Monthly Archives: August 2024

With First Hill home finally set for demolition and redevelopment, Seattle arts nomad Love City Love in search of new start

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Nomadic Seattle arts venue Love City Love is searching for its next home as the end of August brings the end of its stay in a former First Hill dental office on land set to host a mass timber apartment building.

“Love City Love emerged as a blank canvas for the creative community to convene,” the LCL mantra goes. “We believe continuing to craft this alternative is not only possible but crucial to keep art and culture alive and thriving in our city.”

CHS reported here in early 2023 as Love City Love founder Lucien Pellegrin was making preparations for the Seneca dental office building to host the next run of the venue that has grown around its ability to make new gathering spaces in buildings slated for demolition or redevelopment. Continue reading →

Community elbow grease adds half-pipe ramp for Cal Anderson skaters

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(Image: Nova Berger/CHS)

(Image: Nova Berger/CHS)

With reporting by Nova Berger/CHS Intern

While larger efforts are underway to improve Cal Anderson Park and make it a better, safer space for the neighborhood, smaller projects can come together more quickly.

The popular skateboarding area on the park’s sports courts got a fun neighborhood enhancement this summer thanks to a little community elbow grease.

With the help of Seattle Skate Features, a local company specializing in pre-assembled, high-quality skate ramps hoping to make skating more accessible, a new half-pipe ramp was added at Cal Anderson earlier this summer.

“If you build it, they will come,” Don Luca of Seattle Skate Features quipped about the instant popularity of the installation. Continue reading →

Capitol Hill Community Post | Madison Beach Survey

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By Friends of Madison Park

The Friends of Madison Park neighborhood association is exploring possible improvements of Madison Park Beach and upgrades of the facilities, in partnership with the Seattle Parks Dept. But we need to hear from you!

The City of Seattle cannot help us until we complete a public survey.  If you love coming to the Madison Park Beach, please take the 6 question survey linked from our website: friendsofmadisonpark.com/lander

The survey is short but essential for us to know why you love the beach and what improvements you would like to see with the facilities and the park.

We are looking for people from all over the city to give us their input.

Thank you!

 

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Auto row charm: Phe ready to put long-empty Pike/Pine preservation space into motion as new Vietnamese joint

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It’s been nearly a decade wait for a business to fully put this space to use

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When they designed the Cue Apartments mixed-use building at the corner of Pine and Harvard to echo the block’s street-level auto row-era structures to take advantage of the neighborhood’s generous preservation incentives, architects added a unique commercial space along E Pine that recreated the old auto garage the development would replace.

The 15th Ave Garage — yes, on E Pine — is long gone but the unique space has now gone nine years since the redevelopment’s completion without a business worthy of the design.

While the original auto row showroom and garage dimensions of its most loved buildings are often cited in the growth of Capitol Hill’s bar and nightlife scene, the imitation on E Pine just hadn’t found a way to fit in.

A new project is looking to change that. Work is underway to complete a new food and drink project behind the E Pine roll-up garage door. Continue reading →

Man dead in 17th Ave apartment shooting — UPDATE

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A man was found shot in the head and police were looking for a woman reportedly seen fleeing the building after a shooting on the 7th floor of a 17th Ave apartment building Thursday morning.

Police and Seattle Fire were called to the Seattle Housing Authority’s Olive Ridge apartments just before 8:30 AM and began to render aid to the man found down in the building’s hallway, according to emergency radio updates.

UPDATE: SPD reports the man died at the scene.

Continue reading →

Officials holding Thursday ribbon-cutting ceremony for RapidRide G

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It won’t open until September 14th but they are cutting the ribbon on the RapidRide G line today.

The city announced the Thursday ceremony Wednesday.

The rushed ceremony after three years of construction on the $139 million Seattle transit project comes as federal officials are also in the area for another celebration of Washington D.C.-boosted transportation spending — Friday’s opening of Sound Transit’s $3.1 billion light rail extension to Lynnwood. Continue reading →

RIDER ALERT — Route 3’s arrival on Summit part of changes and cuts to dozens of bus lines as RapidRide G service begins in September

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Thanks to CHS reader Matthew for the picture

The neighborhood around Summit Ave is celebrating. New signs have gone up announcing the September start of service in the area on Route 3, one of several bus lines King County Metro is adjusting — and deleting — with the launch of the RapidRide G line on Madison.

The first #3 bus will mark the return of Metro service on the street since Route 47 was stalled in a pandemic-era suspension.

The gains of I-5 Shores are the losses of Queen Anne. Like so many routes being adjusted, the #3 change comes with some bad news for somebody. In this case, the route’s old path to Queen Anne is being sliced away. Continue reading →

Barrio, an early player in the Pike/Pine food and drink boom, to close after 16 years on Capitol Hill

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A key investment for an early pioneer in the growth of Seattle “restaurant groups” and upscale Mexican cuisine on Capitol Hill and across the city will close this week after 16 years of business on 12th Ave. Its arrival was part of the early rumbles that grew into a boom in Pike/Pine food and drink driven by a surge in mixed-use redevelopment of the neighborhood.

Barrio, a Mexican restaurant concept from the company behind the Purple Wine Bar, announced its final day of service will be Friday, August 30th.

“It is with significant emotion to share that we have decided to close Barrio, our beloved restaurant in Capitol Hill, after a truly exceptional 16 years,” the Heavy Restaurant Group said in its announcement.

The massive 4,500-square-foot restaurant on the street level of the Trace North apartment building had been listed for sale earlier this summer for nearly $400,000 in a deal that would include monthly lease terms of $11,764 monthly rent plus $4,709 a month in building expenses.

CHS has asked Heavy for more information about the decision to close the business at this point with a lease still in hand but we have not heard back from the Seattle-based company. Continue reading →

‘Open and operating’ — County council votes in support of continued youth detention at 12th Ave’s Children and Family Justice Center

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The Patricia H. Clark Children and Family Justice Center (Image: King County)

The King County Council agreed this week on a symbolic gesture affirming its commitment to continue youth detention at 12th Ave’s Patricia H. Clark Children and Family Justice Center.

This week’s approval of the motion from Councilmember Reagan Dunn representing the county’s southeast came after “months of deliberation,” the announcement on the vote reads.

The council’s summer debate wasn’t quite as heated as the bulletin implies. “It is the intent of the King County Council to maintain operations of the secure juvenile detention facility at the Judge Patricia H. Clark Children and Family Justice Center,” the motion states.

Dunn positioned the approval as a necessary step toward more solid legislation. Continue reading →

‘Justice for Ruth’ — Community organizes memorial walk for much-loved dog walker killed in carjacking as suspect faces first degree murder and animal cruelty charges

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As the community is working to honor Ruth Dalton and raise funds for a memorial to the 80-year-old neighborhood dog walker slain in an August carjacking in Madison Valley, her alleged killer has been charged with assault, animal cruelty, and first degree murder.

Jahmed Haynes now faces charges of murder in the first degree plus second degree assault and a charge of first degree animal cruelty for allegedly killing Dalton’s dog in the Tuesday morning, August 20th carjacking.

CHS reported last week on his arrest blocks from his Capitol Hill apartment and early details in the case against the convicted felon.

The King County Prosecutor says the 48-year-old could be sentenced to life in prison under the charges. Prosecutors say Haynes’s criminal history is extensive and that he had been imprisoned for crimes including a 1993 vehicular homicide in Seattle and a 1999 armed robbery in Renton until recently following a conviction in 2003 during his incarceration that added 15 more years to his sentence through 2021 after Haynes attacked a Monroe prison guard with a crude knife fashioned from a 12-inch piece of metal. Continue reading →