Seattle's Waterfront Park sees visitor boom as project nears completion
It's been evident to anyone who looks that Seattle's new Waterfront Park has been a big draw.
On Thursday, data that the Seattle Historic Waterfront Association released shows the number of unique visitors reached a record of nearly 7.5 million last year — 13% more than in 2023. It was a more than 500% increase compared with 2020, when the 20-acre park was in the throes of construction as the pandemic gripped the world.
"It shows that the vision we defined in 2009 to bury Seattle's traffic in a tunnel and open a new 20-acre park on the waterfront is working," association leader Bob Donegan, president of Ivar's, said in a press release.
Construction of the $806 million Waterfront Park is in its last year. Over a mile of bike lanes opened this month with the entire park expected to open this spring, according to Friends of Waterfront Park, the city's nonprofit partner.
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