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‘Hey, what should go in this space?’ — Calls from neighborhood to fill empty Kaiser Permanente Capitol Hill campus spaces being answered along 15th Ave

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Thanks to a CHS reader for the picture

Kaiser Permanente has responded to calls from the neighborhood to do more to fill the empty retail spaces of its Capitol Hill campus along 15th Ave. There is a new property management effort in place, a new coffee shop lined up to join the campus, and a survey process underway to shape what kind of businesses are courted to help fill in other spaces along this stretch of Capitol Hill.

CHS reported earlier this year on calls for Kaiser to do meet its requirements for activating its streetfront spaces from the citizen Implementation Advisory Committee that oversees the city’s Major Institution Master Plan put in place in 2018 after the health care provider’s takeover of Group Health.

The retail spaces lost tenants coming out of the pandemic and have remained empty for years.

A Kaiser Permanente spokesperson says it has now finalized an agreement with a firm to manage its “available retail locations,” saying Health Hospitality Partners is a healthcare amenities company “that works exclusively with hospitals and health systems to bring modern retail onsite.” Continue reading →

Capitol Hill Historical Society event brings author’s stories of early Seattle Jewish families to 15th Ave

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The Gaslight Inn

Treiger

Inspired by her new book exploring the paths of five families through the shaping of modern Seattle, the Capitol Hill Historical Society is hosting a special event with the author at a 15th Ave Capitol Hill landmark at the center of one of the stories.

The Capitol Hill Historical Society will host author Karen Treiger for an evening of local history and storytelling. The event, titled “Jewish Seattle in the Gilded Age,” will take place on Sunday, September 21st from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM at The Gaslight Inn, the historic bed and breakfast at 1727 15th Ave. Continue reading →

With two Capitol Hill stylists ready to make their own space, Mac and Milo’s Barbershop opening on 15th Ave E

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Mac and Milo’s (Image: CHS)

By Domenic Strazzabosco

A duo of Capitol Hill hair stylists are ready to set out on their own after building careers in the beauty industry’s mix of chain salons and rented chairs.

Alyssa “Aly Mac” McCowan and Myles McGehee are now ready to open their own three-chair studio on 15th Ave E, aptly named Mac and Milo’s Barbershop.

“I knew I always wanted to get up to the Hill for my business,” McGehee tells CHS. “I wanted to be in a part of the city where people actually live, not just the place where they come in and out of for work.” Continue reading →

Sign of the (medieval) times — Capitol Hill’s old Canterbury Tavern to be split in twain

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Preliminary renderings of the planned overhaul — the developers warn the ideas are “placeholders” and the design could change

The Fredonia building (Image: Meriwether Partners)

By Matt Dowell

Do you long for the Capitol Hill of old? When Amazon was for books and knights and dragons ruled?

Sorry, but the old Canterbury is about to be split — in twain.

Meriwether Partners, owners of the 118-year-old, three-story, 12-unit Fredonia building on 15th and Mercer, plan a renovation of the ground floor’s old Canterbury space. They’ll divide its 5,000 square feet in two distinct commercial units.

“The old Canterbury/Meliora space is quite large for an in-city restaurant these days,” said Joel Aslanian from Meriwether.

Meliora, which replaced The Canterbury in 2023, was unable to fill seats and closed within a year. Searching for a replacement, Meriwether found a couple potential tenants but nothing panned out.

Meriwether hopes the overhaul of the legendary pub will match both the current economic realities of the neighborhood and the latest in commercial tenants’ desires. Continue reading →

Fostering communities and open mics, Capitol Hill’s Hopvine Pub is turning 30

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Summer will end on Capitol Hill with one of the neighborhood’s most enduring beer institutions preparing to mark a significant milestone. In September, Hopvine Pub will celebrate 30 years of pouring craft beers, serving comfort food, and fostering communities and open mics at its 15th Ave location.

The story of the Hopvine is fully linked to Seattle’s craft beer revolution. When owner Bob Brenlin first opened the doors in 1995, the city’s beer landscape looked dramatically different.

“Back in ’95, we were one of the first places focusing exclusively on local microbrews,” Brenlin recalls, leaning against the well-worn bar that has borne witness to three decades of stories. Continue reading →

LOVECITYLOVE — ShopRite edition — joins effort to keep 15th Ave E active in long wait for redevelopment

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(Image: Love City Love)

(Image: Love City Love)

A Capitol Hill street living in limbo awaiting a wave of redevelopment.

An arts venue that has made its way through the liminal spaces created by the neighborhood’s relentless change.

It’s the perfect match.

You can add the everything you need and more spirit of dearly departed neighborhood convenience store ShopRite to the mix.

LOVECITYLOVE has landed on 15th Ave E.

The nomadic arts venture that has made its home in a variety of soon-to-be-demolished, destined-for-redeveloped storefronts across Capitol Hill and Seattle is now resident at 15th and Republican in the emptied out cornershop where ShopRite served the neighborhood for 30 years.

It is beginning its days on this new corner of the Hill with a schedule of open mics, sewing classes, and cafe hours. Continue reading →

20th anniversary HUMP! coming to Dan Savage’s neighborhood this weekend

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Capitol Hill’s very own Dan Savage is bringing a neighborhood Pride approach to this year’s 20th edition of his annual HUMP! film festival that was born in the days before “amateur” was the most popular category on Pornhub and has grown into a showcase of “unapologetically human, sex-positive short films—each five minutes or less—crafted by independent filmmakers and everyday people from around the world.”

With planned smaller neighborhood screenings in Seattle for the 20th anniversary year of the festival, of course the sex columnist/podcaster/film buff is bringing HUMP! to his home turf. HUMP! is coming to 15th Ave E’s Quality Flea Center this Saturday: Continue reading →

Stumps appear along Capitol Hill’s 15th Ave as Seattle needs help to quickly grow its tree canopy to 30%

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The nearly 50-year-old Norway Maples were dead and dying (Image: CHS)

As Seattle hopes to help cool its streets and sidewalks against global warming by achieving 30% tree-canopy coverage across every area of the city in the next twelve years, the new stumps along Capitol Hill’s 15th Ave are an example of the challenge — and the opportunity — in the numbers.

The old Norway Maples just removed from the sidewalk along the Capitol Hill Kaiser Permanente campus were dead — and had been for years. Planted in 1977, the maples were maintained by the Seattle Department of Transportation. Coming up on 50 years later, most of the 15th Ave trees were completely dead with branches and bark falling off. A few hangers-on were in serious decline.

SDOT says it hired a contractor to remove the old maples “due to safety concerns, particularly because they were adjacent to Metro bus lines.”

SDOT says there is no evidence “porous paving contributed to the trees’ decline” as the city’s tree wells have been filled in recent years to prevent injuries to pedestrians and people using tree-lined sidewalks.

Despite the city’s ambitious goals of quickly establishing a 30% tree canopy cover, there is no plan for re-planting. But there will be a first step. Continue reading →

Haunted Burrow Books will make temporary home on Capitol Hill block destined for demolition and development

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(Image: Haunted Burrow Books)

(Image: Haunted Burrow Books)

The shapeshifting mix of short-term pop-ups, flea markets, and retail experiments that are keeping the old QFC block of 15th Ave E active in anticipation of coming mixed-use redevelopment will include a spooky temporary guest.

Haunted Burrow Books and its offerings of “horror, dark fantasy, sci-fi, and other moody genres” is getting ready to haunt the street for an ephemeral stay in the mix.

Owner and editor Roxanne Guiney has announced a June 20th grand opening for the temporary Capitol Hill horror and dark fantasy book shop: Continue reading →

‘A second car has hit Uncle Ike’s’ — Capitol Hill pot shop struck in second smash and grab burglary targeting same store in three days

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Again! Thanks to a CHS reader for the picture and tip

A CHS reader reported an ominous incident Sunday morning — “A second car has hit Uncle Ike’s”

Only days after the store was targeted in a nearly identical smash and grab burglary early Friday morning, a group of brazen thieves struck the 15th Ave E Uncle Ike’s for a second time early Sunday, smashing a stolen Hyundai Elantra into the same corner of the store damaged Friday and entering the shop to steal cannabis products and gear from inside the compromised building. Continue reading →