Friday's Fotos: Night Walk...
I attended a fabulous chocolate event on Wednesday, September 30th with my coworker/friend Barbie Van Horn... (more about that in a post coming soon) It was a beautiful early Autumn evening in Seattle. I didn’t see the supermoon, but I enjoyed walking the South Lake Union neighborhood back to my car a little after 9pm.
It still amazes me to this day how much transformation this old neighborhood has gone through over the past couple of years. The redevelopment was the brainchild of Paul Allen and his Vulcan Inc. Even today there are several properties under construction. It’s like a campus now with high profile businesses and entities like Amazon, PATH, University of Washington Medicine, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research, Seattle BioMed, PEMCO, and a few hotels, with severak shops and restaurants.
If we rewind a 150 years or so Lake Union was known as Tenass Chuck or ‘little water’ in the Chinook language. When pioneer David Denny showed up with his party and claimed this land just south of the lake in 1853 it was forest with ample deer and elk and the fishing was good.
When I was a kid and up to a decade ago it was an old light industrial area that was past its glory, just north of downtown Seattle.
Tonight, it’s quiet. I’ve just turned off Westlake Ave N onto Harrison Street enjoying a view of the Space Needle a few blocks away at the Seattle Center. The construction workers have all gone home for the day, most of the local businesses are closed except for a few restaurants. The only traffic you'll see at this time of night is mostly on foot, rush hour is over. There's several condominiums and apartments close by and my old alma mater, Cornish College of the Arts, is just a few blocks south of me off Denny Way and Lenora.
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