Olympia Opens to the Public After Its Kensington Rebuild

Seattle Public Schools, the City of Seattle and the Kraken-backed One Roof Partnership are replacing the 1947 stadium with a rebuilt open-air venue for school sport, concerts and community events, keeping and reframing the Memorial Wall that honours 762 local students and alumni killed in the Second World War. It is funded with $110 million of public money plus roughly $30 million raised privately.

London's city museum reopens on 28 November 2026 under a new name and in a new home: the derelict General Market beside Smithfield's meat halls, a Victorian market building left empty for decades and now rebuilt around its own ironwork and glazed dome. The move ends the institution's run at London Wall, where it had been hemmed in by a roundabout and reached by a walkway, and puts it at street level in a market that has traded on the site since the twelfth century.

The city-owned stadium in Franklin Park reopens after a rebuild that grew from a $30 million repair into a $325 million project, $135 million of it public money from the City of Boston and $190 million from the owners of Boston Legacy FC. The NWSL club will not play its first match there until 2028; Boston Public Schools athletics get the ground back first.

The first large public piece of Amtrak's phased rebuild of the William H. Gray III 30th Street Station: a restored concourse of shops and restaurants beneath the 1933 building, part of a redevelopment of nearly 500,000 square feet running to 2028.