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

Victor Steinbrueck Park, overlooking Puget Sound at the north end of Pike Place ... its hills and the parking garage below had degraded — some questioned the poles’ place there.

but also what has prevented making Pike Place car-free in the past, including access for merchant loading and unloading, deliveries and disabled parking. Rachel Ligtenberg, the Market authority ...

SEATTLE — In 2019, the Pike Place ... north end of the Market. The park needed a complete overhaul to repair a degrading membrane between its grass hills and the parking garage below.