WA-2025-008
Formula Grant
Overview
Grant Description
Application purpose: The Seattle Center Monorail has one terminus at Seattle Center within the Uptown Regional Growth Center and the other terminus at Westlake Center within the Downtown Seattle Regional Growth Center.
Transportation challenges in Uptown associated with large events at Seattle Center have been a focus of planning efforts for decades.
Large events include Folklife, Bite of Seattle, Pride Fest, Bumbershoot, Rock-n-Roll Marathon, and St. Patrick's Day Parade, with attendance of up to 60,000 per event, as well as sports and music events in the 17,000+ seat Climate Pledge Arena.
The Monorail is the only fast, efficient, grade-separated transportation option that traverses a highly congested stretch of roadway between the two centers.
This Seattle Center Monorail Station reconfiguration project will improve the Seattle Center Monorail Station to provide a fully accessible station consistent with Title II of the ADA as incorporated by Appendix A of 49 CFR Part 37 and usability by persons with disabilities, including individuals with mobility devices; incentivize public transit use; better connect it with the regional transit network; and regain surge capacity lost in previous years.
Activities performed: Review of previous feasibility study and concept development of design and implementation of designs that would improve accessibility for patrons of the legacy Seattle Center Monorail Station.
Expected outcomes: Provide equitable and streamlined access for all patrons.
Intended beneficiaries: Public transportation riders of the Seattle Monorail System.
Subrecipient activities: There are no subrecipients to this award.
Transportation challenges in Uptown associated with large events at Seattle Center have been a focus of planning efforts for decades.
Large events include Folklife, Bite of Seattle, Pride Fest, Bumbershoot, Rock-n-Roll Marathon, and St. Patrick's Day Parade, with attendance of up to 60,000 per event, as well as sports and music events in the 17,000+ seat Climate Pledge Arena.
The Monorail is the only fast, efficient, grade-separated transportation option that traverses a highly congested stretch of roadway between the two centers.
This Seattle Center Monorail Station reconfiguration project will improve the Seattle Center Monorail Station to provide a fully accessible station consistent with Title II of the ADA as incorporated by Appendix A of 49 CFR Part 37 and usability by persons with disabilities, including individuals with mobility devices; incentivize public transit use; better connect it with the regional transit network; and regain surge capacity lost in previous years.
Activities performed: Review of previous feasibility study and concept development of design and implementation of designs that would improve accessibility for patrons of the legacy Seattle Center Monorail Station.
Expected outcomes: Provide equitable and streamlined access for all patrons.
Intended beneficiaries: Public transportation riders of the Seattle Monorail System.
Subrecipient activities: There are no subrecipients to this award.
Awardee
Funding Goals
NOT APPLICABLE
Grant Program (CFDA)
Awarding Agency
Funding Agency
Place of Performance
Washington
United States
Geographic Scope
State-Wide
Related Opportunity
NOT APPLICABLE
Analysis Notes
Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 492% from $3,814,433 to $22,564,433.
City Of Seattle was awarded
Seattle Center Monorail Station Accessibility Improvement Project
Formula Grant WA-2025-008
worth $18,051,546
from the FTA Office of Budget and Policy in March 2025 with work to be completed primarily in Washington United States.
The grant
has a duration of 3 years 3 months and
was awarded through assistance program 20.507 Federal Transit Formula Grants.
$4,512,887 (20.0%) of this Formula Grant was funded by non-federal sources.
Status
(Ongoing)
Last Modified 4/7/25
Period of Performance
3/31/25
Start Date
6/30/28
End Date
Funding Split
$18.1M
Federal Obligation
$4.5M
Non-Federal Obligation
$22.6M
Total Obligated
Activity Timeline
Transaction History
Modifications to WA-2025-008
Additional Detail
Award ID FAIN
WA-2025-008
SAI Number
WA-2025-008-00-20.533
Award ID URI
SAI EXEMPT
Awardee Classifications
City Or Township Government
Awarding Office
6905A5 REGION 10 DOT FTA
Funding Office
693JJ8 OFFICE OF BUDGET AND POLICY(TBP)
Awardee UEI
V6NCY5EV6AY6
Awardee CAGE
383R1
Performance District
WA-90
Senators
Maria Cantwell
Patty Murray
Patty Murray
Modified: 4/7/25