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Sound and Fog to add coffee and cocktails at E Denny and Harvard

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Sound and Fog is coming to E Denny Way from West Seattle bringing along hard to find coffee roasts to Capitol Hill but swapping out its wine club for craft cocktails.

“This one is a little bit different,” owner Justin Krebs says of the planned expansion. “We’re not carrying the wine component.” Instead, the second location will be a coffee and cocktails “mash-up” in the spirit of Sound and Fog’s quest for unique cafe experiences.

“If you can get it down the street, I probably don’t want to serve it,” Krebs said of Sound and Fog’s focus on European roasts.

Krebs, a former Starbucks employee who opened the first Sound and Fog in West Seattle six years ago, will also have an interesting window on the coffee giant’s tangle with unionization efforts. Continue reading →

Thieves speed away after reported armed carjacking on Capitol Hill

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Seattle Police gave up a high speed chase into downtown after a reported armed carjacking near Cal Anderson Park early Thursday night.

According to SPD and East Precinct radio reports, the heist went down near 11th and Denny as two men in ski masks reportedly held up the driver at gunpoint: Continue reading →

Thanks to Seattle’s Notice of Intent to Sell ordinance, residents hoping for chance to buy their Capitol Hill apartment building get window of opportunity

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Earlier this month, CHS reported on Capitol Hill’s La Quinta apartments hitting the market and the hopes of residents of the landmarks-protected building at 17th and Denny to have a shot at purchasing the property even as its listing was already live and a sale nearly ready to close.

Thanks to Seattle’s still relatively new under-used Notice of Intent to Sell ordinance, those residents now have at least 30 days to organize a possible bid.

According to an aide to City Councilmember Lisa Herbold, her office looked into the planned sale after learning of the situation through CHS’s coverage and found that at least one unit in the building is renting at rates affordable to those earning no more than 80% of the area median income, requiring the building owners to participate in the Notice of Intent to Sell program. Continue reading →

They won landmarks protections — Now residents of Capitol Hill’s La Quinta apartments want chance to buy the building

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(Image: Viva La Quinta/Jesse L. Young)

With an early start, the residents and neighbors of Capitol Hill’s Frederick Anhalt-designed La Quinta apartments have already worked together to win landmarks protections for the 1927-built complex at 17th and Denny.

Now they are in a rush to try to rally together to buy the landmarked building before a sale closes that will move the property into new hands after the death of longtime owner Ken Van Dyke in early 2020.

Residents have started a petition calling on the ownership company set up for the building to hold off on a planned sale and give the neighbors a chance to match the price:

Less than two weeks ago, we discovered that our home was being put on the market. As tenants, we are willing and able to purchase La Quinta collectively, as a cooperative. However, our landlord has refused us the opportunity to purchase, preferring to sell to a buyer who can purchase in cash. Continue reading →

911 | Capitol Hill park encampment fire, Sunday night gunfire, and a dog-cat-knife brawl on Broadway

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  • Williams Place encampment fire: Seattle Police and Seattle Fire were called to the encampment in Williams Place Park Sunday afternoon after an explosion and a fire damaged tents and belongings but caused no reported significant injuries. Officers and firefighters were called to the park at 15th and John just before 2 PM to a report of an explosion and fire burning the public space. Officers arrived to find one tent fully engulfed and a second scorched by the blaze. Police say the tent owner was not present at the time of the incident and witnesses said the fire appeared to be an accident and reported no suspicious activity at the encampment. SPD says it couldn’t be determined what caused the fire and explosion but officers reported numerous flammable items including fuel canisters in the park. “Several encampments were entirely destroyed,” advocacy group Be:Seattle  reports. “The people living there lost their shelter and all of their belongings.” You can learn more about how to donate items to help here. Continue reading →

Landmarks process begins for Capitol Hill’s La Quinta Apartments — UPDATE

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In December, CHS told you about the neighbors at 17th and Denny’s Frederick Anhalt-designed La Quinta apartments working together to win protections for the 1927 building.

Wednesday, the U-shaped structure with a clay tile roof, and a dozen two-story apartments around a central Mediterranean Revival courtyard, plus a thirteenth unit perched above the building’s garage will face its first review in the Seattle landmarks process.

According to the nomination report prepared for Historic Seattle and the VIva La Quinta group pushing for the landmark designation, many of the building’s original tenants were immigrants and families with young children. According to the report, much is unchanged about the property — even a rose still growing there is an original.

We’ve embedded the nomination report below. Continue reading →

Man who died in 21st and Denny fire identified

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The man who died in a fire inside a boarded-up building near 21st and Denny last week has been identified.

The King County Medical Examiner’s office says Benjamin Bess, 23, died of smoke inhalation in what investigators determined was an accidental fire that started inside the squat house.

CHS reported here on the deadly Wednesday night, December 2nd fire in the fenced-off structure near new development in the area of 21st Ave E. Continue reading →

Long live Capitol Hill’s La Quinta — Residents rally (early!) to make 17th and Denny Anhalt apartments a landmark

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(Image: Viva La Quinta/Jesse L. Young)

Hoping to head off yet another story of a lovely, old building being torn down to make way for a new brick of ceramic and fiberboard, residents of the La Quinta apartments have started a drive to have their building recognized as a landmark.

The building at 1710 E Denny Way was built by prolific Seattle developer Frederick Anhalt in 1927. The U-shaped building with a clay tile roof holds a dozen two-story apartments and has a large central Mediterranean Revival courtyard. A thirteenth apartment is perched over the building’s garage.

It changed hands a few times until it was purchased by Ken Van Dyke in 1982. Van Dyke died earlier this year, leaving residents worried that the new owners might want to redevelop the property.

Chelsea Bolan, who has lived in the building since 2003, said they don’t know for certain that redevelopment was planned in the immediate future, but they started hearing rumors from people in contact with the new owners.

“He suggested, if we wanted to do a landmark, do it now,” Bolan said. Continue reading →

Death investigation closes E Denny Way

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A long Seattle Police investigation closed Denny between Harvard and Broadway Tuesday night after a man died on the street as he was being driven to a nearby hospital.

Seattle Fire was called to the area just after 5 PM along with SPD to try to find a 911 caller who reported their passenger was suffering a serious medical issue and they were trying to make their way to the hospital. Seattle Fire found the vehicle in the 800 block of E Denny where the driver had pulled over to try to perform CPR on the patient.

Seattle Fire reports the 59-year-old was pronounced dead when its units arrived.

Seattle Police shut down Denny for an hours-long closure following the incident. A department spokesperson tells CHS its officers were performing a standard death investigation.

Juice Club planning a ‘natural wine party’ on E Denny Way

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Organic, low intervention, simply complex, imbued with possible health benefits, it is no surprise that natural wine is becoming the official beverage of our times — or, at least, the official beverage of Capitol Hill, Seattle circa 2020.

Juice Club, a popular pop-up project that has grown into a Seattle phenomenon around the city’s bar scene, is making plans for its first rooted investment with a new joint on E Denny Way on the ground level of the Saint Florence.

The E Denny facing space in the 1914-built masonry apartment building just up from the E Olive Way intersection underwent a recent overhaul and is awaiting a new tenant. A state liquor license application shows the Club lining up to create a new “beer/wine specialty shop” in the space indicating a project leaning more toward the event and retail end of the natural wine spectrum. Continue reading →