page_title: Pike Street
section_title: Retail and tourism
hierarchical_section_title: Pike Street / History and culture / Retail and tourism
caption_attribution_description: The Downtown Seattle Penney's store in May 1982, just after its closure. This view is looking west on Pike Street at Second Avenue, and the Pike Place Market sign is visible in the background. The former J.C. Penney department store building, which had been built in 1930, was demolished in 1989.
context_page_description: Pike Street is an east-west street in Seattle. It extends from Pike Place above Seattle's saltwater waterfront at Elliott Bay through Downtown Seattle, across Capitol Hill to the freshwater shore of Lake Washington at Lake Washington Boulevard. A segment less than a block long exists at Alaskan Way on Elliot Bay, connected to the rest of the street only by the pedestrian Pike Street Hillclimb; the bottom of the hillclimb under the Alaskan Way Viaduct was the original shoreline of the city before major modification and construction of the Seattle Seawall. It is included in the south-to-north mnemonic "Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest" for the street layout of Seattle.
context_section_description: 5th Avenue and Pike is the heart of the Seattle downtown shopping district, the Pike–Pine retail corridor, which includes Westlake Center and Pacific Place, both of which are on blocks touching Pike Street. Smaller notable retail establishments on the street include historic landmark 
  Coliseum Theater (the city's first movie theater) and Monorail Espresso (the world's first espresso cart, now in a permanent location), both downtown; and Elysian Brewing Company and Elliott Bay Books either on the street or on blocks bounded by the street on Capitol Hill. The original REI store was also on a Capitol Hill block bounded by Pike and Pine until it relocated in the 1990s. The intersection of Pike and Broadway on Capitol Hill is the south end of another business district represented by the Broadway Improvement Area, authorized by city ordinance.
  The Washington State Convention Center straddles Pike Street at 7th Avenue and the two sections are spanned by a skybridge crossing over Pike, the convention center's "signature element" but one that was controversial when built, due to its obstruction of views of Elliott Bay from Capitol Hill, and other architectural and public space considerations.
caption: The former J. C. Penney store at Pike at 2nd in 1982, with Pike Place Market in the background
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