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
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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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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:
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
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he 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
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
Outer Planet’s final creation: the Golden Record DIPA with Peach (Image: Outer Planet)
The days of craft brewing Seattle beer in the core of the city on Capitol Hill are probably done. This week, tiny Outer Planet Brewing is marking its final rotations on 12th Ave.
“It’s hardly viable to run a craft brewery when the costs are what they are on the Hill,” co-owner Gabriel Villenave tells CHS. ”
Smaller breweries closing, consolidation of larger breweries taking over,” Villenave says is the general trend in the industry anyhow.
Outer Planet is set to close for good Saturday after giving neighbors and patrons a few weeks to say goodbye. Continue reading
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The Seattle City Council is set to approve legislation Tuesday afternoon hoped to help revive empty storefronts across the city by making it easier to open a new business without expensive building changes.
Under the legislation, the city would relax rules for “substantial alterations” to commercial spaces in small buildings and commercial spaces typically required when the official use is going to be changed. The proposal would exempt buildings and spaces with gross areas of 7,000 square feet or less from the change requirements that can make it prohibitively expensive to open a new business while also upgrading the structure and safety systems.
The legislation from Mayor Bruce Harrell’s office also would change the way the city triggers a “substantial alteration” by dropping the current two-year threshold. Currently, any space vacant for two years or more triggers an automatic “substantial alteration” to be put back into use. Continue reading
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Originally planned for a 2023 opening, there is good news above the waters of Lake Washington as Sound Transit is celebrating a key milestone this week: the first electric light rail train has successfully passed across the I-90 bridge connecting Seattle to the Eastside.
The opening of the line — and the Central District’s ready and waiting Judkins Park Station — is on track for 2026: Continue reading
Destruction! Thanks to Jonah for the pictures and report
The traffic circle at 11th and Denny is not the most secure place. Neighbors in the CHS Facebook Group were commiserating Monday over the sad destruction of the neighborhood rat gallery that had taken shape in the circle inspired by the nearby Saint Rat Mosaic in Cal Anderson Park.
The tiny gallery, the sculptures, and the “Take a Rat, Leave a Rat Exchange” might need another work party — and a new home.
CHS reported here on the “Hot Rat Summer” work party in July to restore the much-loved mosaic after the city painted over it during work on the historic Cal Anderson Gatehouse. Continue reading
