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A strategy for Seattle's downtown core and the neighborhoods around it

• Pioneer Square Area Park Improvements
  The park improvements will transform Occidental Square into an active, vibrant, and neighborhood enhancing public space.
• Downtown Parks Task Force
  The charge of the Downtown Parks Task Force is to advocate for the parks, implement strategies for park improvements, and guide the expenditure of funds proposed in the 2005 capital and operating budgets for the operation, maintenance, and improvement of six downtown parks.
• Freeway Park
  Activating Freeway Park to create a park’s that is an “urban oasis,” while being balanced with a need for more activities in order to turn this park into a city-wide destination.The edges of the park will be enhanced with major, visible anchors to attract visitors and create a positive image for the park.
• City Hall Park Improvement Project
  This project will transform City Hall Park, located directly south of the King County Courthouse, into an attractive gateway to downtown Seattle .
• Olympic Sculpture Park
  "Coming soon! The Olympic Sculpture Park will be a vibrant, 8.5-acre green space where people can experience art outdoors. As a new community gathering space, the Olympic Sculpture Park will transform the largest undeveloped waterfront property in downtown Seattle into a unique park that reflects the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest .
• Belltown/Lower Queen Anne Waterfront Connections
  Creating a  pedestrian connection at Thomas Street .
• Community Centers
  Creating community gathering places for communities that are accessible to all, including the disabled.
• Chinatown/ID community center (completed)
• Yesler Community Center (completed)
• Belltown Community Center (in planning phase)
• Seattle Aquarium / Pier 59 Remodel Project
  The  Seattle Aquarium project  is a remodel of the Seattle Aquarium and Pier 59.  Seattle Parks and Recreation will restore structural integrity to the majority of the facility by installing new driven and posted piles and new concrete aprons (to replace existing wooden ones). Following the pile work, the east end of the building will be carefully removed; the existing building facade (front of building) will be stored at Pier 62/63 and restored before it is replaced next year.
• Uptown Park
  The Uptown Park vision is for a park that is vibrant, unique and attractive. The site is challenging, and will require bold ideas outside traditional park design to respond to potential site security issues and counteract potential undesirable urban activities
• I-5 Colonnade
  The I-5 Colonnade project will develop an area under I-5 into open space and consider an off-leash area, stairs to make pedestrian connections, and other amenities.