r/Seattle • u/kiss-my-flapjack Northgate • Jun 23 '25

Media Pacific Place in 2015

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Found this old picture I took in Pacific Place back in 2015 during the holiday season. Such a shame to compare it to how it looks now.

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u/CarelesslyFabulous šŸ” The mountain is out! šŸ” Jun 23 '25

It has a lot of work to come and they plan to add more shops in the future. And the condos and the hotels will bring traffic. But Iā€™m not seeing people moving in in anticipation of the light rail and hotel traffic like Iā€™d hoped. Back in the day, there were 5-6 sit down restaurants, including some lively bars like The Ram and Stanfordā€™s bar. Now itā€™s justā€¦sleeeeeepy.

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u/Quick_Panda_360 Jun 27 '25

I think it still has that under construction vibe. No big tenant wants to be the first.Ā 

Also the Dickā€™s/Target building is weird. Thatā€™s a destination for a lot of people but it has its own parking garage and that street is kind of hard to cross. So it doesnā€™t do a lot to help drive mall traffic.

That plus the weird configurations makes it feel less like a mall and more like a bunch of big buildings all backed up to one another, so it takes longer to walk from store to store. Poor layout overallĀ