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This week in CHS history | Capitol Hill drugstore closures, Métier debut, Jai Thai says goodbye

Here are the top stories from this week in CHS history:

2024

With Georgetown shutdown, Elysian Brewing doubling down on overhaul of its ‘beloved’ Capitol Hill original — UPDATE


With Capitol Hill neighborhood convenience store ShopRite gone, 15th Ave E now significantly less convenient — UPDATE

‘Time to let that go’ — Capitol Hill’s Century Ballroom will close in 2025

911 | Reported DUI driver crash sets off 15th/Aloha house fire — UPDATE

That viral ‘Seattle serial killer’ video about Capitol Hill’s Interlaken Park is full of beans

2023

City of Seattle planning addition of ‘children’s play area’ to popular nude hangout Denny Blaine Park — UPDATE: ‘Private donation’

Customers: Capitol Hill Bartell Drugs store set to join wave of closures — UPDATE


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WSDOT scrambling over $1.4B bid for 520 Portage Bay Bridge/Roanoke Lid project — 70% higher than expected

2022

While SDOT waits for funding, somebody painted a guerilla crosswalk at E Olive Way and Harvard — UPDATE: Washed away

911 | Police surround 15th Ave 7-Eleven after reported gunpoint hold-up — UPDATE: 11th/Union shooting

Fais de beaux rêves, Joe Bar — The French Guys are moving in

An apparent end to Jai Thai’s good times — and laughs — on Broadway

2021

Mixed-use development to replace Hilltop Service Station finally ready to break ground on Capitol Hill

District 3 recall: A Better Seattle joins ‘yes’ fight, Kshama Solidarity holds a ‘F%#k The Recall’ Block Party, and how they would replace Sawant

Seasmith: Capitol Hill Station will have an H Mart and a new home for Glo’s — of course it will also have a coffee shop

Kaiser Permanente reluctant to act on Capitol Hill surface parking lots

SPD busts up Capitol Hill takeover as drivers burn rubber in Pike/Pine

2020

Who ordered the abandonment of the East Precinct? — UPDATE

Redfin says 30% want to live ‘somewhere else’ because of protests

A Broadway development more than 20 years in the making, the process to fill Capitol Hill Station’s new apartments has begun — UPDATE

‘Spiritual practice’ — 12th Ave yoga studio says it will continue in-person classes despite COVID-19 restrictions — UPDATE

Really old Bordeaux House proposed as new landmark on Capitol Hill’s Millionaire’s Row — UPDATE

2015

Five injured in shooting at Broadway and Pike

The troubled birth, triumphant revival, and peaceful death of Capitol Hill steakhouse Manhattan

Meet the architect who wants to build a lidded park over I-5

Métier sets the pace as new cafe + bike gym + training center opens on E Union

 

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