Earth Day 2024 in Seattle brings some hopefully material changes to the waste we create — and a few ideas for some garbage loopholes we might want to tighten up.
In Seattle, styrofoam takeout containers have been banned since 2009 but you still see the cheap but hugely wasteful packaging in use. The Seattle ban is now about to be taken more seriously as the rest of the state is finally catching up with a prohibition on single-use foam coolers and styrofoam coffee cups and clamshells going into effect this summer. Continue reading →
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Broadway gunfire: Police were searching for an intoxicated gunman who opened fire in a Broadway parking lot early Sunday morning. According to East Precinct radio updates, police were called to the parking lot next to Mud Bay and Capitol Hill Tobacco just after midnight to a report of multiple shots fired. Arriving officers found shell casings and possible damage but nobody injured. Police were searching for a suspect described as an intoxicated white male in a red hoodie armed with a chrome handgun who reportedly left the area in a newer model grey sedan. There were no reported arrests.
Condo garage gate smashup: The owners at the Plaza Del Sol Condominiums on E Olive Way next to CC’s are searching for the owner of a pickup truck that was caught on video smashing their garage gate Saturday night. The truck with a bed full of work tools can be seen smashing the gate as it reversed into the garage barrier for no clear reason before fleeing the scene. Security video also appears to have captured the license plate of the vehicle.
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Saturday’s meeting was the first Squire Park Community Council’s first since the pandemic began (Image: CHS)
As Seattle urbanists dissect the 20-year growth plan being championed by Mayor Bruce Harrell and are identifying where in the city his administration excised more ambitious development and density goals, the “Squire Park exception” has emerged.
How did the residential blocks between 12th Ave and the Central District’s Cherry Hill end up a protected swath of single family housing-dominated growth goals in the mayor’s proposed plan?
As effective as the group may be, don’t look directly at the Squire Park Community Council.
It had not met in five years thanks to COVID-19 and the pandemic — until Saturday. But the issues raised in the group’s first meeting by attendees and during a session with District 3 Councilmember Joy Hollingsworth fit very much with a slower approach to Seattle growth.
“The pandemic had a really devastating impact, I think, on many community councils, and particularly in Squire Park,” William Zosel, board member, told CHS. “One of the things that happened during the several years of absence is that two members died.” Continue reading →
The Country Doctor is now Seattle Roots Community Health. The community health center with facilities across Central Seattle and school-based health centers at Meany Middle School and Nova High School says the new name “honors over 53 years of serving the Capitol Hill and Central District neighborhoods with community-driven, culturally appropriate, patient-centered care regardless of their ability to pay.”
“As we’ve grown, we needed a new organizational name that builds on our legacy and encompasses all of our clinics and the broad range of care we provide,” the organization’s CEO Brandy Taylor said in a statement. Continue reading →
Listing: “The Egan House, with its stark geometric shapes and sleek black & white color scheme unapologetically emphasizes its stand-out qualities. While some details (floating staircase, open volumes,…) were aligned with a formal Modernist approach, others were imbued with romance and an art-first attitude.”
Spring 2024 seems to be a good season for those in the market for landmark-worthy homes for sale around Capitol Hill for under $1 million. The historic Egan House is now for sale along Lakeview Blvd E below the St. Mark’s greenbelt for $995,000.
The 1959-built modernist wedge was designated an officially protected city landmark in 2009 about ten years after preservation advocacy group Historic Seattle acquired the property in a $240,000 transaction.
The group says selling the Egan House now out of its portfolio fits in with its history of preserving and respectfully developing and improving properties, leasing them to generate income, and, eventually, selling them to reinvest the proceeds in the organization and new opportunities: Continue reading →
The 1908-built Curben Hotel on Summit Ave still stands after a fire Saturday morning required at least one person to be rescued during the response.
Seattle Fire was called to the 1700 block of Summit just south of Denny just before 6 AM to respond to an upper floor unit on fire in the three-story building.
Arriving firefighters performed a ladder rescue of at least one person. Seattle Fire reports they were treated at at the scene and in stable condition.
Crews were able to quickly bring the fire under control and a search revealed no additional victims.
It is not clear how many people will be displaced from the area of the building where the fire occurred in the longtime weekly-stay hotel.
The cause of the fire is under investigation, Seattle Fire reports.
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Capitol Hill has had a tough couple months when it comes to massive retail corporations and the financial woes of the drugstore industry but there is a small bit of good news for people who get their prescriptions filled at Broadway and Pine.
City construction permit paperwork indicates Walgreens is mounting an effort to remodel its Broadway store with a roster of upgrades including a 600-square-foot pharmacy expansion.
The project comes after competitor Rite Aidshuttered two Broadway stores including the Bartell Drugs in Broadway’s Harvard Market shopping center to end 2023 amid bankruptcy woes brought on in part by settlements in massive federal and state opioid lawsuits. Continue reading →
This July will mark a decade since the first recreational pot shops opened in Seattle so Saturday will brings the 10th “4/20” of legal cannabis in Washington.
Whoa.
If you are high enough to get lost in that math, enjoy. For the rest of you, the city’s cannabis retailers will surely be rolling out sales and promotions to help you celebrate.
Capitol Hill’s first pot shop didn’t debut until late in 2015 as tiny Ruckus“defiantly” opened just off 15th Ave E. Its tit for tat tussle with the larger Uncle Ike’s chain’s efforts on Capitol Hill is now the stuff of cannabis legend.
After 10 years Ruckus is still there and the Hill’s clusters of shops have grown to include two Ike’s locations and a new cluster of shops on E Olive Way including The Reef. Continue reading →
The Vito’s building burning last summer (Image: Seattle Fire)
New legislation being proposed by the Harrell administration would put the power to demolish vacant buildings that become magnets for squatters and drug use in the hands of Seattle City Hall.
The bill proposed by Mayor Bruce Harrell will be taken up by the Seattle City Council as officials hope to give Seattle Fire Department Chief Harold Scoggins new powers to “to take quick action to remedy derelict buildings that threaten the health and safety of our neighborhoods.”
The city says the number of vacant building fires has surged from 77 in 2021 to 130 last year including the massive blaze last summer that destroyed the First Hill building home to low-income apartments and Vito’s nightclub. That building had been shuttered for repairs following a previous smaller fire but had become popular with squatters and drug users. Continue reading →
