Downtown Spokane

Downtown Spokane Riverside
Neighborhood of Spokane
Downtown from the West
Coordinates: 47°39′27″N 117°25′14″W / 47.65750°N 117.42056°W / 47.65750; -117.42056Coordinates: 47°39′27″N 117°25′14″W / 47.65750°N 117.42056°W / 47.65750; -117.42056
Country	United States
State	Washington
County	Spokane County
City	Spokane
Area
• Total	0.99 sq mi (2.6 km2)
ZIP Code	99201, 99202

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.

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.

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.

Downtown straddles Sprague Avenue, which divides the city into North and South. On the eastern end of Downtown, Division Street splits the city into East and West. I-90 is elevated through almost all of downtown, often with parking lots underneath, but occasional blocks are solid cement, forming a barrier at the southern end of Downtown. Immediately south of the Interstate the high density area continues into a growing medical district with Spokane's two largest hospitals, Sacred Heart and Deaconess.

To the west is one of Spokane's oldest and densest neighborhoods, Browne's Addition. In the photo, Browne's addition is the treed area in the foreground on the right. The left side of the foreground is the valley cut by the Spokane river immediately downstream of the falls; this is the small and similar neighborhood of Peaceful Valley.