SEATTLE — The destruction of the last double-decker span from the 1950s era Alaskan Way Viaduct is over, with the work completed Saturday night. It's been more than seven months since the contractor ...

An elevated park near the Seattle waterfront might seem like a good idea at first glance, but when you read the plans a little closer, it’s something that voters could quickly come to regret.

Voters will likely get to decide whether or not to keep a portion of the Alaskan Way Viaduct in tact as part of an elevated waterfront park. The Seattle City Council has a resolution to reject an ...

Seattle’s new Overlook Walk is far more than a pedestrian bridge. Built as part of the city’s massive waterfront transformation, the $70 million project reconnects Pike Place Market with the ...

Pathways lined with greenery in Seattle's Waterfront Park - Gunnar E Eide/Shutterstock Seattle replaced a hulking old viaduct with something spectacular: a stitched-together stretch of gardens, ...

SEATTLE — Overlook Walk, a new landmark along Seattle's Waterfront, is set to open to the public Friday. The elevated park is located where the Alaskan Way Viaduct between Pike Place Market and the ...

RANT AND RAVE Rant to the old, dangerous, noisy, polluting Alaskan Way Viaduct. Good riddance. Rave to the new Alaskan Way waterfront — quiet, roomy, wonderfully landscaped, accessible with fantastic ...

The Commuter Building complex's teardown is complete, leaving a square-block gap in the waterfront where there hasn't been one for 120 years. What's more, the many new sightlines the demo opened up ...

A friend recently sent me a link to a 2007 Seattle Times column castigating my mayoral administration’s lofty vision of a Seattle waterfront without an elevated highway walling it off from our city.

Seattle’s new Overlook Walk is part of a sweeping transformation of the city’s waterfront following the removal of the aging Alaskan Way Viaduct. The elevated pedestrian pathway links Pike Place ...

SEATTLE – At some point in the not-too-distant future, someone will hop on a bike at Alki Beach in West Seattle and ride along Seattle’s corner of the Salish Sea, by the industrial monoliths on Harbor ...

SEATTLE – The 2001 Nisqually earthquake shook for just 40 seconds but triggered decades of political aftershocks that led Seattle to where it is today: at the grand opening of a new waterfront. The ...