landmark Coliseum Theater (the city's first movie theater) and Monorail Espresso (the world's first espresso cart, now in

81-469: A 6 percent increase in automobile traffic. The city council endorsed the re-opening plan but placed a ballot measure for the March 14, 1995, election to decide the issue. The ballot measure to re-open Pine Street passed with 60 percent in favor across the city amid a higher than usual voter turnout . The one-block section of Pine Street was reopened on January 6, 1997, with one lane of through traffic and

108-472: A city program begun in 2015. It was temporarily closed to automobile traffic and opened to exclusive pedestrian, business and community uses that included yoga classes, in-street cafe dining, arts and crafts fairs, a fashion show, and other activities. The program was repeated several times in 2016 and 2017. The westernmost block of Pike Street, between 1st and 2nd avenues, was closed for renovations in March 2023. It remained closed to vehicles after construction

135-455: A dam separating Pike Place Market and its 9 million annual visitors from the city's shopping and convention areas". In the 21st century, Second and Third Avenues between the same two streets has a similar reputation. The Seattle Business Association CEO said "drug dealers sort of own the real estate in that part of downtown" and the mayor called it "a dangerous open-air drug market" with 10,000 calls for police response in one year, according to

162-603: A direct line from the fields, around the lake and through Renton. The Pike–Pine corridor on Capitol Hill was once the city's center for automobile sales. After this moved to the suburbs, rents declined and it became a hub for gay culture and Seattle's grunge scene. Gentrification the 21st century brought increasing property values. The Seattle Times said, "For decades, the Pike-Pine corridor between First and Third avenues has been known for run-down buildings, parking lots prone to drug deals and heroin addicts ... effectively

189-450: A downtown revitalization project. Among the changes is a woonerf between 1st and 2nd avenues that would replace the existing cherry trees and widen the sidewalks. In the 21st century the street remains the "epicenter of Seattle's gay culture ". According to one guide, Seattle's gay neighborhood is "centered on Pike Street between Belmont Avenue and 18th Avenue". Pike was an experimental "people street", or temporary pedestrian zone , in

216-482: A mural reading " Black Lives Matter " was painted on a block-long section of Pine Street between 10th and 11th avenues, which was renamed "Black Lives Matter Way" by demonstrators. The protest zone was dismantled on July 1, 2020, and was replaced by a police barricade from Broadway to the East Precinct. Pine Street was reopened to traffic three days later with barriers on surrounding streets. A permanent version of

243-399: A permanent location), both downtown; and Elysian Brewing Company and Elliott Bay Books either on the street or on blocks bounded by the street on Capitol Hill. The original REI store was also on a Capitol Hill block bounded by Pike and Pine until it relocated in the 1990s. The intersection of Pike and Broadway on Capitol Hill is the south end of another business district represented by

270-499: A public staircase and bridge, ultimately terminating at 40th Avenue a block west of Lake Washington Boulevard . Pine Street was named by Arthur A. Denny in his Third Addition plat , which was filed on April 5, 1869. The section between 7th Avenue in Downtown Seattle and Boylston Avenue on Capitol Hill was regraded between 1907 and 1909 to improve its accessibility and increase the value of nearby property. The regrading

297-637: A widened mid-block crosswalk . A three-block section of Pine Street near the Seattle Police Department 's East Precinct on Capitol Hill was closed during the June 2020 George Floyd protests . After several days of demonstrations, the precinct was vacated and the blocked section of Pine Street was occupied by demonstrators as part of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (later Capitol Hill Occupied Protest). On June 11,

SECTION 10

#1732772970685

324-674: Is a major transit corridor in Downtown Seattle that is used by several King County Metro bus routes. Routes 10 and 12 use Pine Street between 2nd Avenue and Capitol Hill. Route 49 runs on Pine Street from 4th Avenue to Broadway, turning north towards the University District . In addition to these routes, the 2nd Avenue to Bellevue Avenue section of Pine Street is used by routes 3 and 11. Sound Transit 's Link light rail system stops under Pine Street at Westlake station , which has several entrances between 3rd and 5th avenues. The Seattle Center Monorail terminates at Westlake Center on

351-631: The Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel . The cut-and-cover tunnel under Pine Street included Westlake and Convention Place stations and cost $ 74.5 million to construct. Excavation was completed in August 1987 and the street was temporarily backfilled to reopen to traffic for the Christmas shopping season at the request of downtown merchants. Pine Street was fully re-opened to traffic on November 1, 1988, coinciding with

378-624: The Broadway Improvement Area, authorized by city ordinance. The Washington State Convention Center straddles Pike Street at 7th Avenue and the two sections are spanned by a skybridge crossing over Pike, the convention center's "signature element" but one that was controversial when built, due to its obstruction of views of Elliott Bay from Capitol Hill, and other architectural and public space considerations. In February 2023, construction of an improved pedestrian and cyclist corridor on Pine and Pike streets began as part of

405-627: The Pine Street Hillclimb, which provided access to Pike Place Market . The main section of Pine Street in Downtown Seattle begins at Pike Place Market, intersecting the eponymous Pike Place and traveling northeast and uphill to 1st Avenue. The bi-directional street then switches to westbound-only traffic with a protected bicycle lane along its south side. Pine Street is the center of Seattle's downtown retail district, passing several major retail buildings from west to east:

432-544: The block. The renovation of the vacated Frederick & Nelson flagship store for Nordstrom in the mid-1990s re-ignited the Pine Street debate. The company made the re-opening of the block a key demand in its renovation proposal, which was of high priority for the city government. A city-commissioned study found that the closed block on Pine Street had made no difference in traffic congestion around Downtown Seattle, due to mitigation measures in other areas to accommodate

459-592: The city and the FBI. The U.S. Department of Justice cited "what has become an open air drug market at Pike/Pine and Third Avenue in downtown Seattle" in 2015. Westlake Park between Pike and Pine Streets is a public square in the downtown retail area. The park and surrounding streets have been the site of the exercise of free speech , marches and protests including the 1999 Seattle WTO protests , Occupy Seattle in 2011, Black Lives Matter annual protests since 2014, and Women's March on Seattle in 2017. The park contains

486-556: The former Bon Marché flagship store between 3rd and 4th avenues; the Westlake Center shopping mall and Westlake Park between 4th and 5th; Nordstrom 's flagship store between 5th and 6th; and Pacific Place mall between 6th and 7th. This section is also home to the Westlake station of the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel , which is served by Link light rail . Pine Street reverts to bi-directional traffic at 8th Avenue on

513-660: The mural was painted in October 2020 with recessed letters. In February 2023, SDOT and the Downtown Seattle Association began construction of a major redesign of Pine and Pike streets in Downtown Seattle. As part of the project, Pine Street will carry one-way westbound traffic over Interstate 5 and the protected bicycle lane on the street will be extended across the overpass. The bicycle lane was extended across Westlake Park in September 2024. Pine Street

540-454: The north side of Pine Street, but had a terminal that spanned the street until 1986. Pike Street Pike Street is an east-west street in Seattle. It extends from Pike Place above Seattle's saltwater waterfront at Elliott Bay through Downtown Seattle , across Capitol Hill to the freshwater shore of Lake Washington at Lake Washington Boulevard . A segment less than a block long exists at Alaskan Way on Elliott Bay, connected to

567-600: The north side of the Washington State Convention Center and continues northeast. The street then passes the Paramount Theatre and the former site of Convention Place station at 9th Avenue and continues to an intersection with Boren Avenue that sits over Interstate 5 . Pine Street turns due east as it enters Capitol Hill , passing apartment buildings and local restaurants as it climbs the hill. The street intersects Broadway on

SECTION 20

#1732772970685

594-630: The opening of Westlake Center and Westlake Park . The mezzanine level of Westlake station, running under two blocks of Pine Street, was opened on August 11, 1989, while the tunnel opened for bus traffic in September 1990. A one-block section of Pine Street between 4th and 5th avenues was converted into a pedestrian zone in July 1989, after the city government began repairing decorative paving stones that were installed at Westlake Park and damaged by heavy traffic. The Seattle City Council had previously voted in 1988 to keep Pine Street open to all traffic, at

621-584: The rest of the street only by the pedestrian Pike Street Hill Climb ; the bottom of the hillclimb under the Alaskan Way Viaduct was the original shoreline of the city before major modification and construction of the Seattle Seawall . It is included in the south-to-north mnemonic "Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest" for the street layout of Seattle . The street was one of the original named streets of Seattle in Arthur A. Denny 's 1869 platting. It

648-723: The south side of the Seattle Central College campus and Cal Anderson Park , becoming East Pine Street. The continuous section of Pine Street ends beyond 16th Avenue, where the road dives southeast to intersect Madison Street . East Pine Street resumes at 17th Avenue adjacent to a trio of television antennas on the north side of Cherry Hill . The street travels east through a predominantly residential area with several small traffic circles , crossing into Madrona after intersecting Martin Luther King Jr. Way . The street ends at 37th Avenue and continues east down

675-504: The urging of the Downtown Seattle Association , but reconsidered a permanent closure after the repairs began. Outgoing mayor Charles Royer ordered that Pine Street remained a permanent pedestrian zone, but councilmember and mayor-elect Norm Rice led a 5–4 majority of the city council in supporting a reopening plan. Rice later endorsed the pedestrian zone and also rejected a proposal to allow trolleybuses to use

702-404: Was also used to bury several sections of old boardwalks that were later unearthed during tunnel construction in 2005 and 2011. A section of East Pine Street was known by various names, including Gould, Mastick, and Warren streets, prior to a 1895 realignment of street names in the city. A downtown section of Pine Street between 4th and 9th avenues was closed on April 27, 1987, for construction of

729-814: Was named by him for John Pike, architect and builder of the Washington Territorial University in what is now the Metropolitan Tract of downtown Seattle. Until the early 20th century Denny Regrade leveled Denny Hill, it was the easiest way from the waterfront to Lake Union, and the main street of the north end of the city (boundaries now defined roughly by Downtown Seattle). In 1872, Seattle's first railroad, Seattle Coal & Transportation Company, followed Pike Street to deliver Newcastle, King County coal to Elliott Bay transshipped via Lake Washington and Lake Union. It lasted until 1878 when Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad built

#684315