PREVIOUS COVERAGE | Totem pole restoration project delays Pike Place Park opening In December 2022, the park closed for a two-year renovation project. Seattle Parks and Recreation said the renovations ...

The totem poles were a point of contention before Victor Steinbrueck Park's closure. The city and Pike Place Historical Commission have butted heads since then.

The overhaul of Victor Steinbrueck Park is finished, but a dispute over two totem poles has prevented it from reopening to the public.

Despite the park otherwise being ready for visitors as of November, it lacked a needed certificate of approval from the Pike Place Market Historical Commission - which required that the poles be ...

Until their removal in 2023, the poles marked the northern end of Pike Place Market — their back to Puget Sound, sentinels over the shoppers below. In 2018, several prominent Native voices in ...