page_title: Alaskan Way Seawall
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Alaskan Way Seawall / History
caption_attribution_description: English: First slab of Seattle Central Waterfront seawall being placed, 1934.Item 8845, Engineering Department Photographic Negatives (Record Series 2613-07), Seattle Municipal Archives.
context_page_description: The Alaskan Way Seawall is a seawall which runs for approximately 7,166 feet along the Elliott Bay waterfront southwest of downtown Seattle from Bay Street to S. Washington Street.
  The seawall is being rebuilt in the 2010s as part of a waterfront redevelopment megaproject estimated to cost over $1 billion.
context_section_description: The seawall was built to provide level access to Seattle's piers and supports the Alaskan Way Viaduct and Alaskan Way itself, which is a surface street. Completed in 1934, the seawall was built on top of wood piling.
caption: First slab of Seattle Central Waterfront seawall being placed, 1934
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