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This week in CHS history | Olive Way Improvement Company building rejected at landmark, deadly 18th Ave house fire, perpetually broken Broadway escalator becomes… stairs

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

2023

 

Not a landmark: The Olive Way Improvement Company building once home to Holy Smoke, Coffee Messiah, and In the Bowl


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With Bok a Bok-Stoup link, you can now order Korean fried chicken to your Capitol Hill beer hall table

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You can now order food that will be brought to your table inside one of the great hangout spaces on Capitol Hill.

Yes, Stoup Brewing Capitol Hill has invented… the restaurant.

It’s more fun than that.

Thanks to the new partnership, you can order from nearby Bok a Bok and have your Korean fried chicken delivered to you at the E Union beer hall with QR codes with promised “secret deals” on the Stoup tables.

As an added bonus, according to this post to the CHS Facebook group, the food will be brought over to the brewery across the couple blocks of Pike/Pine by a Bok a Bok employee and not a delivery driver. Meanwhile, Stoup Capitol Hill’s schedule of food trucks including Birrieria Pepe El Toro, Bella M’Briana, El Gran Taco, MexiCuban, and Tummy Yummy Thai is still in rotation.

Meanwhile, you can also still order Bok a Bok at its 10th Ave counter or inside The Runaway bar.

The pairing marks a new connection for Bok a Bok which moved into the neighborhood next to Neumos in 2017. Stoup, meanwhile, celebrated its 2023 move into the neighborhood by releasing its first Capitol Hill-brewed IPA earlier this winter.

Stoup Capitol Hill is located at 1158 Broadway.

 

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A new look but same neighborhood vibes at 15th Ave’s original Victrola Coffee

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There is a new look for an old coffee friend on 15th Ave E. One of Capitol Hill’s favorite hangouts has given its interior an overhaul with new seating and benches and a new layout.

Part of the neighborhood for 24 years, the original Victrola Coffee cafe is rolling out the upgrades as it also makes changes to its food menu.

The new setup and seating in the old favorite comes in changing times for Capitol Hill’s daytime hangouts emerging from the pandemic. Some of Capitol Hill’s best spaces changed forever in that time. Most recently, E Pike’s former Kaladi Brothers cafe has begun a new life as a home for the Capitol Hill expansion of beer hall and bottle shop the Last Drop. Continue reading →

Sound Transit adds ‘Deputy CEO for Megaproject Delivery’ as it takes on $54B in expansion

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Challenged by delays and ballooning cost estimates, Sound Transit has added a new “Deputy CEO for Megaproject Delivery” to help make sure its largest investments are delivered on time and on budget.

The agency announced it has hired Terri Mestas as the first deputy CEO to fill the role, “a new position created to lead the development of the agency’s concurrent projects quickly and effectively and bring forth ways to accelerate project timelines and reduce capital expenditures.” Sound Transit says it undertaking “the largest transit expansion program in the country” with capital projects totaling an estimated $54 billion. Continue reading →

CHS Pics | Enjoy the blossoms of the Akebono Cherry trees of 21st Ave E

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Far from the crowds wandering the quad at the University of Washington is a Capitol Hill street that also blooms beautifully in spring.

21st Ave E — just north of Aloha and south of Prospect — is home to one of Capitol Hill’s best blooms of cherry blossoms. The old trees line a couple blocks and draw small crowds of their own to swirl feet through the pink and white drifts and take pictures. Continue reading →

Hollingsworth committee hears reports on SPD surveillance tech

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An old school “throw phone” being prepared for deployment at a Capitol Hill standoff

The Seattle City Council’s Parks, Public Utilities, and Technology Committee chaired by District 3 representative Joy Hollingsworth will hear required updates Wednesday from the Seattle Police Department on its use of two resources covered by the city’s “Surveillance Impact Report” requirements.

In Wednesday afternoon’s session, Hollingsworth’s committee will hear updates on SPD’s ongoing use of Callyo, a “cell phone identification masking and recording technology” that allows “undercover officers to mask their phone numbers and record conversations of suspects,” according to a council brief on the session. Continue reading →

18th Ave’s Firehouse Mini Park is getting a $781K overhaul

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Seattle Parks and Recreation will host a community meeting next month to help shape designs for a $781,000 overhaul of 18th Ave’s Firehouse Mini Park.

Parks says the Saturday, April 6th meeting will provide an opportunity for the project’s designers to provide information about the planned upgrades and hear feedback on ideas for the play area next to the Byrd Bard Place community facility.

The city says the project will replace the existing play equipment and make accessibility improvements for the park including replacement of “the Engineered Wood Fiber” wood chip surfacing in the play area, renovations to the lawn area, planting enhancements and “site furnishing updates.” Continue reading →