‘The intermediary got a really good deal’ — County says development firm’s ‘flip’ of $42M Broadway Crisis Care Center property squares up

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A street view of the facility (Image: King County)

King County officials say that despite a Seattle real estate development group standing to make a cool $10 million or more on the flip, they are paying a fair market price for the Broadway and Union medical facility slated to be transformed into a new mental health Crisis Care Center by 2027.

The “assignment fee” in the county’s $42 million deal for the Polyclinic/Optum building has been a key issue for critics of the plan and was the center of questions from King County Council budget committee chair Rod Dembowski as his committee ultimately voted to move funding for the $56 million project forward earlier this month.

“A one year flip for $10 million? The intermediary got a really good deal,” Dembrowski said during the committee proceedings. Continue reading →

Hollingsworth to appear at Capitol Hill Community Council’s September meeting

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The Capitol Hill Community Council is marking the one year anniversary of its revival next week with a September meeting featuring Seattle City Councilmember Joy Hollingsworth.

The CHCC will be having its 1 Year Anniversary meeting September 24th 6:30-8pm at Seattle Central College (map) (and streaming and details). The first anniversary is traditionally paper, which seems fitting given all the posters that have been put up around the neighborhood.  The first meeting you might recall was the September 10th 2024. Even though it was the same night as the only Harris-Trump debate, so many people showed up that the CHCC had to turn people away.

The District 3 representative will be fresh off her work leading the council comprehensive plan committee to the finish the line for the city’s next 20-year growth plan and ready to dig in on her part in the council’s end of year budget work. Continue reading →

A third generation of owners at Capitol Hill cocktail classic Tavern Law

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Capitol Hill’s pioneering cocktail destination Tavern Law has new ownership, with Brazilian/American restaurateur Saulo Cruz and tech industry veteran Kenneth Jones taking over the 12th Ave establishment they hope to elevate while preserving what makes it special.

The duo represents an interesting blend of experience and fresh perspective. Cruz has operated La Fontana in Belltown for four years with another business partner — Rodrigo Parisi, managing partner of Capitale Pizzeria on Broadway.

Jones, who moved to Seattle just a year and a half ago, brings a hospitality-focused background from the tech industry.

Their partnership has an unexpectedly personal foundation. “His wife, I consider my adopted daughter because she is my daughter’s best friend,” Cruz explains. When both families moved to Seattle years apart, the connection deepened. “Her family is far away, so we took her in. She’s part of the family.” Continue reading →

Man found shot in vehicle at 10th and Pike — UPDATE: Homicide

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As police cordoned off the street, the vehicle the victim was found in remained in the middle of 10th Ave where the shooting took place (Image: CHS)

Thanks to a CHS reader for the photo

One man was reported shot in the neck and police were looking for multiple suspects who reportedly fled in a vehicle in a shooting Wednesday night at 10th and Pike.

According to East Precinct radio updates, police were called to the area around 9:30 PM where they found a seriously injured victim inside a gold Chevy Tahoe in the middle of 10th Ave.

Seattle Fire was called to the scene to treat the victim and take him to Harborview.

UPDATE: SPD reports the 26-year-old man was declared dead upon his arrival at the hospital.

Police were searching for three to four reported assailants last seen fleeing the area by car. Continue reading →

Police make arrest after Amazon delivery driver reportedly opens fire at 25th and Prospect — UPDATE

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A suspect was in custody and police were trying to sort out what went down after an Amazon delivery driver reportedly opened fire with a handgun in some sort of disturbance near 25th and Prospect on the eastern edge of Capitol Hill.

Police were called to the area just before 3:30 PM Wednesday to the reported shots fired incident and were given the challenging assignment of trying to track down an Amazon delivery van reported leaving the area. Continue reading →

Punk Rock Flea Market returns to Capitol Hill’s Quality Flea Center

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(Image: Google)

The Punk Rock Flea Market will rock 15th Ave E again this weekend.

The end of summer edition of the PRFM returns Friday, Saturday, and Sunday to the emptied neighborhood QFC it has been keeping active and in motion while developers wait to eventually dig in on a new mixed-use development on the street.

The transformed “Quality Flea Center” has also been the home of the CHASM Capitol Hill Autonomous Swap Meet every third Saturday as well as a random mix of events and markets.

It stands at the center of a block of temporary activity developer Hunters Capital has assembled while it waits for permits, construction crews, and financial conditions to align so it can someday demolish the block and dig in on a planned six-story development.

CHS reported here on the temporary stay for art and cafe space LOVECITYLOVE on the block. Another smaller commercial space is home to a temporary pop-up of Haunted Burrow Books and its offerings of “horror, dark fantasy, sci-fi, and other moody genres.”

Not everything new on 15th is temporary. Mac and Milo’s Barbershop has opened in the former Casita International Gift Shop space.

 

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A couple more neighborhood art notes: new Nagle mural, Howe Street Stairs pigeon, and quirky construction signs on Broadway

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The new Nagle Place mural (Image: Hunters Capital)

While patrons look for a new location for the Saint Rat rat gallery near Cal Anderson Park, here are a few more neighborhood art notes:

  • New mural: There is a new mural above Nagle Place on the back of the Broadway Building. Neighborhood real estate and development firm Hunters Capital says the work was painted by the Urban ArtWorks’ Base Crew,” a program for young artists to grow their design skills and connect with the community through art.” Continue reading →

Seattle sues ALURE, LABRAT, and NOMAS — and makes them famous — over alleged illegal tagging

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From the city’s lawsuit against the man police say is the NOMAS tagger

“LABRAT”

Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison says her office has filed civil lawsuits against “three prolific taggers responsible for thousands of dollars in damage to private and public property in Seattle.”

The suits are the first under legislation from the city attorney’s office passed by the Seattle City Council this summer opening the way for Davison to pursue civil damages for “criminal graffiti.”

Davison says the ordinance could hit the defendants with a “civil penalty of up to $1,500 per graffiti violation.” Continue reading →

Uncle Dom’s Italian Kitchen and Bar Tango: Two servings of Capitol Hill nostalgia coming to Pine and Summit

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The growth of a food and drink family at Summit and Pine will include two big scoops of Capitol Hill nostalgia with a new restaurant echoing the spirit of the neighborhood’s long gone “red-sauce joints” like Machiavelli and Vito’s plus a new bar honoring one of Capitol Hill’s one-time favorite date spots.

The Pike Street Hospitality Group has announced Uncle Dom’s Italian Kitchen and Bar Tango will open next month in the former E Pine Mezcaleria Oaxaca space: Continue reading →

Hollingsworth comprehensive plan amendments include new Roanoke Park Neighborhood Center, rolling back upzone around Swedish Cherry Hill

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Changes championed by District 3 representative and comprehensive plan chair Joy Hollingsworth that would scale back potential dense housing growth around her district’s Swedish Cherry Hill campus are part of the final sweep of proposals this week as the Seattle City Council finalizes a 20-year growth plan.

Publicola was the first to report on Hollingsworth’s proposed rollback of a plan that would have split the area around 18th and Cherry across new zoning areas.

CHS reported a year ago on the proposal to “fill in” the Squire Park neighborhood hole by splitting it across a more densely zoned Capitol Hill/First Hill Regional Center and the Central District Urban Center as part of the new 20-year growth plan.

Hollingsworth’s new proposal would maintain current zoning for the Squire Park areas bounded by 14th Ave on the west and 18th Ave on the east between E Pike and E
Alder and the area between 18th Ave on the west and 20th and 21st Ave on the east between E Pine Street and E Alder: Continue reading →