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Seattle City Light: 5,000 out across northern Capitol Hill, 10,000 across city — UPDATE
A breezy and wet Saturday afternoon left more than 5,000 customers in the dark around northern Capitol Hill and Eastlake.
Seattle City Light said about 10,000 customers were out across the city as of just after 3 PM Saturday.
For the Capitol Hill area outage, the cause of the failure was still being investigated but Seattle City Light said crews had been dispatched for repairs and restoration.
SCL provided a service restoration estimate of 10 PM — though it’s not clear how the department generates its predictions without a cause already determined.
UPDATE: City Light says it has restored power to some for the Eastlake area outage and that it expects full restoration by around 7:15 PM. It is blaming a tree for the failure. One report described a tree falling on wires near the Colonnade park under I-5.
UPDATE x2: SCL says the outage has ended:
The outage on north Capitol Hill/Eastlake affecting approximated 2,800 customers has been restored. We thank our crews for their work and for your patience as we continue to restore power across our service area.
You can check for updates via mobile at seattle.gov/city-light/outages.
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Next for Capitol Hill Machiavelli space? ‘Cheese Room’ from the Meet Korean BBQ family
Thanks to Alex in the CHS Facebook Group for the neighborhood reporting
The corner of Melrose and Pine’s next culinary legacy will be established by a restaurateur who has already brought the finest meats to Capitol Hill.
Now, Heong Soon Park is bringing us his finest cheeses.
The good folks over in the CHS Facebook Group broke the news this week. The food and drink venture taking over the space left empty by the exit of neighborhood favorite Ristorante Machiavelli will be a cheese-y new project.
Liquor and business license paperwork filed for the address shows that work is beginning to transform the classic Italian joint into a new Cheese Room restaurant from the Meet Korean BBQ food and drink family.
What shape and form the cheese-inspired project will take is yet to be seen. Anything from a cheese bar (RIP Culture Club) to a fondue joint that echoes the attendants and prepare-at-your-table vibe of Meet BBQ could be in the works. Popular Seoul restaurant Melting Shop and its Italian leanings could also be an inspiration. There is also the possibility Cheese Room is just a temporary project name for the final food and drink project. We’ve reached out to Meet to learn more. Continue reading
Cal Anderson homeless encampment ‘obstruction clean-up’ came during search for killer
While Seattle Police detectives were spending the overnight hours secretly watching for a suspect feared to be preying on people sleeping outside in the area’s streets and parks, city clearance crews were also being dispatched to clear encampments around Capitol Hill.
In one example, according to a SPD brief on the inclusion of their personnel to provide security for the “obstruction clean-up” operation, Seattle Parks and Recreation and SDOT led a clean-up along Nagle Place on the west edge of Cal Anderson last Friday morning out of concerns around the attacks.
“Recent incidents of stabbings and assaults in the area prompted the request for immediate intervention,” the brief reads. Continue reading
‘Capitol Hill’s #1’ teriyaki joint is immortal — Welcome Teriyaki & Wok ‘back’ to Broadway
One cannot measure the life of “Capitol Hill’s #1” teriyaki joint as a simple instant. This is a multiverse.
Last month, CHS bid goodbye to Broadway’s Teriyaki & Wok as its longtime owners announced they had sold the business and were taking their 14 years of Broadway restaurant experience to Federal Way.
This month, we ask you to say hello. Continue reading
Tough skin: The Rhino Room endures a decade of Pike/Pine nightlife
(Image: The Rhino Room)
(Image: The Rhino Room)
The Rhino Room has had quite a Capitol Hill life in its years on 11th Ave. The neighbors used to be The Stranger and a Value Village. Then a WeWork and national golf bar chain moved in. The alt weekly moved out. In that lifetime, the WeWork has gone bankrupt and closed. Tough skin.
The party is still going strong at the “Booze and Boogie Palace” as the Rhino Room marks a decade on Capitol Hill this spring. The club might be in its toughest, leanest form, sparking to life and sending its disco ball spinning only two nights a week. But they are two nights of very big fun.
Patric Gabre-Kidan, still part of the ownership today, hasn’t had much to say over the years at Rhino as the venue has endured waves of Pike/Pine redevelopment and the weeks of CHOP and SPD turmoil in the streets outside the club in 2020.
“I’ve been out of town the past week. Just landed moments ago. What can I say? It’s been a great 10 years,” Gabre-Kidan told CHS. Continue reading
Hollingsworth’s first co-sponsored legislation passes full council
(Image: SPU)
It wasn’t her legislation but District 3’s representative on the Seattle City Council marked a milestone earlier this week as the first bill from the committee she chairs was passed by the full body.
Joy Hollingsworth joined here eight council counterparts Tuesday in approving legislation that will allow the city to undertake “ecological thinning” and a limited timber sale in its highly protected Cedar River Watershed east of the city. Continue reading
Standoff with robbery suspects inside First Hill apartment unit shuts down Madison
Five people were taken into custody and police had the area around Madison and Boylston locked down Thursday morning while dealing with a group of robbery suspects believed to be barricaded inside a sixth floor apartment unit.
SPD was called to the First Hill apartment building just after 4 AM after a man was reported down and bleeding from his head in the lobby of the highrise.
Officers were told multiple suspects were inside a 6th floor unit in the building. Continue reading
Suspect charged in First Hill ax murder investigation — UPDATE
The 25-year-old resident investigated in the killing of a homeless man with an ax on First Hill has been charged with first degree murder.
King County Prosecutors say Liam Kryger, 25, killed 52-year-old Daravuth Van with an ax as he camped near First Hill’s Town Hall.
Prosecutors say Kryger was previously arrested in 2018 for a violent burglary and stabbing in North Bend that placed him in a treatment program under supervision of the King County Mental Health Court. Kryger failed to attend a scheduled review hearing in late 2019 but apparently had steered clear of the law until his arrest Sunday. Continue reading
First Hill man arrested in ax murder as Seattle Police secretly searched for suspect preying on homeless — UPDATE: CHARGED
The Town Hall murder scene (Image: SPD)
Details from Chief Adrian Diaz of the arrest of a First Hill resident in the brutal ax murder of a homeless man outside 8th Ave’s Town Hall last month reveal Seattle Police were secretly tracking a possible killer preying on Seattle’s unhoused.
Liam Kryger, 25, is being held in King County Jail on $5 million bail after being arrested by SWAT and police Sunday at Spruce and Broadway near his 10th Ave First Hill apartment. Prosecutors say they expect a charging decision in the case Wednesday.
Diaz revealed details of Kryger’s arrest two weeks after the killing in a lightly attended press conference Monday night as he described the SPD detective work that led to police pursuing a suspect carrying an ax early Saturday into Freeway Park. Diaz says the suspect was able to escape but dropped the ax.
Police were able to trace the ax to a February purchase at the Lowe’s store on Rainier Ave. Kryger was identified as the purchaser after a department of corrections officer recognized him from images police obtained of the home improvement store transaction.
According to the police report and initial court documents in the case, 52-year-old Daravuth Van was murdered as he camped near First Hill’s Town Hall, suffering a crushing blow to the head. Continue reading
