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| Location | Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
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| Opening date | October 20, 1988[1] |
| Developer | The Rouse Company |
| Owner | Brookfield Properties[2] |
| No. of stores and services | 21 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 2 |
| Total retail floor area | 102,706 square feet (9,500 m2) |
| No. of floors | 4 |
| Parking | 300 spaces |
| Website | westlakecenter |
Westlake Center is a four-story shopping center and 25-story office tower in downtown Seattle, Washington, United States. The southern terminus of the Seattle Center Monorail, it is located across Pine Street from Westlake Park, between 4th and 5th Avenues. It is named for Westlake Avenue, which now terminates north of the mall but once ran two blocks farther south to Pike Street. Westlake Park is considered Seattle's "town square"[3] and celebrities and political figures often make appearances or give speeches from the building's balcony.[4][5] The anchor stores are Saks Off 5th and Nordstrom Rack.
The current shopping center began construction in 1986 after over 20 years of planning, and opened its doors on October 20, 1988.[6] The building was designed by RTKL Associates on a site of 11,000 square metres (120,000 sq ft).[7] The mall has two food courts: the Asean StrEAT Food Hall on the first floor, which opened in November 2022 and was designed to resemble Southeast Asian food hawker stands;[8][9] and Bites on Pine Food Hall on the second floor.[10] The monorail terminal is located on the third floor.
- ^ Dougherty, Phil (January 10, 2008). "Westlake Center opens in downtown Seattle on October 20, 1988". historylink.org. History Link. Retrieved January 6, 2020.
- ^ "Westlake Center". Brookfield Properties.
- ^ Downtown Parks Renaissance Archived 2006-03-23 at the Wayback Machine, Seattle Downtown Parks & Public Spaces Task Force Report, Final Report March 16, 2006. Page A1 (27 of 34 in the PDF). Accessed online 2014-01-19.
- ^ Executive Sims' National Day of Prayer and Remembrance address at the Internet Archive, originally at "Welcome to nginx!". Archived from the original on 2014-08-29. Retrieved 2014-08-29., the old site of Metro/King County, dated September 14, 2001. Ron Sims was County Executive at the time. Accessed online 2014-01-19
- ^ Kevin Pelton, Storm Celebrates in Style, storm.wnba.com, October 16, 2004. Accessed online 2014-01-19.
- ^ Stein, Alan (January 10, 2008). "Seattle's Central Association unveils Westlake Center plans on December 3, 1968". HistoryLink. Retrieved January 6, 2020.
- ^ Barry Maitland. The new architecture of the retail mall. p. 148.
- ^ Vinh, Tan (January 12, 2023). "Restaurant review: This Seattle food hall has the look, feel and flavors of a Southeast Asian market". The Seattle Times. Retrieved January 17, 2023.
- ^ Van Huygen, Meg (December 15, 2022). "They Paved P.F. Chang's and Put Up a Night Market". The Stranger. Retrieved January 17, 2022.
- ^ "Bites on Pine Food Hall at Westlake Center". Westlake Center. Retrieved January 17, 2023.
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