The lane closures will include the two left lanes of southbound I-5 between Northeast 50th Street (exit 169) and Eastlake ...

Seattle’s Freeway Park, a pioneering work of modernist landscape architecture by Lawrence Halprin and Angela Danadjieva that is widely recognized as the world’s first freeway cap park, ...

The park was hard-won, with citizen activists demonstrating on behalf of a lidded freeway as far back as the 1950s. Twenty years later, the five-acre Freeway Park was dedicated on the nation’s ...

Founded in 1993, the Freeway Park Association is a nonprofit that advocates for the park and its legacy. While it only has two staff members, it works closely with Seattle Parks Department and is ...

(In addition to the park itself, the convention center also acts as a lid over Interstate 5 as it passes through downtown Seattle.) Of the $10 million Freeway Park budget, $9,250,000 is reserved ...

About a 1.7 mile stretch from 4th Ave will be closed from S Washington Street in Pioneer Square to the Seattle Center for the ...

Seattle's Freeway Park, which arches over Interstate 5 near downtown, is beginning a revival, thanks to activists within the Freeway Park Neighborhood Association who are sponsoring dances and ...

With the approach of what should be a time of celebration, the 30th anniversary of Freeway Park, Seattle attorney James Ellis tells a painful story bespeaking neglect of this 5-acre urban oasis ...

On Friday, January 18, 2002, four women walked into the public restrooms in the heart of Freeway Park and found a dead body on the floor. It was 10:15 a.m. The raw energy of the violent murder ...

When Freeway Park opened above Interstate 5 in Seattle on July 4, 1976, it was a big hit as people flocked there to lie in the sun and enjoy the waterfalls.

SEATTLE - The biggest park in downtown got a safety check-up Thursday night, as volunteers highlighted the dark and potentially dangerous spaces throughout Freeway Park.Freeway Park is unique in ...

SEATTLE — A section of northbound Interstate 5 got a little wider, and a bit easier to navigate, after 55 years. After years with a bottleneck, a third lane just opened on the freeway in ...