Scroll to #Seattle! The New York Times dropped their ultimate World Cup city guide. 48 teams, 104 matches, 16 host cities, and one of them is ours. 📰 Read the full guide (subscription required): https://lnkd.in/deG86PHc #SeattleWorldCup #SeattleSoccer

Follow the scent of freshly roasted coffee to Overlook Walk Café and learn the story behind #BoonBoonaCoffee. #SmallBusinessMonth 💬 In this Q&A, CEO and founder Efrem Fesaha shares how East African coffee traditions are creating space for connection and belonging at Waterfront Park: bit.ly/3MYNWRg

SEA showing UP for the world this summer. Can’t wait to host soccer fans and community at Pier 62!

ICYMI: Two Hero of the Deep honorees from Friends is not a coincidence; it reflects the people who make this place what it is: https://waterfrontparkseattle.org/blog/two-years-two-heroes-friends-celebrates-hero-of-the-deep-honorees/

20 acres. 5 months. Hundreds of free events. #Seattle. 🌊✨ Our 2026 summer programming season at Waterfront Park is officially here. Come for the events, stay for the community! 👉 Check out our full season overview: https://waterfrontparkseattle.org/blog/2026-friends-summer-programming-season/

Congratulations to Field Operations and the City of Seattle on this well-deserved recognition! 🌊 Waterfront Park has been named Best in Urbanism at the 2026 Monocle Design Awards: https://lnkd.in/gvDcCw53 #UrbanDesign #SeattleWaterfront

Big congratulations to Field Operations and the City of Seattle! Waterfront Park has been named Best in Urbanism by the Monocle Design Awards 2026 and honestly, we couldn't agree more: https://bit.ly/3QEm7z5 #SeattleWaterfront #UrbanDesign

Two Heroes of the Deep. 🏒✨ We're incredibly proud that former Friends board chair Maggie Walker has been named a 2026 Hero of the Deep by the Seattle Kraken and One Roof Foundation—following our very own Jordan Remington, who received the same honor in 2024: https://bit.ly/3PV89sb

Play in the city hits different at Waterfront Park. Our president and CEO Joy Shigaki shares what that looks like for families in this lovely read: https://bit.ly/41QbuLM #SeattleFamilies

Dropping your official invite to Pier Party! 🎉 🎫 Get your early bird tix to join us Friday, July 17 at Pier 62—one night of music, art, food and the people who make this place special. Every ticket supports our work to keep Waterfront Park thriving: https://bit.ly/47HVbEi

"Seattle is at its best when our public spaces bring us together." @mayorofseattle.bsky.social & local leaders celebrated completion of the Bell Street Improvements project on Monday, creating a better experience for people walking & biking between Belltown & Waterfront Park: youtu.be/V6Dknh_PVh8

📽️ We love when art on the Park Promenade has a story like this. Artist Qwalsius Shaun Peterson (Puyallup) shares the inspiration behind his installation, Family, in this conversation with Waterfront Seattle Program and the Office of Arts and Culture: https://bit.ly/4rZRJwc

Tuli Lodge gave Seattle a new reason to gather: community, cold plunges and an affordable sauna experience in the city. Here's our Q&A with founder & CEO Hannah Goldstein: https://bit.ly/4rD35Gd

Mariners are back! 🙌⚾ Gantry Public House is hosting Gantry Yard on Railroad Way South for three pregame fun days during Home Opening Weekend (March 26–28, 2–7 p.m.) Come early, stay loud & let's go M's! 21+ only, valid ID required. Getting to Railroad Way South: https://bit.ly/4bfrRWs

This Women's History Month, Molly Moon's Homemade Ice Cream is honoring Joy Shigaki, President & CEO of Friends of Waterfront Park, with a flavor all her own. 🍫 Meet Chocolate Joy—and the leader who inspired it: https://bit.ly/40kloof #InternationalWomensDay #WomensHistoryMonth

⚽ Meet us at Waterfront Park as we welcome the world to our city alongside Sounders FC, Seattle Reign FC and RAVE Foundation to activate the full 20-acre park: https://bit.ly/46XOTzT 🔁 @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social #SeattleWaterfront #DowntownSeattle

Happy Lunar New Year, friends! Celebrating with throwback to Mak Fai Kung Fu Dragon & Lion Dance Association’s Spotlight at Waterfront Park performance last summer. 🧧✨ Here’s to a Year of the Fire Horse filled with courage, joy, and moments that bring us together. Photos by Jo Cosme.

Packed house. Powerful speeches. ☕✨Boon Boona’s grand opening at Overlook Walk Cafe was a celebration of community, culture, and Black entrepreneurship at the heart of Waterfront Park. Converge Media recapped the story beautifully: https://bit.ly/4rIQqSo

High fives with Blitz the Seahawk and pure kid-power energy from last summer's Pier 58 opening. Now we’re passing that cheer all the way to the.... SUPER BOWL! 🏈💚 📸 Jo Cosme. #GoHawks #12s #BlueFriday

This Valentine’s Day, fall for a beach that’s a little unexpected. 💙 Pioneer Square Habitat Beach is a tiny pocket of calm where people (and young salmon) come to chill. Worth the love letter from Seattle Met: https://bit.ly/4bWeflh #SeattleWaterfront #DowntownSeattle

Next time you stroll the waterfront, take a moment to pause to check out the new interpretive signs. They share stories of history, geography, and Native communities and serve as a reminder of how this place came to be: https://bit.ly/4k01ZBT

Turns out when you build a park for community, the people show up. And return. And return again. Secret Seattle recaps Waterfront Park’s opening season—3M+ visits and counting. Check out the story: https://bit.ly/3NyD1O7 #SeattleWaterfront

🗞️this @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social article got us thinking about how much we all need places where we can just show up, hang out, and feel part of something. That’s Waterfront Park for us—an easy, open place to pause, people-watch, say hi, and feel a little more connected: https://bit.ly/4sN0tqU

There’s a moment when a place stops being new and starts being known. This summer, Waterfront Park marked that line—thanks to millions of visits, hundreds of free programs & a whole lot of community. Read our blog on our Grand Opening Season that set the tone for what’s next: https://bit.ly/4qApCDo

Happy New Year from your Friends of Waterfront Park! Here’s to another year together on Seattle's shoreline. 📸 Erik Holsather

🏆 Waterfront Park made Fast Company’s 4 Best Waterfront Parks of 2025 list—and we’re going into the new year on a high! Come check out the place everyone’s falling for: https://www.fastcompany.com/91458276/best-waterfront-parks-2025 #SeattleWaterfront #DowntownSeattle

“Our front yard and our backyard.” Seattle local and neighbor Lorena reflects on moving back downtown, strolling to the water without crossing a freeway, and watching her toddler play with kids from all over the world: https://bit.ly/3KQBj9W #SeattleWaterfront #DowntownSeattle

You don’t have to go far to end 2025 somewhere special. A reminder that some of the best places to explore are right in our backyard. 📖 Rediscover WA’s world‑class gems, from Waterfront Park to the Gorge: https://bit.ly/49fVK8n #DowntownSeattle #2025Recap #WaterfrontParkSeattle

Proof that Waterfront Park doesn’t clock out. 📸 Park Experience team

Posada Navideña, in moments. ✨ Thank you to our friends at Aquí Mercado for filling Pier 66 with music, tradition, and so much heart and to @portofseattle.bsky.social for this wonderful space. 💙

Wow, Seattle and Waterfront Park are featured in this national roundup of cities blending nature into everyday life! Worth a read if you love this place as much as we do: https://bit.ly/44O9RA2

Gray isn’t a flaw...it’s part of the plan. @seattleaquarium.bsky.social's Ocean Pavilion is crafted to age like the shoreline it faces, blending sustainably sourced wood with intentional design: https://bit.ly/48eR4jM #SeattleWaterfront #UrbanDesign

On Native American Heritage Day, we celebrate the vibrant cultures, traditions, and ongoing contributions of the Coast Salish peoples across this region. In our work, we'll continue to listen, learn, and uplift the communities whose homelands we gather on every day. 📷 Andy Shepard, Jo Cosme

Waterfront Park was packed with joy this year—thousands dancing, laughing, and proving what public spaces can do when community leads. As we head into giving season, we’re sharing how your support keeps that energy alive all year long: https://bit.ly/4pxY7K8

Friends of Waterfront Park is stepping into a new era of stewardship. Honoring the leadership that got us here, welcoming new board co-chairs, and launching a five-year strategic plan that centers community, care, and connection across 20-acres of this park, read what's next: https://bit.ly/48fbXKb

We love to see Friends collaborator Stevie Shao bringing her magic to Secondhand Sunday with Evergreen Goodwill. If you needed a sign to thrift instead of sprint for a sale—this tote is it. 🔗 https://seattlemag.com/news/totes-secondhand/

And Waterfront Park is now one reason to enjoy this city of ours!

Our first-ever Dinner with Friends was a powerful moment! Our community showed up to usher in a new chapter for Friends of Waterfront Park: fully managing and fundraising for this 20-acre public space. Thank you for being part of it. 📸 Brandon Patoc.

HNTB’s blog “Reviving a Waterfront, Reconnecting a City,” beautifully captures what makes Seattle’s new Waterfront Park so special. It’s a behind the scenes look of one of Seattle’s most ambitious public projects in a century—and the result is nothing short of breathtaking: https://bit.ly/3K02JJL

Friends of Waterfront Park has completed its $170 million Campaign for Waterfront Park—the largest philanthropic effort for public space in our city’s history. Our work continues: to keep the waterfront thriving as a place for everyone. Read more: https://bit.ly/4hUxhJo

Fifteen years in the making, Waterfront Park is changing the face and the heart of downtown Seattle. 💫 As Bloomberg Citylab writes, it’s more than a park: it’s a bridge between city and sea, past and future: https://bloom.bg/4p0i7EZ

The State of Washington collaborated with five different tribes to design and install a collection of columns at Pioneer Square Habitat Beach. This artwork titled Stone Family by yulout, a Muckleshoot Indian Tribe elder. Photo by Jo Cosme. #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

Mother Nature’s favorite city? We think so. 🌲💚 From our reimagined Waterfront Park to green hotels and stunning scenic drives, Seattle’s connection to nature shines in this Global Traveller feature: https://bit.ly/47VPkM0

Waterfront Park is an incredible display of what excellent urban, public spaces can be! 💫 Congratulations, @seattleparksandrec.bsky.social and City of Seattle! parkways.seattle.gov/2025/10/27/s...

🥁💛 We’re grateful to Big World Breaks and Aaron Walker-Loud for bringing Beat Our Future to the waterfront and filling the park with the sound of connection: https://lnkd.in/gesubvz9 #SeattleWaterfront #DowntownSeattle #CommunityPartnerships

Huge turnout braved the rain to celebrate the new E Marginal Way bike lanes this morning with @bestsidecycling.com & @seattlebikeblog.com! Ride Info: www.seattlebikeblog.com/2025/10/16/w...

Just another day in paradise with #Seattle sunshine. ☔ 📸 Jo Cosme. #OverlookWalk #DowntownSeattle

🎃 We're bringing you much Frights & Delights next Friday, October 31, including a fun BINGO activity! Join us at Seneca & Alaskan Way to celebrate Halloween along the waterfront, where trick‑or‑treating, family fun, and a little bit of spooky magic await: https://bit.ly/4no4WN0

Peek beneath Overlook Walk to meet Ann Hamilton’s Guests—forty-two illuminated gentle giants that sway, shimmer, and greet the city in a quiet dance of light and color. More about the project: https://bit.ly/3WinnaJ #SeattleArt #SeattleWaterfront

Public art at Seattle’s reimagined waterfront tells a deeper story, one that bridges the city’s past and future. Among the new installations is a carving of Chief Sealth and his mother, part of a collection that honors Indigenous artists and history. @waterfrontparksea.bsky.social