Downtown Spokane

Downtown Spokane, officially the Riverside neighborhood, is the central business district in Spokane, Washington. Downtown Spokane's rough boundaries are I-90 to the south, Division Street to the east, Maple Street to the west, and across the Spokane River north to Boone Avenue. Bridges (some of them pedestrian-only) span the river at nearly every block.

Buildings

The Bank of America Financial Center, standing at 288 feet (88 m) tall, is the tallest building in Spokane. It was completed in 1981. The nearby Wells Fargo Center is the second tallest building (243 ft), and was completed in one year later 1982. Until 2006, with the construction of the Davenport Tower & Residences (an expansion of The Davenport Hotel), no other high-rise has gone up in Spokane.

Other significant buildings in downtown include the Spokane Convention Center, the INB Performing Arts Center, and the Spokane Arena.

Geography

The topography of Downtown Spokane is mostly flat except for areas downstream of the Spokane Falls which are located in a canyon. South of downtown slopes up to the South Hill, quite steeply in some places such as Pioneer Park, where long cliffs oriented east-west provide great views of the downtown, the North Side and Spokane Valley to the east.