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This 1996 map of the Pioneer Square-Skid Road Historic District shows the location of the Kingdome (at the lower right in the map). The Kingdome (officially the King County Stadium) [4] [note 1] was a multi-purpose stadium located in the Industrial District (later SoDo) [7] neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States.
The Iron Horse was a hamburger restaurant in Seattle, Washington, established in 1971 by Charlie Maslow. [1] Located in Pioneer Square, food orders at the restaurant were delivered by model trains which moved along a track that circled the dining area.
A floor-by-floor demolition of the McGuire Apartments building, as opposed to the implosion method used for Seattle's Kingdome in 2000, [8] was approved by the City of Seattle in March 2011. [9] Contractor Lease Crutcher Lewis began salvage and demolition work on April 4, 2011, [ 10 ] [ 11 ] with the garage leveled beginning the following month ...
The Via6 Towers are a pair of 24-story apartment buildings in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Construction began in 2011 and the building topped out in June 2012. [3] The complex opened February 2013 and includes 18,000 square feet of retail space at street level. [4] The building was constructed to Leed Gold standards. [3]
During the Klondike Gold Rush in 1897 and 1898, Seattle was a center for travel to Alaska. Thousands of so-called "stampeders" passed through Seattle, making the city's merchants prosperous. [17] Pioneer Square totem pole in 2008. In 1899, a group of citizens stole a Tlingit totem pole and placed it in Pioneer Place Park. After the Tlingit ...
During this period, 15 skyscrapers taller than 400 feet (122 m) in height were constructed in Seattle, including 901 Fifth Avenue (1973), the Henry M. Jackson Federal Building (1974), 1600 Seventh Avenue (1976), Rainier Tower (1977), 1111 Third Avenue (1980), the Westin Building (1981), 800 Fifth Avenue (1981), Union Square (1981 and 1989), and ...
One of the block's buildings housed the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and was the site of a shooting in 2006. [4] [5] The mixed-use project initially had 140 luxury apartments and 13 floors of office space, but was changed to 384 market-rate apartments and 9 floors of offices during design review. [6]
901 Fifth Avenue is a 163.38 m (536.0 ft) skyscraper in downtown Seattle, Washington. It was completed in 1973 and has 42 floors. It is the 11th tallest building in Seattle, and was designed by John Graham and Associates. The building was opened as the Bank of California Building. Flood lights illuminate all sides of the tower at night.