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Waterfront Park Grand Opening

Seattle’s new Waterfront Park is slated for its Grand Opening in spring of 2025! In the meantime, several locations have been opened for activities this year – Friends of Waterfront Park, in partnership with the City of Seattle and community partners, has curated summer programming of over 75 free cultural events on Pier 62 ranging from fitness and wellness classes to diverse live music, performances, and their annual Waterfront Block Party. As well as the Pioneer Square Habitat Beach, the Promenade Pop-Ups bringing local BIPOC artisans to the waterfront, and the semi-permanent art installation at Stadium Plaza showcasing Indigenous art. And there’s more exciting activations coming! From the new jellyfish-inspired playground on Pier 58, the various fountains, sculptures, and artworks, additional greenery, public bathrooms, to the new Overlook Walk with its café and 360-degree epic views of the city and the sea.

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You’re invited to come play, enjoy, and create at Seattle’s new 20-acre Waterfront Park, opening in spring of 2025! Friends of Waterfront Park, with community partners, curated over 75 free events, performances, and fitness classes during the 2024 summer season. With more free activities, events, and construction completions planned for the autumn and winter seasons at Waterfront Park, learn more and get involved at waterfrontparkseattle.org and follow Friends on their socials to stay current on Waterfront Park updates and calendars. Friends’ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/waterfrontparkseattle/

About Friends of Waterfront Park 

Friends of Waterfront Park is a 501c3 not for profit responsible for fundraising, stewarding, and programming at Waterfront Park. In deep collaboration with individuals, communities, and institutional partners, Friends has curated summer programming of over 75 free cultural events on Pier 62 ranging from fitness and wellness classes to diverse live music, performances, and their annual Waterfront Block Party. As the non-profit partner with the City of Seattle, Friends is continuing to raise $170M to support programming, construction, public safety and maintenance at Waterfront Park and they are committed to creating a space that reflects Seattle’s beauty and culture.

About Waterfront Park 

Waterfront Park is the new 20-acre park that serves as a new public space where the Alaskan Way Viaduct once stood. 15 years in the making, this park stretches from the Stadium District, along the waterfront piers, all the way north to Belltown connecting the surrounding communities to the waterfront, the environment, and to each other. The park includes separate bike lanes, pedestrian walks, bench seating, fountains, art sculptures and installations, and plenty of native plantings.

Waterfront Park is made possible by the collaboration of multiple organizations: the City of Seattle’s Office of the Waterfront and Civic Projects leads the effort for infrastructure, feasibility, rebuilding, and improvements; and Seattle Center manages the daily operations, maintenance, and public safety of the park; while Friends of Waterfront Park is the partner fundraising, stewarding, and managing programming of the park.

This world-class park is a canvas for Seattle’s rich and vibrant culturally diverse communities to come and create on – Pier 62 offers event space for programming, fitness classes, intimate performances and concerts, and informal group get togethers, all while having the mountains and sea as a backdrop!

Stadium Plaza offers a safe pedestrian connection to the stadiums with additional space for nine semi-permanent art installations showcasing Indigenous artist Kimberly Saladin with plans to rotate the art exhibition’s artist yearly.

Pioneer Square Habitat Beach is a connection to the water and provides a safe place for not only local marine life but also local Seattleites. And during low tide catch a peek of the new and improved Elliott Bay Seawall, designed to encourage natural ecosystem growth, and optimize the salmon migration corridor.

The new Colman Dock terminal offers locals and visitors a safe, clean, and comfortable ferry traveling experience and the curvy-white Marion Street Bridge creates a beautiful pedestrian walk into Downtown – a welcomed sight over the previous winding bridge eye-sore from the Viaduct days.

Although the park is inherently family-friendly, there are several locations throughout the park tailored specifically for the young (or young at heart) including Pier 58 with its historic Fitzgerald Fountain, additional greenery and seating, adjacent public restrooms, and the new marine-inspired playground with a one-of-a-kind 20-foot tall Jellyfish tower: not to mention the sweeping views of the Sound, distant mountains, and the iconic Great Wheel.

Overlook Walk is an engineering feat of world-class design and will be the first-ever direct pedestrian connection between Pike Place Market and the waterfront. Situated on top of the Aquarium’s Ocean Pavilion, the walk includes cascading steps and gathering spaces including ample seating, native plantings, climbing structures and slides, a café with covered pavilion seating, and 360-degree epic views of Waterfront Park, Downtown Seattle, and where the mountains meet the sea!

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Friends’ Cultural Master Plan

Public Art at the Park

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