A worker strolls the Jefferson Park Reservoir under construction on Beacon Hill. The reservoir will hold 50 million gallons of water. Dan DeLong/Seattle Post-Intelligencer ...

Seattle is in negotiations to buy an entire block on Beacon Hill to create a new park. The City Council voted Tuesday to authorize the $5.5 million purchase of the mostly empty block at 17th ...

The land atop Beacon Hill has been a road median, a streetcar trackway and now a winding walkway. Here's how this strip of magic in South Seattle came to be.