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On Saturday, the City of Seattle, Friends of Waterfront Park, Tribal leaders, state representatives, and other community and civic partners celebrated the official completion of Seattle’s new Waterfront Park with a day-long community festival. This historic, multi-billion-dollar investment — the largest collection of civic projects since the 1962 World’s Fair — is the result of decades of collaboration among the City and its partners.

Stretching from Belltown to Pioneer Square, the new park transforms the former footprint of the Alaskan Way Viaduct into a vibrant public destination with green spaces, cultural experiences, bike and pedestrian access, and year-round programming — reconnecting downtown Seattle to Elliott Bay.

Speakers:
Mayor Bruce Harrell, City of Seattle
Jaison Elkins, Chairperson, Muckleshoot Indian Tribe
Leonard Forsman, Chairman, Suquamish Tribe
Chris Gregoire, Former Washington State Governor
Angela Brady, Director, Office of the Waterfront, Civic Projects and Sound Transit
Joy Shigaki, President and CEO, Friends of Waterfront Park