Target for full completion of Waterfront Seattle Program

2025

Completion of Waterfront Seattle’s Park Promenade from Pioneer Square to Seattle Aquarium, Expected Late 2024

2024

Alaskan Way traffic lanes open; Union Street Pedestrian Bridge completed

2022

Grand opening for the Alaskan Way Tunnel; Viaduct Demolition begins

2019

Drilling for the Alaskan Way Tunnel is completed, and the MarketFront, the first piece of the new pedestrian connection between downtown and the waterfront, opened

2017

Drilling for the Alaskan Way Tunnel begins, using Bertha

2013

Waterfront Concept Design, Framework Plan and Strategic Plan are endorsed by the Seattle mayor and city council

2012

Waterfront Seattle Program’s guiding principles established in Resolution 31264

2011

Official start for the Waterfront Seattle Program

2010

Decision to bore a tunnel is reached

2009

Planning efforts for the Waterfront Seattle Program begin

2003