Promenade Pop-ups @ Waterfront Park

📆 Wednesday, July 24th – Monday, September 30th, 2024
⏰  11 am – 5 pm on weekdays; 11 am – 7 pm on weekends
📍 Seattle Waterfront Park Promenade: Between Spring St and Seneca St on Alaskan Way

There’s always something going down at Waterfront Park. Between the gradual transformation of that stretch along Alaskan Way, you can pop into anything from free sunset salsa classes and guided meditations to qigong groups, basketball games, and cultural arts performances.

In case you haven’t heard, though, something new cropping up—or popping up—are the Promenade Pop-ups, bringing eight small businesses to Waterfront Park along the Park Promenade. Between Spring St and Seneca St, you’ll find these four kiosks with local vendors through the end of September. They’re hard to miss—each kiosk is covered in vibrant, colorful murals from two Indigenous artists, Cowlitz Tribal member Sarah Folden and Tlingit Tribal member Bill Pfiefer Jr..

Here’s the vendor lineup:
🛍️ Sweet Native Expressions (Navajo)
🛍️ CreNative Designz (Haida)
🛍️ Lunaraya
🛍️ Amano Seattle
🛍️ Nahom Artsy
🛍️ a kurious life
🛍️ Aguacate Colors
🛍️ Luna’s Jewelry & Accessories

The vendors for this pilot program were co-curated by Friends of Waterfront Park and program partners Seattle Restored (Seattle Good Business Network and Shunpike), as well as El Centro de la Raza. 

“The Promenade Pop-ups are a celebration of our community’s diversity and creativity,” says Joy Shigaki, president and CEO of Friends of Waterfront Park. “By providing a platform for small, BIPOC-owned businesses and local artisans, we are fostering economic empowerment and cultural exchange in this new world-class civic space slated to open in early 2025. This pilot program is just one of the many ways we are working towards our larger vision of creating a vibrant, inclusive, and dynamic Waterfront Park.”

Friends of Waterfront Park’s mission is creating, caring for, and activating a renewed place of connection on Seattle’s central shoreline.

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