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

Visit Seattle debuted a new Community Leader of the Year award, recognizing our President & CEO Joy Shigaki as its very first recipient. 🌊💛 This honor celebrates Joy’s work to make Waterfront Park a place where everyone belongs and collaboration with countless partners: https://bit.ly/4qdQ71U

🎉 Big congratulations to our President & CEO, Joy Shigaki (she/her)! Named one of Puget Sound Business Journal’s 100 Executives Shaping the Puget Sound Region, Joy is being recognized for her leadership in shaping a Waterfront Park that connects our city to the shoreline: https://bit.ly/4o4hbQ1

More than a century ago, the SS Dix sank in Elliott Bay… but some say it never really left. From phantom lights to whispers on the wind, Seattle’s waters still tell the tale. Dive into the haunting from Seattle's Tall Ship: https://seattlesailingship.com/seattle-ghost-stories-ss-dix/

Great reminder from our friends at Visit Seattle: Explore our city from every angle by ferry, light rail, bike, or even seaplane. Taking it in through its many modes of transportation is half the adventure: https://visitseattle.org/blog/exploring-seattles-surroundings-without-a-car/

Every month, KEXP DJ Eva Walker writes a letter to her daughter to share wisdom learned from her experiences—and her mistakes. She's written about everything from farting to accidentally becoming a satanist. Here, she tells us about performing with her band, The Black Tones, in an Oklahoma prison.

Our board chair Maggie Walker has led the charge to transform our shoreline into a vibrant, inclusive public space that it is today. From launching our $170M campaign during the pandemic to uniting key decision makers, her leadership is a visionary blueprint in civic impact: https://bit.ly/4nXALga

#DowntownSeattle is buzzing again. 📊 Nearly 3.2M visitors in August 🏨 Hotel stays fully recovered 🏠 21% more residents downtown than pre-pandemic Seattle’s downtown future? More diverse, more resilient, more alive: https://bit.ly/3Iqv1wu

This weekend, take a moment to admire artwork with us. Thanks to the Office of Arts & Culture Seattle, the Civic Art Collection has grown since 1973 to include hundreds of public artworks and thousands of portable works, all commissioned through a community-centered process.: https://bit.ly/48lNEMH

Couldn’t be there? Or just want to feel it again? 💚✨ Rewatch the ribbon cutting that marked the official opening of Seattle’s new Waterfront Park — a once-in-a-generation milestone: https://bit.ly/46lSHd9

From gallery openings to dance performances to artist talks, Art + Culture Week is back, Saturday, Sept 20–27! 🎭🖼️ We’re so excited to support our creative community and celebrate all the ways art connects us. Come join in: https://bit.ly/46GiLkw! #ACW2025 #CelebrateCreativity

🗒️ Start your morning with coffee by the marina, wander the trail, say hi to the otters, grab chowder by the pier, and end your day with flowers and flying fish at Pike Place. The waterfront really is Seattle at its best: https://bit.ly/4mmyXMC #SeattleWaterfront #ThingsToDoInSeattle

Seattle, decades of vision brought us here. 💙 What was once the Alaskan Way Viaduct is now 20 acres of Waterfront Park—for everyone. Friends of Waterfront Park is proud to help steward this space, keeping it vibrant and welcoming for generations alongside Seattle Center and our community.

Need inspiration to create our Waterfront Park Grand Opening Celebration schedule? @kiro7seattle.bsky.social has you covered: https://bit.ly/3K8C3WT

#Vashon residents, King County Water Taxi is providing a special service to get you to and from our Waterfront Park Grand Opening Celebration. ⛴️ Check out Metro's blog for the details: https://bit.ly/4g4GspG

Big thanks to Secret Seattle for shining a spotlight on the Grand Opening Celebration of Seattle’s new 20-acre Waterfront Park! 🎉 Their latest feature dives into everything happening on Sept. 6 from parades and live music to food trucks, beer garden, and more: https://bit.ly/46in7y0

Big thanks to the King County Parks team for joining our philanthropy team on a tour through Waterfront Park! We’re celebrating what’s possible when community, stewardship, and public space come together. 🌊🌳 #SeattleWaterfront #SeattleParks #KingCountyParks