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27-687: The site, between 5th and 6th avenues and bound to the north by Pike Street and south by Union Street, was home to the Music Box Theatre , the Windsor Hotel, and a jewelry store for several decades. A 46-story high-rise, named the Stimson Center, was announced in 1983 and would have been the third-tallest building in Downtown Seattle at 588 feet (179 m). The complex was slated to cost $ 200 million and include

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

81-435: A third place for the public. Its lowest three floors included a mix of upscale retail and restaurants as well as a Cineplex movie theater and chain restaurants. The lobby was described as "friendlier" than other Seattle skyscrapers despite its "elegant and posh" finishes, which included marble and granite between large windows. The skyscraper's crown is pointed and resembles an Egyptian obelisk . The public shopping area in

108-467: A 50 percent stake was sold the following year to Emirati firm Emaar Properties for $ 130 million. The complex's movie theater took several years to become profitable and was operated by Loews Cineplex until it closed in February 2001. The U.S. Bank Centre and Docusign Tower were purchased by EQ Office , a subsidiary of Blackstone Inc. , in 2019 for $ 1.2 billion. In 2021, EQ announced

135-524: 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

162-455: 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

189-603: 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

216-450: 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

243-740: A major department store in a seven-story podium that would also encompass the largest parking garage in Downtown Seattle, with capacity for 1,200 vehicles to replace the garage for the Washington Athletic Club . The oval-shaped tower, designed by architect and co-developer John Graham & Company , would have had glass and light-colored stone cladding. A street vacation was granted by the Seattle City Council in March 1985 after opposition due to its large size. The Music Box and adjacent Town Theater closed

270-518: A major, two-year renovation of the public lobby and shopping center, estimated to cost $ 70 million. The new commercial space, named "Cedar Hall", opened in June 2023 and comprises 155,000 square feet (14,400 m) across three floors. The building was also renamed to the U.S. Bank Center at this time. The Pacific First Centre was designed by Gerry Gerron of Callison Architecture, who intended its lobby and retail areas to comprise an "indoor street" and

297-399: 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

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324-469: A slope. The eastern entrance facing Third Avenue is slightly more than two stories higher than the Western side facing Second Avenue. On the west side, the building has a public hill-climb on two flights of outdoor escalators that were encased in clear tubes until 2006 when they were updated with a simpler, yet more modern glass roof. The building has three levels of outdoor plazas. Several retail spaces face

351-659: 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 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

378-568: The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries fined subcontractor The Erection Company $ 24,500 for safety violations as a result. The Pacific First Centre opened on May 30, 1989, amid an oversupply of downtown office real estate. It was 21 percent vacant by 1990 and the building's deed was transferred to financer Seafirst Bank in September 1989 to stave off a potential foreclosure. Prescott then re-acquired

405-624: 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

432-527: The building at the corner of Pike Street and 6th Avenue. The store closed in 2004. Pacific First was acquired by Washington Mutual in 1993 and planned to vacate the tower; U.S. Bank announced an eight-story lease and naming rights deal that was finalized that year. The bank began its move into the building, renamed the U.S. Bank Centre, in December 1993. The U.S. Bank Centre was sold to Bentall (later part of Ivanhoé Cambridge ) for $ 236 million in 1998;

459-490: The building in December 1990. The Pacific First Centre included a three-story public lobby, shopping center with upscale retailers, and two-screen movie theater ; the 23rd floor had a Montessori school and daycare, among the first in Seattle for a downtown office building. FAO Schwarz opened a toy store at the Pacific First Centre in 1995 and installed a 5,000-pound (2,300 kg) teddy bear statue outside

486-410: The building was purchased by EQ Office . Docusign took over naming rights in 2020 after expanding their lease within the building, which began in 2015. The exterior façade is composed of a six-sided, steel-framed tower that features a combination of tinted continuous double-glazed glass and polished spring rose granite panels. As is common with buildings in downtown Seattle, Docusign Tower rests on

513-399: The building's lower levels has a permanent collection of works by noted artists, funded by 1% set-aside of the construction costs. The collection includes Flower Form 2 by Dale Chihuly . 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

540-592: 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

567-417: The city, and has 24 elevators and 941,000 square feet (87,400 m ) of rentable space. The design work was done by The McKinley Architects , and it is owned by Chicago -based EQ Office . In 2013, the building was purchased by Canada's Ivanhoé Cambridge from Beacon Capital Partners of Boston . The building was renamed after First Interstate Bancorp was taken over by Wells Fargo in 1996. In 2019,

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594-474: The following month. Financing for the project collapsed in late 1985 after several major tenants pulled out, including law firm Perkins Coie ; AT&T was also sought as a potential major tenant, but they instead chose the Gateway Tower . By then, infighting between co-developers Graham and C.D. Stimson Company had escalated to lawsuits between the parties amid debts of $ 12 million. The development

621-537: 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 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

648-564: The project's architect. Prescott later became the first Seattle developer to court a Japanese firm for financing when it partnered with the Hazama Corporation and later the C. Itoh & Co. Demolition of the site's buildings, which had sat vacant for years, began in August. Sellen Construction was the general contractor for the project. An ironworker died from a fall at the Pacific First Centre construction site on August 22, 1988;

675-454: Was bought out in 1986 by Prescott, Inc. and retooled into a 44-story tower that would initially be named the 1420 Fifth Avenue Building. The city council approved new plans for the tower in December 1986. Tacoma -based Pacific First Bank announced in February 1987 that it would move 225 employees into the building, which was renamed the Pacific First Centre. Other major tenants included law firm Lane, Powell, Moss & Miller and Callison ,

702-523: Was finished in June to promote it as a "green and healthy" street and add pedestrian space in downtown. Docusign Tower Docusign Tower , previously the Wells Fargo Center , is a skyscraper in Seattle , in the U.S. state of Washington . Originally named First Interstate Center when completed in 1983, the 47- story , 574-foot (175 m) tower is now the ninth-tallest building in

729-431: 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

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