Lower Queen Anne, Seattle

Uptown (Lower Queen Anne)
Neighborhood
View of Lower Queen Anne from Queen Anne Ave. N. and W. Republican St.
Map of Uptown's location in Seattle
City	Seattle
Area
• Total	0.62 sq mi (1.60 km2)
Population
• Total	10,765
• Density	7,969/sq mi (3,077/km2)

Lower Queen Anne is a neighborhood in northwestern Seattle, Washington, at the base of Queen Anne Hill. While its boundaries are not precise, the toponym usually refers to the shopping, office, and residential districts to the north and west of Seattle Center. The neighborhood is connected to Upper Queen Anne—the shopping district at the top of the hill—by an extremely steep section of Queen Anne Avenue N. known as the Counterbalance, in memory of the cable cars that once ran up and down it.

In early April 2021, the Seattle City Council passed a resolution that officially recognized changing the name of the area previously known as Lower Queen Anne to Uptown.

While "Lower Queen Anne" and "Uptown" are rarely used to refer to the grounds of Seattle Center itself, most of Seattle Center is in the neighborhood; these include Climate Pledge Arena (home of the Seattle Storm of the WNBA and the Seattle Kraken of the NHL), the Exhibition Hall, McCaw Hall (home of the Seattle Opera and Pacific Northwest Ballet), the Cornish Playhouse (home of the Intiman Summer Theatre Festival and Cornish College of the Arts), the Bagley Wright Theater (home of Seattle Repertory Theatre), and the studios for KEXP radio.

Lower Queen Anne also has a three-screen movie theater, the SIFF Cinema Uptown,^[1] and On the Boards, a center for avant-garde theater and music.