- Jason Neuerberg via Flickr
- Maybe someday someone will be around to abide by this sign.
THURSDAY: Back in February, reigning warlord of eco-friendly architecture James Corner asked Seattleites to remake our falling-into-Puget-Sound, fish-and-chip graveyard of a waterfront into a Utopian urban space that people want to use (and you can actually get to from downtown).
He and his SpecOps field operations team made a thrilling discovery—we like the water and the views of the islands and goofy neighbor West Seattle, but we’re not so big on Ye Olde Curiosity Shop(ppp?)e or eating a pound of beer-battered cod. Well, they listened (so validating!) and will reveal their preliminary new waterfront designs tomorrow.
Come! Look! Bitch! Toast! Comment!
Food trucks will be on hand to feed you, because nothing says civic engagement like snack time. RSVP here. (Bell Harbor Conference Center on the waterfront, 6:30 p.m.)
“you can actually get to from downtown”
What the he’ll does this mean? You can walk right down from downtown.
@1, viaduct haters are the kind of people who don’t believe in things they can’t see right now. If you can’t see the waterfront, there is no waterfront. A minute later, they’re there, and downtown ceases to exist in turn.
It’s funny they’re holding this at the Bell Harbor Conference Center, which is an absolutely perfect example of the kind of soulless, dead, monumental, corporatized, street-destroying dead zone that the waterfront is going to be turned into. I’ll take creaking piers, pigeon shit, and fish and chips anyday.
Yeah and that 6 lane surface street option is going to make the waterfront kick ass!! Why travel at 55 mph when you can stop for pedestrians every 3-4 blocks! /sarcasm
I like the curiosity shoppe as well as eating a shark steak at Anthonys. Why would anyone remove that? If your cruise is docking in Seattle for half a day and the cruise offers horrible food, then you really want a good option within walking distance.
Corner is imaginative enough to recognize that his design should incorporate the existing Viaduct.
I like the curiosity shop. It seems well placed for those cruise ships
I don’t know what kind of waterfront doesn’t have fish n chip vendors or weird curio shops, but I know it’s a waterfront I want nothing to do with.
I go down there frequently, and I never abide by that sign.
@2 Fnarf for the True Seattle Waterfront win.
No, really.
@6 wait until you see the Ferris Wheel.
I have no problem with fish and chips and curio shops, but I have a problem when tourist stuff completely shuts out any other uses.
@9, WHAT other uses? The waterfront is completely useless. There’s nothing there. Boats are not for the most part important to Seattle anymore, and the ones that are don’t come to downtown, aside from the ferry. And none of those tourist uses impede the ferries one bit.