Downtown Seattle, the Glossary

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1. 73 relations: Alki Point, Seattle, Amazon (company), Area code 206, Belltown, Seattle, Benaroya Hall, Broadway (Seattle), California, Capitol Hill, Seattle, Central business district, Central District, Seattle, Chinatown–International District, Seattle, Columbia Center, Community Transit, Denny Party, Denny Triangle, Seattle, Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel, Elliott Bay, Expeditors International, Farmers' market, First Hill, Seattle, Fortune 500, Freeway Park, Great Seattle Fire, Hill, Interstate 5 in Washington, King County Courthouse, King County Metro, King County, Washington, Land reclamation, Link light rail, Lower Queen Anne, Seattle, Manhattanization, Metropolitan Tract (Seattle), Mississippi River, Mudflat, Nordstrom, Nordstrom Downtown Seattle, North American Numbering Plan, Olympic Sculpture Park, Pacific Time Zone, Pike Place Market, Pioneer Square, Seattle, Puget Sound, Puget Sound region, Regrading in Seattle, Rem Koolhaas, Robert Venturi, Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Center, ... Expand index (23 more) »

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Alki Point, Seattle

Alki Point is a point jutting into Puget Sound, the westernmost landform in the West Seattle district of Seattle, Washington. Downtown Seattle and Alki Point, Seattle are neighborhoods in Seattle.

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Amazon (company)

Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company, engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.

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Area code 206

Area code 206 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the U.S. state of Washington.

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Belltown, Seattle

Belltown is the most densely populated neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, United States, located on the city's downtown waterfront on land that was artificially flattened as part of a regrading project. Downtown Seattle and Belltown, Seattle are neighborhoods in Seattle.

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Benaroya Hall

Benaroya Hall is the home of the Seattle Symphony in Downtown Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Broadway (Seattle)

Broadway is a major north–south thoroughfare in Seattle, Washington. Downtown Seattle and Broadway (Seattle) are neighborhoods in Seattle.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Capitol Hill, Seattle

Capitol Hill is a densely populated residential district in Seattle, Washington, United States. Downtown Seattle and Capitol Hill, Seattle are neighborhoods in Seattle.

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Central business district

A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business center of a city.

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Central District, Seattle

The Central Area, commonly called the Central District or The CD,Mary T. Henry,, HistoryLink, March 10, 2001. Downtown Seattle and Central District, Seattle are neighborhoods in Seattle.

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Chinatown–International District, Seattle

The Chinatown–International District of Seattle, Washington (also known as the abbreviated CID) is the center of the city's Asian American community. Downtown Seattle and Chinatown–International District, Seattle are neighborhoods in Seattle.

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Columbia Center

The Columbia Center, formerly named the Bank of America Tower and Columbia Seafirst Center, is a skyscraper in downtown Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Community Transit (CT) is the public transit authority of Snohomish County, Washington, United States, excluding the city of Everett, in the Seattle metropolitan area.

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Denny Party

The Denny Party is a group of American pioneers credited with founding Seattle, Washington.

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Denny Triangle, Seattle

The Denny Triangle is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, United States, that stretches north of Downtown Seattle to the grounds of Seattle Center. Downtown Seattle and Denny Triangle, Seattle are neighborhoods in Seattle.

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Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel

The Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel (DSTT), also referred to as the Metro Bus Tunnel, is a pair of public transit tunnels in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Elliott Bay

Elliott Bay is a part of the Central Basin region of Puget Sound.

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Expeditors International

Expeditors International of Washington (commonly referred to as Expeditors) is an American worldwide logistics and freight forwarding company headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

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Farmers' market

A farmers' market (or farmers market according to the AP stylebook, also farmer's market in the Cambridge Dictionary) is a physical retail marketplace intended to sell foods directly by farmers to consumers.

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First Hill, Seattle

First Hill is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, United States. Downtown Seattle and First Hill, Seattle are neighborhoods in Seattle.

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Fortune 500

The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled and published by Fortune magazine that ranks 500 of the largest United States corporations by total revenue for their respective fiscal years.

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Freeway Park

Freeway Park, officially known as Jim Ellis Freeway Park, is an urban park in Seattle, Washington, United States, connecting the city's downtown to the Seattle Convention Center and First Hill.

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Great Seattle Fire

The Great Seattle Fire was a fire that destroyed the entire central business district of Seattle, Washington, on June 6, 1889.

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Hill

A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain.

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Interstate 5 in Washington

Interstate 5 (I-5) is an Interstate Highway on the West Coast of the United States that serves as the region's primary north–south route.

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King County Courthouse

The King County Courthouse is the administrative building housing the judicial branch of King County, Washington's government.

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King County Metro

King County Metro, officially the King County Metro Transit Department and often shortened to Metro, is the public transit authority of King County, Washington, which includes the city of Seattle.

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King County, Washington

King County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Land reclamation

Land reclamation, often known as reclamation, and also known as land fill (not to be confused with a waste landfill), is the process of creating new land from oceans, seas, riverbeds or lake beds.

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Link light rail

Link light rail is a light rail rapid transit system serving the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Lower Queen Anne, Seattle

Lower Queen Anne (officially known since 2021 as Uptown) is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, at the base of Queen Anne Hill. Downtown Seattle and Lower Queen Anne, Seattle are neighborhoods in Seattle.

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Manhattanization

Manhattanization is a neologism coined to describe the construction of many tall or densely situated buildings, which transforms the appearance and character of a city to what is similar to Manhattan, the most densely populated borough of New York City.

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Metropolitan Tract (Seattle)

The Metropolitan Tract is an area of land in downtown Seattle owned by the University of Washington.

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Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the primary river and second-longest river of the largest drainage basin in the United States.

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Mudflat

Mudflats or mud flats, also known as tidal flats or, in Ireland, slob or slobs, are coastal wetlands that form in intertidal areas where sediments have been deposited by tides or rivers.

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Nordstrom

Nordstrom, Inc. is an American luxury department store chain headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and founded by John W. Nordstrom and Carl F. Wallin in 1901.

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Nordstrom Downtown Seattle

Nordstrom Downtown Seattle, originally known as the Frederick & Nelson Department Store, is a department store in Seattle, Washington on Pine Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

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North American Numbering Plan

The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is a telephone numbering plan for twenty-five regions in twenty countries, primarily in North America and the Caribbean.

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Olympic Sculpture Park

The Olympic Sculpture Park, created and operated by the Seattle Art Museum (SAM), is a public park with modern and contemporary sculpture in downtown Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Pacific Time Zone

The Pacific Time Zone (PT) is a time zone encompassing parts of western Canada, the western United States, and western Mexico.

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Pike Place Market

Pike Place Market is a public market in Seattle, Washington, United States. Downtown Seattle and Pike Place Market are Economy of Seattle.

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Pioneer Square, Seattle

Pioneer Square is a neighborhood in the southwest corner of Downtown Seattle, Washington, US. Downtown Seattle and Pioneer Square, Seattle are neighborhoods in Seattle.

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Puget Sound

Puget Sound is a sound on the northwestern coast of the U.S. state of Washington.

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Puget Sound region

The Puget Sound region is a coastal area of the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. state of Washington, including Puget Sound, the Puget Sound lowlands, and the surrounding region roughly west of the Cascade Range and east of the Olympic Mountains.

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Regrading in Seattle

The topography of central Seattle was radically altered by a series of regrades in the city's first century of urban settlement, in what might have been the largest such alteration of urban terrain at the time.

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Rem Koolhaas

Remment Lucas Koolhaas (born 17 November 1944) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.

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Robert Venturi

Robert Charles Venturi Jr. (June 25, 1925 – September 18, 2018) was an American architect, founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.

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Seattle Art Museum

The Seattle Art Museum (commonly known as SAM) is an art museum located in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Seattle Center

Seattle Center is an entertainment, education, tourism and performing arts center located in the Lower Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Seattle Center Monorail

The Seattle Center Monorail is an elevated straddle-beam monorail line in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Seattle Central Library

The Seattle Central Library is the flagship library of the Seattle Public Library system.

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Seattle City Hall

Seattle City Hall (also known as the Seattle Municipal Building) is the home of the offices of the mayor and city council of Seattle, Washington, located between 4th Avenue and 5th Avenue in the downtown area of the city.

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Seattle Weekly

The Seattle Weekly is an alternative biweekly distributed newspaper in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Seven hills of Seattle

The term seven hills of Seattle refers unofficially to the hills the U.S. city was built on and around, though there is no consensus on exactly which hills it refers to.

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Smith Tower

Smith Tower is a skyscraper in the Pioneer Square neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States.

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SoDo, Seattle

SoDo, alternatively SODO, is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, that makes up part of the city's Industrial District. Downtown Seattle and SoDo, Seattle are Economy of Seattle and neighborhoods in Seattle.

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Sound Transit Express

Sound Transit Express (ST Express) is a network of regional express buses, operated by the multi-county transit agency, Sound Transit.

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South Lake Union, Seattle

South Lake Union (sometimes SLU) is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, so named because it is at the southern tip of Lake Union. Downtown Seattle and south Lake Union, Seattle are neighborhoods in Seattle.

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Street clock

A street clock or post clock is a clock mounted on top of a post typically installed in a streetscape or other urban or park setting.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.

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The Seattle Times

The Seattle Times is an American daily newspaper based in Seattle, Washington.

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U.S. state

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.

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Union Square (Seattle)

Union Square is a skyscraper complex at Sixth Avenue between Union and University Streets in Downtown Seattle, Washington, adjacent to Freeway Park.

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United States Postal Service

The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, its insular areas, and its associated states.

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University of Washington

The University of Washington (UW and informally U-Dub or U Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Victor Steinbrueck Park

Victor Steinbrueck Park is a 0.8 acre (3,000 m²) park in Downtown Seattle, Washington, United States, located just northwest of Pike Place Market overlooking Elliott Bay.

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is the westernmost state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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West Coast of the United States

The West Coast of the United Statesalso known as the Pacific Coast, and the Western Seaboardis the coastline along which the Western United States meets the North Pacific Ocean.

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Westlake Center

Westlake Center is a four-story shopping center and 25-story office tower in downtown Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Westlake Park (Seattle)

Westlake Park is a public plaza in Downtown Seattle, Washington, United States.

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ZIP Code

A ZIP Code (an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan) is a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS).

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1201 Third Avenue

1201 Third Avenue (formerly Washington Mutual Tower) is a, 55-story skyscraper in Downtown Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington.

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See also

Economy of Seattle

• Demographics of Seattle
• Downtown Seattle
• Great Depression in Washington State Project
• Greater Seattle Business Association
• Pike Place Market
• Seattle head tax
• Seattle's minimum wage ordinance
• Seattle–Tacoma International Airport
• Skid row
• SoDo, Seattle

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Seattle

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