ABOUT THE PROJECT

Project features include:

• Connections to park spaces, restaurants, stores, and the Aquarium
• New gardens, lighting, and seating
• Accessible boardwalks featuring native plants
• Protected bike facility
• Swings and other amenities
• An all-gender restroom
• Permanent art installations by Buster Simpson, Oscan Tuazon and Shaun Peterson
• Interpretive and cultural signage

PARK PROMENADE

The park promenade is at the front porch of the new waterfront — providing a new linear park between Pioneer Square to the Seattle Aquarium and improving access to Seattle Ferry Terminal at Colman Dock and all the activities on the waterfront. The promenade joins the Overlook Walk on the north end and the rebuilt Railroad Way pedestrian plaza on the south end, providing access to the historic Pike Place Market and Pioneer Square neighborhoods.

PROTECTED BIKE LANES

The final segments of the 1.2 miles of new bike lanes along the Seattle waterfront opened in March 2025. The bike path has multiple features depending on the location including paint, tactile elements, and raised buffers on both sides to separate people biking from people walking and driving. Accessible traffic signals, signs, and markings are at pedestrian crossings to ensure a delineation of space and safer experience for all. These new segments connect to the city bicycle network on Spring St and in the Pioneer Square and Belltown neighborhoods. Once the Elliott Bay Connection project is complete, people can connect to the waterfront bike path from the Elliott Bay Trail near the Olympic Sculpture Park and ride south to join the existing Portside and Cityside trails at S King St.

On the south end and along the waterfront piers, bicyclists enjoy a two-way protected bike lane on the west side of Alaskan Way along the waterfront. North of the Aquarium and Overlook Walk, the bike lane transitions to one-way protected bike lanes on each side of Elliott Way. For existing bicycle facility routes, see SDOT’s Bike Web Map.  

PARTNER PROJECTS

• The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is under construction on the Alaskan Way Safety Project. This project will build a seamless connection between the waterfront bike path and the Elliott Bay Trail through Seattle’s central waterfront. Learn more about this project and its design on their website.
• Elliott Bay Connections(EBC): A new public–private partnership to connect and revitalize public parks along the Elliott Bay waterfront, north of the central waterfront. Funded entirely by private donations , Elliott Bay Connections is constructing a pedestrian and bicycle greenway connecting the new Waterfront Park to the Olympic Sculpture Park and restoring and revitalizing the Myrtle Edwards and Centennial Parks. The greenway and park restoration will be complete by June 2026. 

RESTROOM ON THE WATERFRONT

On March 25, 2025 we opened an all-gender public restroom which will have a concierge available.  The restroom is located on the waterfront promenade in a central location between Union St and University St. We designed the space with key goals in mind including making it a welcoming, safe, and clean facility for users of all ages and abilities; accommodations for families; and to be adjacent to gardens while optimizing views.  The restroom features six all-gender stalls with tall, seamless wall panels, while the architectural design allows for an open and airy feeling with natural ventilation, along with a baby changing station, and handwashing stations.

ART

Several publicly sited artworks are being added to the Park Promenade along the waterfront. 

• Artist Buster Simpson, in collaboration with the designers of the  promenade, installed a permanent publicly sited artwork Migration Stage located at the southern end of the promenade in front of Habitat Beach.
• Between Spring and Columbia streets, local artist Oscar Tuazon collaborated with indigenous carvers Randi Purser, Tyson Simmons, and Keith Stevenson to install artwork that responds to the Coast Salish history of the site that combines architecture and sculpture work.   
• A fountain by the late artist George Tsutakawa was restored and reinstalled in a new basin at Columbia St. Named after the donor who helped to fund it, “the Joshua Green Fountain,” was originally installed on Colman Dock in 1966 and was removed when the Washington State Department of Transportation and Washington State Ferries began to rebuild the ferry terminal. 
• A new permanent installation of welcome figures by local artist and Puyallup tribe member Shaun Peterson, will greet visitors on the promenade near Pier 58.