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30-478: The street's unusual route through the Denny Triangle follows a former railroad grade through a narrow valley between two hills that were regraded in the early 20th century. Westlake Boulevard was constructed through the valley in 1906, following the railroad and a streetcar line, and was later renamed to Westlake Avenue. The street was modified to run northbound-only from Denny Way to Mercer Street in

60-522: A Volkswagen Beetle in its left hand, created in 1990 and situated under the north end of the Aurora Bridge. The street running under the bridge and ending at the Troll was renamed Troll Avenue N. in 2005. The neighborhood also features various signs giving advice such as "set your watch back five minutes," "set your watch forward five minutes," and "throw your watch away." Other landmarks include

90-489: A mammoth construction project in the first decades of the 20th century known as the Denny Regrade , which is another name for the neighborhood on the regraded area. The name Denny Triangle , referring to the northeastern portion of this regrading project, is a term that has gained currency as this neighborhood has seen increasing development in the first decades of the 21st century. As with most Seattle neighborhoods,

120-624: A planned extension to Ballard is completed in 2035. Westlake Avenue begins at Stewart Street on the north side of McGraw Square , which also serves as the southern terminus of the South Lake Union Streetcar . The square is located adjacent to the Times Square Building and one block north of the Westlake Center and Nordstrom Building . The southernmost block of Westlake Avenue is divided between

150-852: Is situated along the Fremont Cut of the Lake Washington Ship Canal to the north of Queen Anne , the east of Ballard , the south of Phinney Ridge , and the southwest of Wallingford . Its boundaries are not formally fixed, but they can be thought of as consisting of the Ship Canal to the south, Stone Way N. to the east, N. 50th Street to the north, and 8th Avenue N.W. to the west. The neighborhood's main thoroughfares are Fremont and Aurora Avenues N. (north- and southbound) and N. 46th, 45th, 36th, and 34th Streets (east- and westbound). The Aurora Bridge (George Washington Memorial Bridge) carries Aurora Avenue ( State Route 99 ) over

180-760: Is the longest continually operating school in the Seattle school district , having been founded in 1892. Another longstanding institution is the Fremont branch of the Seattle Public Library . An informal library predated the 1891 annexation of Fremont to Seattle, and annexation made it the city's first branch library. The present structure dates from 1921. Besides the B.F. Day playfield, Fremont has three small public parks, Fremont Peak Park just south of N. 45th Street, Ross Park and Playground at 3rd Avenue NW and NW 43rd Street, and A.B. Ernst Park next to

210-499: The Denny family , who were among the city's earliest white inhabitants. The First Avenue regrade was started in 1897 and completed on January 6, 1899. From 1902 to 1911, the hill was sluiced into Elliott Bay by pumping water from Lake Union using hydraulic mining techniques, in a series of regrades along Pike and Pine Streets, Second Avenue, and the massive Denny Regrade No. 1 which regraded everything remaining between Fifth Avenue and

240-681: The Fremont Bridge , opened in September 2016. The cycletrack project cost $ 3.6 million to construct and came after several years of public meetings and negotiations with business owners over the potential loss of public parking spaces. People for Bikes , a bicycle advocacy group, named the Westlake cycletrack the "best new bike lane" of 2016 for the United States. The southern reaches of Westlake have been criticized by cyclists due to

270-619: The Fremont Rocket , a Fairchild C-119 tail boom modified to resemble a missile, and the outdoor sculpture Waiting for the Interurban . Since the early 1970s some Fremont residents have been referring to their neighborhood as "The Center of the Universe" (which also appears on a large "Welcome" sign). An unofficial motto " De Libertas Quirkas " ("Freedom to be Peculiar" in mock Latin ) appears in brochures and websites about

300-471: The 1990s. It remains home to a controversial statue of Vladimir Lenin salvaged from Slovakia by an art lover from Washington state who was teaching in the area at the time. After the 1989 fall of the Communist government, he brought the statue to Fremont with money raised through a mortgage on his house. The Fremont Troll is an 18-foot-tall (5 m) concrete sculpture of a troll crushing

330-588: The Denny Triangle and gives both a less regular shape. They divide Belltown to the southwest from the Denny Triangle to the northeast, with the border running mainly along Fifth Avenue but including a small number of properties along Denny Way west of Fifth Avenue as being in the Denny Triangle. They mark the southwest border of Belltown as a block closer to the water (Elliott Avenue) and draw a more ragged southeast border: west of Fifth Avenue, Belltown extends south only to Lenora Street, while east of Fifth Avenue

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360-467: The Denny Triangle has no formal borders. The Seattle City Clerk's Neighborhood Map Atlas (which is published by the city but does not have official status as defining neighborhoods) defines the Denny Regrade as bounded on the north by Denny Way , on the southwest by Third Avenue, on the southeast by Olive Way, with a small eastern border on Interstate 5 . A 2009 map from northwestplaces.com treats

390-495: The Denny Triangle is bounded in its westernmost block by Virginia Street and (once it crosses Westlake Avenue) by Olive Way, and with an eastern border on the same small piece of Interstate 5 as the City Clerk's map. Seattle is located on an isthmus between Lake Washington on the east and Puget Sound on the west. The north-south orientation of the lake and of the city's many hills is the result of glaciation . The terrain

420-443: The Ship Canal to the top of Queen Anne Hill, and the Fremont Bridge carries Fremont Avenue over the canal to the hill's base. A major shopping district is centered on Fremont Avenue N. just north of the bridge. Fremont is sometimes referred to as "The People's Republic of Fremont" or "The Artists' Republic of Fremont," and was at one time a center of counterculture ; however, the neighborhood has become somewhat gentrified since

450-403: The area. The Fremont Arts Council sponsors several highly attended annual events in Fremont. The Summer Solstice Parade & Pageant has made Fremont famous for its nude Solstice Cyclists . Another event is Troll-a-ween. Also important to Fremont is the large block on Linden Avenue N. that contains the B.F. Day Elementary School and B.F. Day Playground, two separate entities. B.F. Day

480-672: The boundary of South Lake Union . The street continues north through the South Lake Union neighborhood, passing through an office and commercial district with several tech company offices. After crossing Mercer Street at the north end of the neighborhood, the transit-only lanes end and the streetcar's southbound track turns east onto Valley Street near the Allen Institute for Brain Science Building and Google campus. Westlake Avenue turns northwest to follow

510-414: The general vicinity of Westlake Avenue in the Denny Triangle area. The Ballard Link Extension , planned to open in 2035, will include a station at the intersection of Westlake and Denny Way, along with an auxiliary South Lake Union station on Republican Street and an auxiliary Denny Triangle station on 6th Avenue near the current Westlake station . The Westlake cycletrack , connecting Lake Union Park to

540-873: The library. Ernst Park was named for Ambrose Ernst, a Fremont resident. He was known as the "Father of City Playfields". He served on the Board of Park Commissioners from 1906 to 1913 and helped implement Seattle's Olmsted parks plan. The Burke–Gilman Trail passes through Fremont just north of the Lake Washington Ship Canal . The large Gas Works Park is just east of Fremont on the north shore of Lake Union . Theo Chocolate 's factory and store , golf and daywear label Cutter & Buck 's corporate headquarters, and Brooks Sports ' headquarters are located here. Fremont has several breweries including Hale's Ales brewery and Fremont Brewing . The original Redhook breweries were located in Fremont until their closures in 1988 and 2002, respectively. Google opened offices here in 2006, and

570-496: The mid-20th century, and remained one-way until 2007. Westlake Avenue is also served by a variety of public transit routes, including the South Lake Union Streetcar and RapidRide C Line . In 2016, a section of the street in South Lake Union received transit-only lanes in March 2016 and a cycletrack was installed along the west side of Lake Union. A Link light rail station is planned to be built at Westlake and Denny Way when

600-501: The parent company of Geocaching.com is headquartered in Fremont. A growing number of technology companies have offices in Fremont, including Adobe Systems , the Allen Institute for Brain Science , SDL PLC , Groundspeak , Impinj , Sporcle , and Tableau Software . Most of these offices are along the Lake Washington Ship Canal . The neighborhood is home to a number of nonprofit organizations, including Literacy Source and Provail,

630-406: The presence of streetcar tracks that pose a danger to thinner bicycle tires. The entire street is in Seattle , King County . Denny Triangle, Seattle The Denny Triangle is a neighborhood in Seattle , Washington , United States, that stretches north of Downtown Seattle to the grounds of Seattle Center . Its generally flat terrain was originally a steep hill, taken down as part of

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660-584: The shore of Lake Union near Lake Union Park and the Museum of History and Industry . The east side of the street is used as a parking lot with a protected cycletrack and walking trail that runs along the side of the lake and its marinas . The street continues north through the Westlake neighborhood, parallel to Aurora and Dexter avenues to the west, and crosses under a pedestrian suspension bridge at Galer Street. Westlake gradually turns northwest along

690-591: The side of a greenbelt and crosses under the Aurora Bridge before terminating at an intersection with Dexter Avenue, Nickerson Street, and Fremont Avenue on the south side of the Fremont Bridge . Nickerson travels west along the Lake Washington Ship Canal to the Seattle Pacific University campus in northern Queen Anne , while Fremont Avenue crosses the bridge into Fremont and continues north to Woodland Park Zoo . A military road

720-832: The streetcar tracks and a southbound-only street that connects to a porte-cochère for the Westin Seattle hotel complex. Westlake gains a northbound lane after crossing 6th Avenue and continues northwest across the Denny Triangle street grid, forming several triangular blocks. The street passes the east side of the Amazon headquarters campus, including Doppler and the Amazon Spheres , and several high-rise residential buildings. A set of curbside transit-only lanes begin at Virginia Street and include several streetcar stops that are shared with buses. Westlake Avenue turns due north at an intersection with Denny Way , which marks

750-531: The term "Denny Regrade" as synonymous with Belltown and shows both names as referring to a triangle bounded on the north by Denny Way, on the southwest by Western Avenue (two blocks inland of the Central Waterfront ), and on the southeast by Stewart Street; the southern tip of this triangle falls in the northern part of Pike Place Market . A map on downtownseattle.com agrees on the northern boundary at Denny Way, but splits this area into "Belltown" and

780-529: The valley on the east side of Denny Hill , following the modern-day route of Westlake Avenue. The railroad was abandoned five years later and replaced in 1890 with a streetcar line that was built in less than a week by the Seattle Electric Railway and Power Company . Between Depot Street (now Denny Way ) and the southern shore of Lake Union, the streetcar followed Rollin Avenue. The street

810-525: The waterfront. In 1929–30, Denny Regrade No. 2 removed the final pieces of the hill east of Fifth Avenue using steam shovels . Fremont, Seattle Fremont is a neighborhood in the North Central District of Seattle , Washington , United States. Originally a separate city, it was annexed to Seattle in 1891. It is named after Fremont, Nebraska , the hometown of two of its founders: Luther H. Griffith and Edward Blewett . Fremont

840-422: Was built along the west side of Lake Union in the early 1860s to connect the lake to the modern settlement of Seattle, following the general path of an older trail used by Native Americans. Lake Union became a landing point for coal shipments that were hauled by boat and wagon from modern-day Newcastle and Renton and were bound for ships on Elliott Bay . A narrow gauge railroad was constructed in 1872 through

870-881: Was constructed in 1907 and completed in November of that year. Westlake Avenue is served by the South Lake Union Streetcar , which began operating in 2007, and several bus routes run by King County Metro . Following the addition of transit-only lanes in March 2016, the RapidRide C Line and Metro Route 40 were moved onto the Westlake Avenue corridor. The C Line connects South Lake Union to West Seattle , while Route 40 continues north on Westlake from Downtown Seattle to Fremont, Ballard , and Northgate . In 2018, Amazon funded 22 additional weekday trips on Route 40 to relieve crowding and improve frequencies during rush hour. Sound Transit plans to build two light rail stations in

900-499: Was first gouged by south-moving glaciers, and when they retreated, was marked by mounds of rock debris left in their wake. Denny and Queen Anne Hills are two of those north of what is now downtown Seattle. Denny Hill was removed in a series of regrades beginning in 1898 and ending in 1930. The Denny Regrade project was the removal of Denny Hill, one of the proverbial seven hills of Seattle . It ran east from First Avenue between Pike Street and Denny Way. Hill and street were named after

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