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Virgil Bogue had worked for Olmsted and was intimately familiar with the land in Seattle.

The Bogue plan had at its heart a grand civic center in Belltown and the Denny Regrade connected to the rest of the city by a rapid transit rail system, with a huge expansion of the park system, crowned by the total conversion of Mercer Island into parkland.

Striking in Bogue's plan is his grasp of the consequences of growth ; he foresaw that the city's residents would eventually number in the millions and that such a grand park or efficient transit system could put in place early in the development at much lower cost.