I often walk down the Buchanan mall, its shaded, and quiet from car noise. The perfect path to stroll north-south, but it’s capped by parking lots on both ends, and on the north side ends at a parking lot just two blocks from the other Buchanan mall in Japantown.

It almost feels like they were meant to connect. It would be amazing to have a 10-block long car free park street running down the center of the city, we’re so close! It could be so great.

Edit: I know both japantown and western addition were badly “urban renewed” - all I’m saying is that during this rebuilding they clearly thought of Buchanan as a pedestrian street, since so much of it in both Japantown and WA is closed to cars and is now plaza/park space (and sometimes just parking)

I was asking if perhaps the idea was for it all to be a park-like street, but the idea was just never finished. It’s too much of a coincidence, there’s also no buildings in the Buchanan street right of way, so it feels like it was meant to be connected when the whole neighborhood rebuilding took place.