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Seattle's new Great Wheel. Photo via Ken Jones at KING 5 Seattle’s skyline is officially getting a new addition today as the Great Wheel — a 175-foot tall Ferris wheel sporting 42 climate-cont ...
“Tsunami waves could be as high as 42 feet at the Seattle Great Wheel and will reach inland as far as Lumen Field and T-Mobile Park,” Washington State DNR said in a tweet Thursday. The study ...
Vivian Chung This colossal, 175-foot-tall Seattle Great Wheel punctuates the city’s skyline and has become an iconic landmark in downtown Seattle since its opening in June 2012. A single ride in ...
Waves could last more than 3 hours and the department said that they could be as high as 42 feet at the iconic Seattle Great Wheel. Waves could overtake Lumen Field, the home of the Seattle ...
But Griffith, who dreamed of Seattle’s Great Wheel 30 years ago, isn’t content to rest on his laurels. The developer is at it again, partnering with two of his sons to launch their newest ...
Seattle's awaited Great Wheel opens to the public Friday, June 29 - and KING 5 got a sneak peak. KING 5 photojournalist Ken Jones rode the Great Wheel Wednesday, snapping shots of the city's ...
SEE MORE Police are looking for the person who flew a drone into Seattle’s Great Wheel yesterday. The crash happened around 4 p.m., according to this King 5 report above. Thankfully, there no ...
While it’s only been open for three short years, Seattle’s Great Wheel has become an iconic part of the city’s skyline—as have the 175-foot-tall attraction’s light displays, designed by Gerry Hall.
Otherwise, you will wait so much longer amidst the chaos of Seattle’s waterfront that, by the time you get to the “Great Wheel,” the prospect of locking yourself in a fish bowl with strangers will ...
“Our whole idea was to create an attraction that was a neat thing to make people want to come down to the waterfront,” said Griffith, vice president of Great Western Pacific Inc. The wheel ...
A Capitol Hill man accuses Seattle’s Great Wheel of discriminating against him and his date because they are gay. (Image courtesy 97.3 KIRO FM’s Erynn Rose) When Jason Jacobs and his date were ...
Kyle Griffith’s family owns the Great Wheel on Pier 57. The Griffiths have been in business on the Seattle waterfront since the 1960s. Now the family is hoping to build a gondola that would run ...