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Cure to bring finest meats and cheeses to Nagle edge of Cal Anderson Park

The transformation of Nagle Place from a utility corridor to a connective pedestrian plaza will see a pioneering first step this spring — and, with it, picnics at Cal Anderson are about to get a significant upgrade. The liquor license application for an intriguing new food and drink purveyor on Nagle Place went through and Seattle Met’s Jessica Voelker was first on the scene with the scoop on Capitol Hill’s Cure:

Specializing in charcuterie, cheeses “and everything that goes with them,” the bar is slated to open this spring—owners Amy and Erik (sic) Haldane signed a lease two weeks ago for the 750 square-foot space in the Broadway Building facing the park.

The Haldanes are a couple of Capitol Hill dining vets: Amy was a longtime Linda Derschang employee and is currently working at Grim’s; Erik (sic) is a mainstay at the Honey Hole.

(sorry for the sic marks — hate em. But license shows “Erik” as an “Eric” — hoping to delete all this if we find out the license info is incorrect)

Nagle, currently a parked-car (and scooter!) choked, lots of walls and no windows backside separating Broadway from Cal Anderson and the Bobby Morris playfield, is slated to be redesigned as a pedestrian plaza as part of the development of Capitol Hill’s light rail station. The farmers’ market will someday make its home there, possibly expanding its days of operation. The space, it’s possible, could extend Cal Anderson’s open feel to the buildings of Broadway and connect the thoroughfare, light rail station and park. Come 2016 when the station is slated to be open for operation, Cure will be a veteran of the food and drink scene. In the meantime, all this change should aid any efforts for the cozy bar to add elements like outdoor seating noted in the Met article.

Of more immediate concern, Cure represents further success in filling the Broadway Building’s new retail opportunities. With Rock Box also open now on Nagle and the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce also inhabiting the eastern, park-side of the building, the Broadway is encircled in new business. The front side should fill in more soon as Yogurtland moves in next to zpizza and Genki Sushi soon.

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Finish Tag
Finish Tag
13 years ago

And certainly no consensus on that idea. The pedestrian plaza part of Nagle will be between Denny and John.

Nagle Place will be the temporary home of the farmer’s market, because of the B of A redevelopment.

a chance
a chance
13 years ago

So you’re saying there’s a chance!

Siri
13 years ago

I’m pretty sure the temporary farmers market home is on Broadway in front of SCCC, not on Nagle Place.

jseattle
jseattle
13 years ago

The farmers market will move to Seattle Central in 2011 and will likely remain there until around 2016
http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2010/12/17/last-broadway-f

Once the light rail station is operational and the Nagle plaza area is ready to host the market — probably in 2016 — the plan being worked out calls for the market to move across Broadway:
http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2010/07/28/sound-transit-h

genevieve
genevieve
13 years ago

Nagle does not run between Denny and John. Do you mean the pedestrian plaza will be in the middle of the transit station? Or were you thinking of 10th Ave E between Denny/John? I’m sure that would be a bummer for the homeowners whose driveways currently open onto that street.

Kayzel
Kayzel
13 years ago

The area under discussion for the future Farmers Market is on the Nagle Extension, aka Nagle Plaza, created by future Sound Transit construction/development, and which will run between E. Denny Way and E. John. It might interest some to know that the existing Nagle Place, between E. Pine and E. Denny, was designated as a pedestrian walkway in the very first park master plan designs in 1995. The idea was shot down in very short order by SCCC and Bonney Watson Mortuary, both of which need Nagle Place for access.

Finish Tag
Finish Tag
13 years ago

nagle place extension would be above the subway station.

Paula Nagle
Paula Nagle
13 years ago

What Nagles are you related to i am looking for my fathers family I am on facebook as well