Is Everett’s plan to move the AquaSox from aging Funko Stadium to a brand new downtown stadium an economic jolt or a costly gamble? The City of Everett will be leading financing on the project projected to cost at least $82 million.
With $15 million in federal funds in hand, accessibility upgrades are moving forward for the Seattle Center monorail station. Take a look at the preferred concept.
Adding light rail, rebuilding Memorial Stadium, and keeping tenants happy through it all is the challenge before Seattle Center. Walking around in Seattle Center and the neighborhood surrounding it, you quickly realize that one of the city’s largest pedestrian-only spaces has a lot of untapped potential. One morning in
Fall calls for nighttime things, Halloween doubly so. Therefore, a pre-holiday trip to the Georgetown Morgue fit the bill. Terrifying in all the best ways, it’s one of the city’s best autumn attractions. A colonic of terror for a tightly clenched Northwest. Getting home is not nearly as
To be honest, it’s a little difficult to decide whether this is a food review, a hockey game report, or a look at the ongoing issues at Seattle’s new arena. Bear with me, it was a fun, if difficult, hockey game. There was some testing of the batch
Climate Pledge Arena at Seattle Center has now been open for two months, hosting numerous Seattle Kraken games, concerts and basketball. But “Bike Lane Closed” signs remain in the brand new protected bike lanes that were required to be in place across the street as part of the arena’s
With less than three months until the opening of Climate Pledge Arena, almost entirely rebuilt compared to its former iteration as Key Arena, you might actually notice more activity on the streets surrounding the arena than you would by attempting to peek through the construction barricades at the site. A
The National Hockey League’s Seattle affiliate will announce today that they will be providing every single person who purchases a ticket to a hockey game held at the new Seattle Center Arena with a transit pass if they request one. The opening of the new arena will coincide with
The bike infrastructure around the Seattle Center Arena is on track to get an upgrade by the time visitors start arriving at the new arena–currently in the middle of being renovated into a larger sports and event venue–in 2021. As a requirement of the remodel, the arena’s
The Seattle Monorail recently released a survey on how riders perceive the system and how they think it could be improved. Built in 1962, the monorail opened to the public as part of several key expositions for the World’s Fair that year. The monorail has run primarily as a
On Monday, the Seattle City Council approved a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Oak View Group (OVG) paving the was for a $600 million redevelopment plan of KeyArena at Seattle Center and possibly the return of the Sonics. The MOU drew most of the attention during the meeting and
Mayor Ed Murray issued a resignation letter yesterday after a fifth man came forward–this time his cousin–alleging Murray had molested and raped him as a child in the 1970s. Joseph Dyer spoke to The Seattle Times and issued a signed declaration to the lawyer representing Delvonn Hackard, his
On Monday the Seattle City Council passed a resolution signaling intent to move forward with plans to renovate the Seattle Center Coliseum (popularly dubbed KeyArena despite shirked royalties by KeyBank). The day after, the Port of Seattle came up with the additional $10 million to close the funding gap for
Weeks before Mayor Murray was supposed to announce the winner of the redesign contest for KeyArena–hereafter called Seattle Center Coliseum*–AEG withdrew its proposal, breaking the suspense that Oak View Group would be the winner. AEG argued the process was not fair and its competitor was not being forthright
The City of Seattle put out a Request for Proposals (RFPs) to renovate Seattle Center Coliseum (better known as KeyArena despite the bank’s lapse in paying naming rights loyalties) on January 11th. Two proposals emerged and yesterday the Seattle City Council got an update on the plans at a
The City of Seattle hosted a media tour of KeyArena on Wednesday. The City hoped to get attention for the request for proposals it’s issued to upgrade the Seattle Center arena to support an NBA and/or NHL team. The Seattle Times‘ Matt Calkins took to his column to