Westlake Center

Category:	Shopping Mall
Address:	400 Pine St, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Phone:	+1 206-467-1600
Site:	westlakecenter.com
Rating:	3.8
Working:	10AM–6PM 10AM–8PM 10AM–8PM 10AM–8PM 10AM–8PM 10AM–8PM 11AM–6PM

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Casey Penk

Westlake is altogether unpleasant. A lack of class combined with utterly questionable store choices makes this the kind of place you go until you know any better. The place has an unappetizing selection of gimmicky niche stores. Theres a brain store for.. brain games and toys. Didnt that fad die out in 2010? The only place of any merit is Daiso, which sells Japanese gimmicks that break after you use them once - but only, thankfully, cost a buck fifty. The food court consists largely of knock-off "ethnic" cuisine a la Panda Express. See! Seattle is multicultural. Before the recent remodel, they also had hawkers selling cell phone cases (a necessity in any rundown establishment). This place is truly incredible. The mall cops are rude. I was here charging my phone once and they lectured me about this being private property. Okay, buddy. We all know how your trickle-down economics worked. If youre a tourist absolutely desperate for a neck pillow, you can probably find one here. Actually, if youre a tourist, youll probably come here regardless of what I say, if only to remind you of home. Yep, Seattle is just as monotonous and shallow as the rest of the country.

Rose Pacheco

My friend and I came here to kill time while waiting to meet another friend for dinner. We went to Sephora then walked over to West Lake Mall and bought some stuff at Daiso and Lush. We realized both of our phones were about to die and we still hadnt pinned down a meeting place with our 3rd friend. We saw an open outlet and plugged our phones in (in the mall). After about a minute of sitting there a security guard came up to us and said if we dont get out he would call the police and that charging our phones there was illegal. Idk why he was being so hostile. We both had backpacks because we had been hiking then passing through Seattle on the way home but that seems normal in Seattle. My friend and I then started to put both our shopping and are phone charges in our backpacks. He barked at us to go faster. I then started explain the situation. But the security guard ignored me and called for back-up. My friend and I just left the mall and went to different stores. If the mall doesnt want people charging their phones they need to get electrical covers. Im also uncertain why he was behaving so strangely.

Nathan Hart

Essentially a small scale mall in the heart of downtown Seattle. While its proximity to other shops and sights makes it important, as does the monorail station on its third floor, there is really no reason to come here. Completely surrounded by high end shops and restaurants, youre more likely to walk past what youre looking for on your way to the mall than find it in Westlake Center. That being said, they go out of their way to add holiday cheer during the winter season, and Westlake Park, immediately outside of the mall, hosts the Christmas tree lighting, a merry-go-round, and other festive scenery. During the summer, food trucks park here and crowds of chess playing urbanites can be found. While sympathetic to their plight, there can be a massive homeless population in the park and around the mall that can be very aggressive panhandlers.

Robin M

Most of what I used to love about Westlake Center is now gone. It went from a well-loved local shopping hub to an unattractive and mostly barren waste-land. From open and airy to closed-off and claustrophobic. You can still find Nordstom Rack in the basement corner off the plaza and there are a few interesting stores inside, but it is far from the vibrant hub it was 10 years ago. FOOD COURT: CLOSED for remodel. The food court (before they closed for remodel) had dwindled down to a few sad shops that were trying to stick it out. I really hope that the new version will be better. I still LOVE the outside plaza for events and activities and general people watching, and am hopeful that the remodel of the top floor will bring vibrancy back.

Oj Bradshaw

This security company needs to get their officers straightened out ASAP. The treatment of the innocent man that got maced is absolutely UNacceptable from any kind of human standpoint. Fire the offending officer. Period. Pay attention to whats actually going on where you are supposed to protecting people -- not harassing or terrorizing them. Publicly APOLOGIZE for what has been done to these victims. Let the nation know that you recognize these awful mistakes (if you can call it that) that have been made & that you will take real, human steps to remedy them. Take the high road. Stop being cowards.

Joshua Rechtien

A desperate, antiquated structure that represents the shopping experience of another era, when internal malls were all the craze. Now, this place is just a collection of extremely niche shops. The only thing going for this shopping center is the monorail station, but even thats just a gimmick that serves a singular purpose, to charge tourists a fee to move them from one part of the city to the space needle and back again. Not worth your time or energy. Youre a tourist who parked near Pike Place Market and want to go to the Space Needle? Ok, then visit here.

Elyse Alegria

In the past, this was a great place to find lots of different types of food at the food court. Theyve closed the food court now and have way less stores than they did when the metro level wasnt a Nordstrom Rack. Its a smaller, quieter shopping center than others, but there isnt too much to look at. Fireworks, Made in Washington, and Daiso are the hidden treasures. The bigger stores only push out any interest of looking at the smaller ones. Hopefully, whatever renovations theyre making will improve the mall. Until then, visit but have little expectation.

Takashi Merken

Sadly not what it used to be. That wonderful inside shot of the place being a grand Japan like style mall with the center open? Gone, they filled it up with stores and so instantly lost all of its character and appeal to me. Also many of the good stores have since left. Only place worth visiting is the Japanese Dollar store on 2nd level and the Starbucks outside. Now the main use of this place is a transit hub for the light rail, street car, monorail, and buses. All of which are clean and secured, so its safe. Just skip the mall parts of this mall.

Victor K.

This place changes a lot. I like the new shops but it had many more in the past. Always had an escalators facing wrongly making shoppers go across to get next levels. They want us to see all shops. Lower floor always had junk places and is now only an outlet store. Middle floors are being redone and changes often so it isnt consistent to traditional shopping. My guess is the developers charge too high rents so only a few survive the quick turnovers. Even Norman Marcus left the building....

Amanda Herkshan

Its a neat spot to find fun stores and Daiso (Its a Japanese version of dollar store where all items are $1.50 unless marked otherwise.) is one of my favorites for frugal and sometimes more than decent solutions. The top floor is where tourists like to catch the Monorail to the Space Needle. It seems to be getting renovated or rearranged every other season, but there is always a spot to get a bite ranging from Subway to 4 or 5 star meals. Bathrooms are open to the public.

C. Waialeale

This review is as of my 7/28/2016 visit to this mall. Ive been here about 8 years ago and it was a great mall. I was a little discouraged now to see how the mall has changed. Most noticeable was the absence of eateries. On the same level as the monorail, there used to be a good assortment of eating places, but all have closed down except for one pretzel place. I used to be a nice place to eat after or before visiting the Space Needle. Too bad.