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>> Bill radke here with Kyle Griffith, owner of the Seattle great wheel.
And Kyle, you started up this wheel along with your dad, who has been on this pier for 50 years?
>> Yeah.
It's truly a team effort to have the wheel here.
My dad and my brother and I all worked together here on the pier.
And we've been here for a lot of years.
>> Your dad started out with a fish and chips spot?
>> Yep, back in the '60s, when this was the old Milwaukee railroad warehouse, essentially, and the waterfront was a lot different back then, it was much more industrial and kind of a red light district.
And you know, it's the need to have it really change and become a tourist destination as well as a place where local Seattleites can come and enjoy it.
>> Well, we've been talking about all the change on the waterfront.
That's part of the reason the wheel is here, right?
>> Correct.
When we started really understanding the scope of the construction work that we'd be facing for really almost the next decade, we thought it would be important to have something that would be kind of a Beacon to let us, let everybody know we're open, and you know, the businesses, the aquarium next door, and all the businesses down here are going to be open even with the construction.
And the city has actually done a pretty good job of putting in parking where they can.
And they're working with us to try to keep access open for anybody who would like to come down.
>> You know, all those TV and network TV Super Bowl shots, pretty good publicity.
>> Yeah.
It was so fun.
We're all season ticket hold user, we have been even back in the Kingdome days.
So you know, to be able to have the wheel lit up in green and blue during that whole run, and fox carried it on the national shows, and the people in San Francisco saw it when they played up here.
And I had a lot of friends tell me it was shown a lot.
So it was really neat to have that be on the TV.
>> Kyle Griffith, owner of the Seattle great wheel.
We're on.
And it will be open through all the plowing on the waterfront.
Kyle, thank you.
>> We'll be open.
Come on down.
Thanks a lot. 00:02:11.000, ∂∂