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Design
Perspectives
 By Clair Enlow
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March 26, 2008

Design Perspectives: The center needs new friends — and neighbors

  • A new, more park-like center is staged to emerge. But so far, it's still an island.
    • By CLAIR ENLOW
    Special to the Journal

    The Century 21 Master Plan is making the comment rounds now, with solid ideas for rearranging and de-cluttering Seattle Center, the beloved fairground that has become the city's living room.

    This is not just a spruce-up. Like the last master plan for the center, it both affirms and re-imagines the place. It also carries a price tag of $676 million, and would require significant commitments from city government and taxpayers to pull off.


     
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