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Design review: 293 new homes set to neighbor Capitol Hill Station and Cal Anderson Park

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It is time to start planning big around Capitol Hill Station and Cal Anderson Park again.

This week brings the first design review for a project that will add nearly 300 new apartment units across the street from the busy light rail facility and its collection of apartments and thousands of square feet of new retail space.

The new project from San Francisco-based developers Carmel Partners and Seattle-based Neiman Taber Architects will also create hundreds of new homes across from Cal Anderson Park, the centerpiece of Capitol Hill’s public spaces and core geography in the 2020 Black Lives Matter and anti-police protests. If Seattle is dying, somebody should let the developers know. Slowly but surely, new housing is rising on all sides of the popular park.

Design review: 112 10th Ave E

Design Review Early Design Guidance for an 8-story, 293-unit apartment building. Parking for 63 vehicles proposed. View Design Proposal  (94 MB)    

Review Meeting
August 24, 2022 5:00 PM

Meeting: https://bit.ly/Mtg3039544

Listen Line: 206-207-1700 Passcode: 2497 424 6962
Comment Sign Up: https://bit.ly/Comment3039544
Review Phase
EDG–Early Design Guidance

Project Number

Planner
David Sachs

The planned development set for review this week pieces together a puzzle of $1 million-plus parcels to make space for a new eight-story, nearly 293-unit apartment complex on the block of E Denny between 10th and 11th Ave just north of Cal Anderson. Continue reading →

Man killed in Cal Anderson basketball court shooting — UPDATE

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Nagle was shut down overnight during the investigation (Image: SPD)

A man was reported shot on the basketball court at Cal Anderson Park and died on the west edge of the park as police rendered emergency aid and Seattle Fire medics arrived at the scene early Saturday morning.

Police reported detaining one person in at least one vehicle stop following the 12:30 AM shooting but were searching for a smaller SUV reported leaving the area where the shooting took place along Nagle on the west side of the park. Continue reading →

CHS Pics | ‘A sense of collaboration and neighborliness’ in A Collaborative Landscape art project in Cal Anderson Park

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Capitol Hill artist Jesse Higman did a little repair work over the weekend.

CHS stopped through Cal Anderson Park to see Higman and community helpers pouring new works of art together as part of the artist’s A Collaborative Landscape project, an effort toward “restoring the sense of community and inclusion that has long been part of the draw of the Capitol Hill neighborhood but was lost over the last two years.”

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CHS Pics | A movie in Cal Anderson Park means summer is here — the returns of Capitol Hill Block Party, and, yes, Capitol Hill Garage Sale Day are next

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Cal Anderson got back to its pre-pandemic, pre-2020 protests ways Friday night with a movie in the park. CHS stopped by for scenes from within — and above — the crowd gathered for the Seattle Parks screening of To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar.

Despite Monday’s turn of chilly July-uary weather, the summer will return to Capitol Hill this week with the return of the Capitol Hill Block Party.

And, later this summer, another legendary community event will also return to the neighborhood. Yes, Capitol Hill Garage Sale Day is coming back. Continue reading →

With a move to the park’s ‘north meadow,’ movies in the park return to Cal Anderson

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We all deserve movies in the park

A rite of summer is ready to return to Capitol Hill. Somewhere along the way, we decided movies in the park needed to be put on hold. This week, the tradition returns to Cal Anderson but with some changes including a new location in the park for the show.

Friday night, Seattle Parks and Recreation will host a movie in the park screening of To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar. Yes, you’ve already seen it. But have you watched it outside with a big crowd on a 72 F Capitol Hill night?

Parks is encouraging attendees to “dress to impress!” and advises bringing chairs, blankets and snacks. Continue reading →

A ‘quiet space for communal mourning and personal contemplation,’ Ribbon of Light the last piece of Capitol Hill’s AIDS Memorial Pathway

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The final installation of art to complete the AIDS Memorial Pathway between Cal Anderson Park and Capitol Hill Station will be marked with a ceremony Thursday night.

Organizers are inviting the community to gather with artist Horatio Hung-Yan Law as the fences come down and the Ribbon of Light sculpture is fully unveiled with remarks from the artist, Gay City, and the Office of Arts and Culture. The event will take place Thursday from 8 to 9 PM on the north end of Cal Anderson.

CHS reported here on the Ribbon work as a “quiet space for communal mourning and personal contemplation” as  part of the AIDS Memorial Pathway connecting the park to The AMP Plaza and Capitol Hill Station. Continue reading →

Seattle settles one CHOP lawsuit with wrongful death deal over teen gunned down on edge of protest zone

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A memorial left near where Anderson died in June 2020

The City of Seattle has settled a wrongful death lawsuit in the June 2020 shooting of 19-year-old Lorenzo Anderson on the edge of CHOP.

The settlement hammered out late last year and approved by a judge this spring shuts down proceedings on a claim brought in King County Superior Court seeking billions brought by Anderson’s father. A federal case brought by Anderson’s mother was dismissed late last year but is being appealed.

The legal process for the 19-year-old’s alleged murderer continues. Prosecutors say 18-year-old Marcel Long shot and killed the teen at 10th and Pine in a June 2020 fracas after what witnesses said was a night of gambling and fireworks on the edge of the CHOP protest camp. Long, 18 at the time of the shooting, was arrested a year later in Des Moines, Washington by a U.S. Marshals led task force and is currently awaiting trial. Continue reading →

Mayor’s ‘Day of Service’ includes Cal Anderson and Capitol Hill street clean-ups

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(Image: City of Seattle)

Dozens of volunteer efforts this Saturday to “turn the values” of Mayor Bruce Harrell’s One Seattle vision “into shared action and meaningful improvement” will include clean-ups of Cal Anderson Park and the surrounding streets of Pike/Pine and Broadway.

CHS reported here on Harrell’s launch of the One Seattle Day of Service effort last month. As mayor and through his career in Seattle politics including years on the Seattle City Council, Harrell has often focused on the trash and graffiti end of public safety, sometimes stopping in his tracks on community visits to comment on a tagged building or busted glass.

The Day of Service push also is centered around his administration’s championing of philanthropy and volunteer efforts to help address Seattle’s issues of drug, mental health, and homelessness. In February, big givers led by the Ballmer family worked with Harrell to launch a $10 million program supported by philanthropists and corporate donors to place “peer navigators” to move campers into services and reduce the presence of homeless people in downtown Seattle.

Meanwhile, CHS reported on efforts from mutual aid volunteers to provide food and resources to Capitol Hill’s homeless community. Continue reading →

#BansOffOurBodies — Thousands rally for abortion rights on Seattle’s Capitol Hill

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Rep. Suzan DelBene

By Hannah Saunders with reporting from CHS

Thousands filled Capitol Hill’s Cal Anderson Park Saturday to call for the protection of Roe v. Wade. Thousands marched through the neighborhood calling for the protection of women’s rights and to respond to the leaked Supreme Court decision by speaking out against the erosion of civil rights in the country.

Beth Riven said she was there because she cares about the health and wellbeing of women and girls in the United States.

“Hopefully this is a rallying call for not only Seattle, but others around the country and in fact, around the world, that fascist moves by a Supreme Court will harm everyone, including men and families—not only women and girls,” Riven said.

Congresswoman Suzan DelBene was the first speaker to take the microphone during Saturday’s rally.

“This is a combination of Republicans’ decades long effort to take away women’s freedoms, and it breaks my heart that my daughter — so many young women out here — could have less rights than I did at your age, and it won’t stop here,” DelBene said.

“This is an issue that affects all of us,” said DelBene. “Even if you’re not a woman or you don’t think this issue impacts you, I hope you’ll remember something that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, which is ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere’.”

Organized by the Planned Parenthood Action Fund as part of #BansOffOurBodies protests in more than 400 cities this weekend, Saturday’s rally was the latest centerpoint of Seattle protests, gatherings, and actions from many groups across the region including groups like Refuse Fascism Seattle that gathered later Saturday afternoon at Seattle Central before marching on Broadway with rally attendees and groups joining for a full day of protest and speaking out. Friday, the Beauty in Our Community group held a youth-focused action in the park to kick off the weekend of protest. Continue reading →

‘WE HAVE EACH OTHER – WE NEED EACH OTHER’ — A Will and A Way uplifts unhoused community on Capitol Hill through mutual aid

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Seattle’s homelessness crisis continues and government efforts come and go — here is one very small example of a different approach that moves outside City Hall’s response to the crisis. Forming in small community efforts nationwide during Black Lives Matter and anti-police protests of recent years, mutual aid organizations use donations to provide marginalized groups with resources such as food and medical care. One busy here is A Will and A Way, a Capitol Hill-based organization that seeks to uplift and support the local unhoused community.

A Will and A Way formed from a group of local protest medics who provided care to participants in a number of local demonstrations, that has since branched out and began to offer support services over the year and a half it has been on the Hill, a member of A Will and A Way tells CHS.

“We started to see how much the police brutality was also affecting the unhoused community, and so as the protests started to die down, we shifted into providing medical aid to the unhoused community,” the member said.

The member CHS spoke with chose to remain anonymous in order to avoid putting themselves in the spotlight above other members in the group — reflecting the horizontal organization of A Will and A Way. Continue reading →