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A “key lynchpin” of the city’s sweeping, $806 million waterfront remaking is scheduled to open tomorrow afternoon, providing a long-awaited pedestrian connection with downtown neighborhoods and Pike Place Market — along with views people haven’t seen since the viaduct came down more than five years ago.

The elevated Overlook Walk straddles a nearly 100-vertical-foot gap between the 97-year-old Pike Place Market and the new 20-acre waterfront below. The pedestrian connection offers panoramic views of downtown, Elliott Bay, the Olympic Mountains and, when it’s cooperating, Mount Rainier, as it winds past a playground, a concessions area and canopy, a public park on the roof of Seattle Aquarium’s newly opened Ocean Pavilion on its way to the promenade.

“Nobody misses the viaduct, but they miss the views from the viaduct,” Angela Brady, director of the Office of the Waterfront & Civic Projects, said at a media preview tour for Overlook Walk on Wednesday.

“The transformation of Seattle’s Waterfront was envisioned and supported by many civic leaders and residents over the years to reconnect our city back to the sea, and through Overlook Walk we have accomplished just that,” Brady said in a press release sent out for the media preview.

Designed by Field Operations of New York, the urban design lead for Waterfront Park as well as Overlook Walk, local firm Miller Hull and structural engineer Magnusson Klemencic Associates, and built by general contractor Hoffman Construction, Overlook Walk has been under construction since June of 2022.

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