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This week in CHS history | Plum says goodbye, the end of Cafe Vita’s upstairs seating, Perkins Glass moves off Hill

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

2025

 

Goodbye to Plum and 20 years of vegan good eats and memories on Capitol Hill


Victim in Broadway and Pike shooting identified

With echoes of its ‘grand lobby’ past, Piedmont Cafe now open on First Hill

Trump is back, so are the marches — People’s March Seattle planned to step off from Capitol Hill’s Cal Anderson Park on January 18th

After 53 years on Broadway, Perkins Glass moves off Capitol Hill

2024

 

Piroshki on 3rd on Capitol Hill? Nah — Pinoyshki Bakery and Cafe ready to open on E Pine

After Black Lives Memorial Garden removal, UW studio taking academic approach to sorting out community uses in Cal Anderson

Seattle’s chances of significant snow have dried up but city and Regional Homelessness Authority ready for cold

One to hospital, police looking for another possibly hit in 23rd and Union shooting

New Seattle City Council president promises ‘reset in tone’ with talk of increased police spending, criticism of JumpStart tax on large employers

2023

 

Development firm has deal for boarded-up E Olive Way/Denny property once home to In the Bowl, Bus Stop, and Coffee Messiah — UPDATE

A decade later, checking in on what comes next for a Capitol Hill development once at the center of the Seattle debate over microhousing

Big Mario’s to take over Seattle pizza classic Northlake Tavern

Developer to hold ‘neighborhood discussions’ as final design for Capitol Hill Safeway redevelopment is pounded out

2022

 

How’s your Dick’s-less start to 2022 going, Capitol Hill? What would you have added to the Broadway drive-in?

‘Improper ruse’ — Investigation finds Seattle Police officers faked reports about armed Proud Boys headed to CHOP — UPDATE: Harrell statement

City Attorney Davison reshapes Seattle City Hall’s legal team

‘Savvy survivors’ — Coyote sightings reported across a thawing Capitol Hill

40,800 — New method for counting people living homeless in King County finds thousands missing from past tallies

2021

 

Reopening Seattle: Inslee rolls out Washington’s new plan for loosening restrictions on businesses, sporting events, fitness, and gatherings, region by region — UPDATE

‘I will not open in Seattle again’ — Why Capitol Hill’s The Wandering Goose really closed

More arrests on Capitol Hill to start 2021 as anti-police protesters continue to target East Precinct

Capitol Hill counter legend Carmelo’s Tacos opening new location on 12th Ave — this time, with tables

2016

 

E Pike Caffe Vita’s upstairs — one of the Hill’s best coffee hangouts — now ’employees only’

Julia’s shifts to theater-first concept on Broadway after considering downtown move

Those Smurfy Smurfin’ Broadway bikeway bollards are Smurfin’ gone

‘Fully involved’ fire chars 12th/John squatter house for second time in week

Mattress chain Sleep Train moving in on Broadway

 

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