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The veteran mixologists behind coming soon Broadway restaurant Guillotine have released details and an opening date for the project.
CHS reported here last month on the food and drink venture from bartenders Colin Smith and Andrew Larson taking over the space formerly home to the Southern-style cocktail joint Witness on Broadway.
Now we know more details of the upcoming opening planned for early May. Smith tells CHS Guillotine will be all about the execution from pulling a pint to offering up vintage champagne with caviar if the customer demands.
“We will have the tools to do very elevated things,” Smith said. “But want everyone to feel comfortable.”
The Seattle City Councilapproved new contracts Tuesday for more than 7,000 city workers across 16 different labor unions that will raise wages, catch up on back pay, and expand benefits.
But all eyes are on a deal that falls outside those bounds as details are emerging from an agreement between City Hall and the Seattle Police Officers Guild.
Under the agreements finalized by the council Tuesday, city employees will see a catch-up on raises with a retroactive 5% payout for last year, a 4% bump in 2024, a 2025 raise tied to the regional Consumer Price Index and gated between 2% and 4%. and, in 2026, raises of between 2% and 5% pegged to inflation, Crosscut reports. Continue reading →
“This is an urban oasis sited on a wooded corner lot, featuring 10’ ceilings, floor-to-ceiling glass along the west side, and a ribbon of corrugated glass skylights along the east roof line, providing ample daylight,” the listing boasts.
A home designed by a father of Seattle’s Space Needle and an architect remembered for his efforts to preserve Pioneer Square and Pike Place Market has hit the Central Seattle real estate market at 14th and Spring.
The 1950-built, 1,100-square-foot midcentury modern home was designed by Victor Steinbrueck, “a celebrated pioneer in Seattle’s historic preservation who also drafted early concept designs for the Space Needle,” as his own residence, the listing boasts. Continue reading →
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Rinck, Yusuf, Sanchez, and Woo
With reporting by Hannah Saunders
The race for the citywide Position 8 seat on the SeattleCity Council has begun — again. It will be another Seattle political battle powered in part by the city’s Democracy Voucher program. Seattle leaders are still sorting out exactly how the program has changed elections in the city even as efforts are being shaped to create a new voucher program here that could power another key element of democracy: newspapers and news websites like CHS.
Voters will be asked to renew the existing Democracy Voucher program next year.
“I look forward to seeing refinements to the program that help it better reach its public policy goals and increase awareness!,” Alex Hudson, who utilized the program in her race against Joy Hollingsworth last November in District 3, said.
“Seeing usage increase would be great,” Hudson says.
In 2015, voters passed multiple campaign finance reforms which led to the birth of democracy vouchers. To fund the Democracy Voucher Program for a total of ten years, voters approved a property taxation of $3 million annually. According to the city, the program costs the average homeowner around $8 per year, and properties involved include commercial, businesses, and residential facilities.
Under the program, candidates using democracy vouchers to run for the eligible positions of mayor, citywide council seats, or council district seats must agree to a fundraising cap. Hollingsworth and Hudson were capped at just over $187,000 for the cycle. The cap can be lifted if an opponent or third-party political action committees spend more.
In the D3 race, Hollingsworth received a total of 6,016 democracy vouchers, which reeled in $150,400 — about 70% of her total contributions. Hudson garnered 4,722 democracy vouchers that brought in $118,050 for her campaign efforts — also about 70% of her total.
But many D3 democracy vouchers never made it off the breakfast table. Only around 30,000 vouchers were collected in the 2023 races meaning tens of thousands of vouchers went unused. Continue reading →
The Seattle City Council’s transportation committee will be busy Tuesday morning debating a resolution to adopt Mayor Bruce Harrell’s proposal for the city’s next major plan for transit, street, sidewalk, and bridge projects across Seattle. The plan is considered a framework for the city’s upcoming transportation levy renewal, according to a council memo.
If approved by the committee and the full council, the resolution would adopt the plan that shapes plans for multiple modes of movement and travel including transit, vehicles, bicycles, freight, pedestrians, Vision Zero, and more, “and will likely inform the investments in the upcoming Seattle Transportation Levy,” a council brief on the Tuesday session reads. Continue reading →
A Capitol Hill 7-Eleven was victimized by an armed robbery late last Tuesday night.
According to a Seattle Police brief on the incident and East Precinct radio updates, an accomplice and the masked gunman entered the 15th and Denny store and pointed a “black semi-auto” handgun at the cashier just after 11:30 PM. The suspects then proceeded to grab cash out of the register before fleeing the store.
Police say it was reported the suspects fled the area in a silver SUV but officers were unable to locate the vehicle.
There were no reported injuries and no arrests.
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It has been one year since Elijah Lewis was killed in a road rage shooting and loved ones and supporters gathered to call for extra scrutiny in the case involving a white man accused of shooting and killing a black man in the middle of a busy early evening on the streets of Capitol Hill.
The path to justice in the case continues.
Defendant Patrick Cooneypleaded not guilty in the April 1st killing and has remained jailed on $2 million bail since.
Court proceedings have been mostly quiet in the case with hearings that have repeatedly pushed back any trial date. Court filings show the most recent hearing called for an October 2024 start. Continue reading →
The pared-back Healthy Streets program has lived on in corners of the city including the Central District, providing hope for advocates wanting to make Seattle safer for bikers, pedestrians, and the drivers who love them.
The Seattle Department of Transportation has announced it is making new investments to the Healthy Streets routes through the CD that are hoped to add new solidity to an effort criticized for a half-baked approach that depends on flimsy signs and driver goodwill.
According to the SDOT announcement, the Healthy Streets routes along 22nd Ave and E Columbia are lined up for new features to be constructed in 2024 and 2025 including a planned new vehicle divider at the busy 22nd and Union intersection that would be installed as early as this summer to do more to protect the routes from car and truck traffic.
“To further improve safety for people walking and biking along the north end of the Central District Healthy Street and discourage cut-through traffic, we’re excited to announce that we will construct additional safety enhancements at the intersection of 22nd Ave and E Union St,” the announcement reads. “These enhancements will include installing a new median on the south side with a cut-through for people biking, restricting vehicle turns from E Union St onto 22nd Ave, and restricting vehicle access southbound onto 22nd Ave from the intersection.”
The changes at 22nd will include installation of a “new median with bike cut through on south side of intersection” to block motor vehicle traffic, and elimination of left turns in both directions from 22nd Ave onto E Union. Continue reading →
There will be no Capitol Hill or Central District locations on the list of planned expansions for new off leash areas in Seattle.
Seattle Parks announced the results of its studies and selection process and has designated two new areas near West Seattle Stadium and Othello Park to be developed to include an official city “Off Leash Area.”
The parks department also named a roster of areas suitable for future off leash development when funding is available — none of those will include Central Seattle locations, either. Those future sites include Ravenna Park, Brighton Playfield, and East Queen Anne Playfield. Continue reading →
A man suffered multiple knife wounds and was rushed to the hospital in serious condition in an overnight assault amid Pike/Pine last call crowds early Sunday morning.
Seattle Police and Seattle Fire were called to the 1500 block of 10th Ave near Elliott Bay Book Company just before 2 AM and found a man bleeding from multiple knife wounds. SPD confirmed it was investigating a stabbing and said the victim was taken to Harborview. UPDATE: Seattle Fire says the victim is a 26-year-old man who was in stable condition.
According to East Precinct radio updates, a witness report said the suspect was wearing a red track suit and part of a group of males in their teens or 20s but police had little additional information to go on.
Police reported no arrests.
UPDATE x2: SPD has posted a brief with a few additional details and is asking anyone with information about the assault to call the Violent Crimes Tip Line at (206) 233-5000.
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