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As was reported on this site last summer, the Bullitt Foundation had been planning to replace the small C.C. Attle's building with "a building that performed a series of technically rigorous functions in geology, hydrology and solar applications."
With the first design review scheduled for this week, we've got our first look at what they were talking about:
It's a hyper-efficient five-story office building. Overall the project would go beyond the standard 65' height limit for that property, including an extra 10' to allow more daylight into the five stories.
The preferred design outlines three separate commercial spaces at ground level with entrances off of 15th, and entrance to the offices up the hill on the Madison side:
The roof and south wall along Pike Street hold a ton of solar cells, good for up to 261,000 kilowatt-hours per year. The average single-family house consumes about 60,000 kilowatt-hours per year, so that would be enough to power more than four homes.
The developer is also exploring whether they could turn that block of 15th Avenue into a park boulevard, and remodel the small triangular McGilvra park across the street there to include different plants, more seating, and "an innovative wastewater and stormwater treatment system for the overall project."
You can learn more and put in your comments at the design review this Wednesday.
Oh, sorry. You're a chicken rancher? Our bad. 15th Ave's The Cherry Hill Urban Farm is hosting a chicken coop building party and BBQ potluck on Saturday. We checked in with Scott Allison, one of the farm's organizers, about the event -- sounds like a fun way to get into the hyperlocal food thing and meet some future farmers of America types, Seattle style. They'll also have chicken coop experts on hand to help you build your own.
Photo: Cherry Hill Urban Farm
We are going to have an all day event (9am-9pm) at our urban farm on Cherry Hill this Sat. So if you are sustain-ably minded, a gardener, an urban farmer or would simply like to attend a fun gathering for those in the local area please stop by.We really hope to be building several coop, live chickens, live music, a nice BBQ and potluck and a few good spirits among us here on the new urban farm in Capitol Hill. We are going to be hosting other sustainable events throughout the year
The chicken coop will be built here on Sat and if you want to get the guidance of professional builders and can bring your own materials we will have what it takes to put them together.
( please let us know if you want to build your own coop on Sat so we can make arrangements) .
We will have a contest for the best coop if we get several being built! :)
We are still seeking out chickens too so that would be nice if anyone wants to thin their flock, bring them by!
We are still seeking out music so....... a potluck dish and or a small donation would be nice.
Hope to see ya here !
No permits are currently required in Seattle to add a coop to your -- or a friendly neighbor's -- property but city laws limit you to three outdoor pets per household so choose wisely. Urban chicken ranching is part of the city's history -- Seattle Times wrote up Seattle as urban chicken coop center of universe way back in 2002. You can also check out http://citychickens.com/ for more info on keeping your flock thriving. We recommend vigorous raccoon defense given some of the anecdotes we've been the unfortunate recipient of over the years.
Cherry Hill Farm is located at 1127 15th Ave out in the rural area just beyond Radio Point down Central District way.
Our partners in the Central District are reporting on a major SWAT operation going on around a home near 25th24th and Denny tonight .
It started at 5:46pm as a "suspicious" call from what sounded like a detective. A few minutes later he as for more units to respond, and announced that they had a house surrounded.
It appears police were after a felony warrant suspect, and that man ended up barricading himself in a house there in the 1800 block of 24th.
Update: Things got more serious around 6pm when a witness told police they had seen a shotgun in an upper window recently
Update x2: Homicide detectives also involvedUpdate x3: "We did see the suspect run inside, so we do know he's there"
UPDATE 9:00 PM:
No word on what the suspect is wanted for. Some more notes from CDNews comments -- all unverified:
- "There were some U.S Marshals there as well, Denny to John, 23rd to 25th all blocked off.at least 15 Cop cars"
- "I live at 25th an Denny and from I heard from the cops is that someone was shooting out of their house, which is the white one right one the corner of 24th and Denny. about 20-30 minutes ago I was watching SWAT and a negotiator get ready to go up to the house. This is a big police presence and I am interested in seeing how this turn out. Hopefully not like the standoff in Leschi."
- "Arrived home at 25th & Denny at 6:30pm to about 6 police officers looking up the hill towards 24th, with Denny closed off, but 25th open. It's 9:00pm now, and Denny, 25th, 24th, & Howell are all closed off, with huge Police Tractor Trailer blocking all of 25th. Looks like they have every street & alley blocked, in case the guy makes a run for it..."
UPDATE 9:40 PM:
CDNews has info on the suspect but nothing on scale with this response tonight. From the scanner chatter, it sounds like the situation is quieting down and might be ending soon.
UPDATE 9:48 PM:
Officers on the perimeters and on traffic control duty have been released. It looks like the scene is being cleared. We haven't heard anything about any arrests so looks like they weren't able to capture the suspect.
I was walking around the hill yesterday, during the officially warmest January in Seattle, when I came across Rondo the Tree on Union Street just off of 19th Ave.
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A man so high on cocaine and wine that he needed to be hospitalized after being arrested was chased down by customers of nearby Tougo Coffee as he made his getaway after burglarizing 18th Ave boutique Gossamer Collective. The colorful details of the bust come from Tweets reported by the Central District News blog:
mgrummer tweets that it was Gossamer Collective which lives in the spot just south of Tougo. He says that he and other Tougo customers helped apprehend the perp: "I was there this am right after it happened. Another customer followed as the guy took off w/ the goods & directed patrol officers over the phone as to the thief's location"
Here's what SPD had to say about the incident:
On 11/19/09 at 6:35 a.m., officers were dispatched to a Burglary alarm at a business in the 1400 block of 18th Av.
A witness reported that the alarm was sounding and someone was inside the store. The store was burglarized earlier and it was unknown if an employee was inside.
Upon officers arrival witnesses reported that a male suspect left the store via a broken window, carrying merchandise. A description of the suspect was broadcast over SPD radio and within minutes an officer located the suspect running near 15th Av and Spring St.
The suspect was arrested and taken into custody without incident. The suspect was positively identified by 2 witnesses.
The suspect was then transported to Harborview Medical Center as he was having an adverse reaction to taking too much cocaine and wine. All the stolen property was recovered.
Upon release from the hospital, the suspect will be booked into King County Jail for Investigation of Burglary.
CHS received this warning tonight in an e-mail forwarded to us from the Madrona Moms mailing list:
just want to give a heads up, one of my friends was mugged at Pine between 23 and 24th just two nights ago. copys say it's been a string of muggings in the area. a group of teenage boys and one girl hide in the bushes and then knock down the victim.
We'll see what we can find out about the report of a 'string of muggings' -- did find this incident at the end of September in which a pizza delivery employee was robbed near the location of this report.
The residents of McKinney Manor senior housing are picketing this Sunday morning at 19th and Madison in protest of what they say is chronic neglect of their housing by the manor's owners, Mt. Zion Baptist Church.
The senior group says it has been asking for help from city agencies since March 2008 because of the lack of repairs and leak problems in the building managed by Quantum Management.
Samuel B McKinney Manor is located at 1916 E Madison St across the street from Mt. Zion.
Photo credit: Yehudit Solomon
It's a busy night on the CHS calendar with an parking open house and a community council meeting among the activities to keep you moving on a Thursday evening. A new edition to Capitol Hill's weekly entertainments debuts tonight at Central Co-Op's Madison Market: Community movie nights at the market launch tonight with a free showing of Network. From IMDB: A TV network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor's ravings and revelations about the media for their own profit. A neighborhood news blog would never do that.
Flick starts at 7p.
On Twitter this morning, Justin Brotman, Healeo's owner, reported the following: "Someone picked our back lock last night and stole our deposit and cash register money. Tonight we will have an alarm and me sleeping inside." We reached out to Seattle Police Department spokesperson Mark Jamieson and confirmed that the burglary is thought to have occurred sometime between 10 pm last night and 10:30 a.m. this morning. An estimated $700 was taken from the till.
Sheri Lavigne's inspiration for Calf & Kid, the cheesestore she plans to open at the Pearl later this year, is the Bedford Cheese Shop located in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.
This spring, CHS reported that cheese shop The Calf and Kid was making plans to open its business on 12th Ave near the Northwest Film Forum. That plan was not executed. And Sheri Lavigne's hunt for a location down in I-5 Shores didn't pan out either. So don't count your curds just yet but it sounds like Calf and Kid finally has a home lined up. In an interview with CHS's own Seadevi, Lavigne said she's got the financing in place to open her shop in The Pearl building at 15th and Madison. Her neighbors will be Anchovies & Olives, newly moved-in plant purveyor Envy and CHS sponsor Healeo. Now, all Lavigne needs to do is sign the lease. (if this plan changes, no more updates until we have Calf & Kid cheese in our mouths!). Target for opening is a leisurely (easy for us to say) "before Thanksgiving." Watch for the full interview from Seadevi later this week.
Every time I go to Madison Market, I check out with a bad taste in my mouth. The checker is there, watching me to see if I take a bag so they can punish me with a surcharge. It's annoying. It doesn't make me bring my own bag - it just makes me annoyed with Madison Market and the holier-than-thou crowd.
This is from a guy who drives a car that gets 35+ miles to the gallon. I bring bags to the store - when I haven't used them all for garbage bags. I am seriously concerned about global warming. But I am thoroughly annoyed by grocery bag fees.
I will be protesting the Block Party Crashers in spirit this weekend. This tax is a bad idea. It won't impact the amount of garbage Seattle hauls in any significant way (i.e. changing weight or volume by more than 1%), and it gives people who are on the fence about environmentalism a really bad feeling about it - by giving them an annoying reminder of the "nanny state" every time they check out.
Ways we could *actually* make the city greener:
- tax gasoline
- charge people a congestion tax on the freeway
- increase fees for garbage collection
- Increase electricity fees and give a fixed rebate back to low-income households
- Increase natural gas fees and give a fixed rebate back to low-income households
- pay people to not cut down large trees on their properties
If you could get just one green initiative passed per year - just one thing that would make the world greener - this is it? It'll take 1,000 years at this rate!
February of last year saw hundreds of us converging on Mount Zion Baptist Church, at 19th & Madison, for the Democratic Caucus. It's time to go there again, this time for a more local political purpose. Some Central District neighbors and I have arranged a combined Central District & Capitol Hill election forum, which is being co-sponsored by (among others) the Capitol Hill Community Council and the East District Council.
At the forum, which will be on Monday July 27th from 6 to 9 PM, you'll be able to submit questions to all the candidates for Mayor and City Council and for the local School Board position, and hear how they cope with them. If your question doesn't get pulled out of the hat, you should be able to grab the candidates before and afterwards to grill them. All the details of the election forum are posted here, together with flyers for you to share. Here's the approximate schedule, in case you can only come for part of the event:
6:00 Start: 5 minutes Welcome (Pastor), 5 minutes intro etc.
1) 6:10 School Board position 5: Cullen, Helmstetter, Bass, Smith-Blum
2) 6:35 Council position 2: Conlin, Ginsberg
3) 6:50 Council position 6: Kaplan, Licata, Israel
4) 7:10 Council position 4: Bagshaw, Tobin, Carver, Plants, Bloom
5) 7:35: Council position 8: O'Brien, Williams, Forch, Miller, Royer, Rosencrantz
6) 8:05 Mayor: McGinn, Donaldson, Nickels, Mallahan, Garrett, Drago, Campbell, Sigler
7) 9:00. Thanks. Disband.
This is an all mail election: ballots mailed out around July 30th - return them by August 18th. Registration by mail, and address changes, deadline was July 18. If you are not registered in Washington State you may register in person by August 3. For more information see: http://www.kingcounty.gov/elections/registration.aspx or call 206-296-VOTE (8683)
Because certainly you can't get too many updates on Pony (CHS reviews) and news about bars with decks on Capitol Hill: The observant and/or Madison-traveling may have noticed that not only does the soon-to-be new home of Pony have a new sign, there's also some construction going on.
The DPD permit describes the work thusly:
Change of use from retail to drinking establishment and construct deck/fence addition to existing commercial building, and occupy per plans.
The $34,000 project will add yet another new outdoor drinking option on the Hill for our sunnier-than-typical Seattle summer.
Pony was born as a temporary replacement for the doomed Cha Cha space on Pine. You can read many odes to its past glories, here. Its new location was previously the home of Acacia Florist. The new Pony is slated for an early August opening.
The project slated for 1222 E. Madison -- the current home of Precision Tune -- is up for its second design review tonight after the board rejected initial plans for the mixed-used development last month:
In the end, a divided board did not grant its recommendation despite saying much in praise of the project. But concerns over the 13th/Madison corner compelled the board to request the developers address that aspect of the design and present an update at a future public hearing. Specifically, the board didn’t like the concave entry and asked the developer to look at more asymmetrical and different shapes.
CHS contributor Josh Mahar had this to say about the project's initial design:
The architects are Bellevue-based Baylis Architects. I can't say it's a standout project but it seems nice. Earlier I was worried that keeping the parking within the structure would inevitably make it ugly, but they massed the garage in the back of the building so it's hidden from the street. Also, the limited parking will hopefully keep these units affordable (they claim in the proposal that this will be workforce housing). Due to earlier feedback they also shrunk the retail spaces, allowing for between four and six different spots. Check out the full proposal here [3.45mb].
The board will decide if the new design passes muster tonight at 6:30 PM at the Montlake Library.
I went to shop for groceries at Madison Market earlier today and found them closed until further notice. My suggestion is that you call (206-329-1545) before you hike over there for your groceries. The nearest grocery stores to Madison Market are the Safeway on 15th and the Trader Joe's & Safeway on Madison Street.
Earlier today, I spoke to Scott Reichert, the owner and manager of C.C. Attle's (a/k/a Men's Room), located at 1501 East Madison about Bullitt's plans to build a green, living building at the site. Scott stated that he expects to remain at the current site for at least the next year. Moreover, he emphasized that Bullitt (the building owners) have been great to work with - and that in fact, he had just received a lease extension.
I posted this story over at CDNews about an article in the Daily Journal of Commerce today, which says that the Bullitt Foundation plans to develop the C.C. Attle's site at 15th and Madison into a "uniquely Northwest building" that performs "a series of technically rigorous functions in geology, hydrology and solar applications."
http://centraldistrictnews.com/2009/06/16/cc-attles-site-to-be-developed-by-bullitt-foundation
Brief update on the Madison shots-fired story we followed over the weekend. Confirmed this morning that nobody was shot and that police believe the man with the gun shot into the air during an altercation in the parkling lot across the street from Chop Suey and the Electric Tea Company on Madison. Four people were arrested at the scene but only one was booked into jail -- the other three were interviewed and released. The arrested man was booked for illegally carrying a firearm and possession of marijuana.
Saturday night around 11:25 PM, 911 callers reported that a man had started shooting during a fight near the Electric Tea Garden. At least one caller reported that a victim had been hit while other callers reported seeing only a man firing three shots in the air.
UPDATE: 10:48 AM - SPD confirms that there were shots fired last night in the 1300 block of East Madison around 11:15 PM. SPD tells CHS that four people were detained, a gun was recovered and at least one of those people were arrested though details of the specific arrest or arrests was not available at this time. SPD was also unable to provide information about the cause or victims at this time. SPD did say that the Gang Unit is investigating this incident.
From the archive of last night's police scanner archive activity, multiple reports of shots fired came in to 911 last night around 11:30 PM. Callers said somebody started shooting during an altercation near the Electric Tea Garden. At least one caller reported that a victim had been hit while other callers reported seeing only a man firing three shots in the air. The man was only described as black and in his 20s.
The King County Jail registry system shows one man booked overnight for investigation of drive-by shooting. It is not yet clear if that booking is related to the Madison incident.
ORIGINAL POST:
Two unconfirmed reports of shots fired last night on Madison around 14th or 15th Ave. First, from an e-mail tip we received around 11:30 PM last night:
I think gun shots were fired near the taco time on Madison around 15th. 3 or 4 cracks/pops then shit load of cop cars about 5 minutes later. They are still there.
And also this from Twitter from about the same time:
@toastercookie: seattle u public safety reporting shots fired at 14th and madison
Nothing about injuries in information at hand. The 911 logs don't show any response to the area at that time but those reports only show medic and fire response, not police. There is, however, a big medic response for an assault with weapon in the logs last night at the same time in Lake City that we'll ask about.
UPDATE: 10:30 AM - Just heard back from Seattle Fire Department that they won't be able to provide information about the Lake City 911 incident until Monday morning so still waiting to hear back from SPD. In meantime, I have archives from last night's scanner activity that I'm checking out now.
There will be a final design review meeting for 2026 E Madison St, the old site of Deano's, on May 6th at Seattle Central. Dominic Holden recently wrote a nice piece about this site, but I thought I would do a little more analysis on the project here on CHS.
First the project details: 222 residential units, 9,576sq ft retail, and 229 below grade parking spaces. As always, the parking seems excessive, but at least it's underground.
This project, along with the old Twilight Exit site across the street, and another lot south at 23rd and Union, are all being developed by prominent local architect Jim Mueller. Mueller is perhaps best known for his work with Vulcan in South Lake Union. He's had a hand in pretty much all recent development down there, including two projects I have found refreshing, 2200 and Alley 24. As Central District News relates, Mueller has gone above and beyond the Design Review to engage the community about his developments, which is always nice. The design for this building was done by Weinstein AU (of Agnes Lofts at 12th and Pike)
The design calls for a 6-story structure with a public courtyard in the center. The courtyard will be accessible from a double-height passthrough on Madison, as well as two East-West breezeways that approximate the alley that ran through the site. There will be four or five retail spaces, which will mainly face Madison but will wrap around a bit onto E. Denny street. Most spaces will also have entrances from the courtyard area. The rest of the ground floor will be two-story walk-up townhomes with street entrances, as well as courtyard entrances. Both the townhomes and the public courtyard seem pretty ambitious to me, based on the history of the location, and I really applaud them for that. They could have done something like the Summit at Madison Park, with a fotress-like wall facing 23rd and a single, huge retail space.
For more info on development in this area, check out Andrew Taylor's very informative google map.
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The equivalent of a puppy Amber alert has been issued for Payton, a young Schnoodle reportedly taken from a car parked in the back lot of Piecora's on Saturday night while the dog's owners dined inside. Here is part of the note from Payton's owner posted to the West Seattle Blog:
Our 10mth old puppy, Payton (named after the Glove. In honor of my lost and beloved Sonics), was stolen from our car tonight while we were dining at Piecora's. He is a Schnoolde (Schnauzer/Poodle mix) and weights 13.5 lbs. We were parked in their back lot and planned to go to the Beverage Place in W. Seattle afterwards as they allow dogs. I had to talk my wife into letting him come as I felt bad locking him back up after working all day. The camera [footage] literally shows them pull up, throw a boulder through our window, grabbed him and go.
Payton's owner is offering a reward for the dog's safe return.
Purebred Schnoodle puppies are for sale for $650 on this breeder's Web site. There is currently no law in the city that prohibits leaving a pet inside a vehicle during typical Seattle temperatures.
UPDATE 3/30/09 9:30AM:
Payton the Schnoodle is back home. The dog's owner tells West Seattle Blog the stolen pup was found wandering the streets of Federal Way this morning:
I don’t even know how to describe what happened in the last 28 hours or so but my wife and I are in total disbelief. We just got our beloved Payton back. Apparently sometime around 9am this morning the thieves dropped him on a busy 4 lane road in Federal Way. 2 ladies on their way to church saw him and picked him up. They posted some ads around Federal Way but saw the clip on KOMO and called it in.
The owner also had some nice words for Piecora's. "The owner’s of Piecora’s were so helpful and caring and deserve a lot business their way. The owner came in (Sunday) just to get me the footage that SPD decided to ignore (as it was just a theft of “personal property”) so we could get it on air and out to people."
