Pike Place Market, Seattle, WA

With Karen Braitmayer of Studio Pacifica Ltd. as a sub-consultant, we are nearly completed with a Facility Accessibility Survey of 9 Market Buildings and 3 parking lots. The Market stalls and shops are in Historic Landmark Buildings, a series of interconnected buildings and other free-standing buildings. The street terrain of the site is at significantly different grades. The fact that the floor levels of these old, connected buildings do not align creates special accessible route challenges, with limited space to steep ramps into complying ramps. Our recommendations will help the PDA take advantage of existing accessible routes via existing elevators and greatly improve signage information to assist all users in finding routes through the Market, as is readily achievable.