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5 BELLTOWN AND SEATTLE CENTER: ALL YESTERDAY’S TOMORROWS
BOUNDARIES: 5th Ave., Virginia St., Warren Ave. N., and Mercer St.
DISTANCE: 4 miles, in two segments
DIFFICULTY: Easy (all flat or slight inclines)
PARKING: Metered street parking; pay lots along Denny Way east of Broad St.
PUBLIC TRANSIT: Metro routes #3, 4, 8, 16, 19, 24, and 33 stop near this walk’s start.
In 1962, local civic leaders mounted the Century 21 Exposition, a world’s fair celebrating what our world was supposed to have become by now. While we don’t yet have domed cities or flying cars, we’ve kept the fair’s grounds as a place for theater, opera, sports, science exhibits, and festivals. It all occurs under the watchful gaze and wasp-waisted stance of the Space Needle, one of the world’s most recognizable icons. Seattle’s prime symbol also looks over Belltown and the Denny Regrade, neighborhoods long overlooked by many. Where the fair’s monorail once passed above car lots, printing plants, and nondescript commercial buildings, residential towers now scrape the sky and fashionable restaurants and boutiques beckon.