Hotel Replacing Greyhound Station

Bus-Raymond%20Leowy-1940.jpg According to an email we just received and the permit application it linked to, Seattle's Greyhound Bus Station is ambling slowly and uncomfortably towards the end.

Design review early design guidance meeting for a 51 story, 1,200 room hotel, convention and meeting space (100,000 sq.ft.) with retail and restaurants at street level. Parking for 1,100 vehicles to be located below grade. Existing office structure and bus station to be demolished.

Right now we're not sure if this fits in the "everything cool in Seattle is being destroyed" category or the "good riddance" category. The last time we can remember being in front of Seattle's Greyhound station the Cloud Room still existed so obviously we won't really be much put out, however, a Greyhound Bus station seems like it's something that remains integral to a city's fabric, even in 2008. We'll be interested to see if and where it's relocated, anyway.

That 51-story, 1,200 room hotel would be the tallest hotel in Seattle.

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By Dan in News on January 29, 2008 10:03 AM

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jessejb

thats interesting...I should go look at it today. well, until I accidently step on a heroin needle.

brappy

The building is historically significant, though. It was built as the Seattle terminus of the Seattle-Everett interurban line in the 1920s. If you get a chance to look at the architectural details, it's kind of pretty.

z33bleoop

good riddance

John Knee

Yes, thank God for skyscraper city!

jessejb

haha nice to see a fellow SSC'er on here.

WaTransportation

The Greyhound station is slated to move to King Street Station in the Summer of 2008.

Reconstruction of King Street Station is slated to start in March with a full restoration of the interior on the main station floor. Offices will go in on the Second and third levels. The 4th level will be restored but stay vacant but there has been talk about a local model railroad club that would like to use that space.

There is also a faint possibility of tours going up to the clock tower. I've been up there a few times and the view is incredible though one hell of a climb.

King Street would be rebuilt and widened to allow the 45 foot coaches get in and out of the area. The drivers will have an option to use Occidental Avenue or 1st Avenue to the station. Occidental Avenue should start it's repaving project later this year as well in coordination with the project at King Street.

For those that do take Sounder into Seattle, you'll notice a lot of work going on where the old I-90 on ramp used to be at. The new tracks there will be used for new mainline relocation. The current tracks Amtrak will use and switching operations for Amtrak and Sounder.

BNSF and Sounder commuter trains will use the new mainline. The Sounder platform will be extended to allow longer or additional trains. A new platform is slated to go under 4th Avenue and "Main 2" which is further from the King Street 1 platform for Sounder. There has been talks in creating a walkway to access the International District Station.

Hope this helps.

Troy Morris

I have favorable memories, but it is a dump. I just wish we'd hurry up and finish remodeling the Amtrack station... it's been what? 10 years?

Weazul

I really can't think of a single thing I liked about the place the 15 minutes I spent in line with someone there. It would be hard for them to find some place that looked worse on the inside. It makes the seattle amtrak station (the inside) look like a 5 star resort.

jessejb

Im personally glad to see it go. Any replacement station will be an improvement. Theres nothing nostalgic about that place. Its actually kind of an insulting building for bus riders to have to be in.