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With Eggslut coming to Melrose Market, breakfast sandwiches are hot stuff on Capitol Hill
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Eggslut already has a location on Melrose in Los Angeles — Las Vegas, Tokyo, Seoul, Kuwait, and London, too.
Soon the hyped breakfast sandwich chain will be in Seattle at Capitol Hill’s Melrose Market.
Permits have been issued for the buildout for the latest location in the “chef driven” company.
The price of eggs may be soaring but Eggslut hasn’t slowed down after growing from an L.A. food truck into a dozen high profile locations worldwide. Continue reading
‘WASH HANDS BE KIND’ — Remembering Capitol Hill in March 2020
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As of March 2025, officials say 30,223 in King County have been hospitalized with the virus. 3,881 have died here. The virus disproportionately preys on the most vulnerable but the hospitalization rate is now at an all-time low since the first outbreak. About 25% of King County residents have received the 2024-2025 updated vaccine. Continue reading
Nearby gunfire sends Nova, Garfield campuses into ‘shelter-in-place’
Nova and Garfield High Schools were placed into “shelter-in-place” status following a bout of gunfire reported blocks north of the schools just before 1:30 PM.
According to East Precinct radio updates, multiple 911 callers reported around 10 shots fired in the area around 1:27 PM.
Nearby Nova and Garfield activated campus security procedures while the Seattle Police Department investigated the situation. Both campuses were released from the secure status as police cleared the area and found no active incident.
Multiple shell casings were collected near 25th and Columbia but officers found nobody injured and no property damage at the shooting scene. Continue reading
The Summit hustlers: Weekly pool competition draws shot makers and neighbors to Capitol Hill pub
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By Matt Dowell
“Some fat ass cats show up here,” said Ronnie on a recent Wednesday night at the Summit Public House. He’s a regular at the pool table there and he’s been shooting pool on Capitol Hill since the ’90s.
Summit’s free-to-play table attracts good players on any night of the week. But for the last few years, a weekly Wednesday night tournament has become a center of the scene.
Show up around 7 PM on a Wednesday and you will see players warming up. A stack of cylindrical cue cases abuts the long bench at one end of the table. Competitors chalk up with focus, break racks with a whip crack heard around the bar. As Katy, the organizer, takes $10 buy-ins, she adds names to the bracket on a nearby TV screen.
It might look serious to an outsider, especially one who doesn’t play pool. But chat up a few people gathered around and you’ll quickly see there’s more to it than the game.
“They’re fat, but friendly cats,” Ronnie revised. “I like the competitiveness here, and the chill. Everybody’s friendly. Everybody polices themselves. You can come out here [to the patio between games] and smoke your cig, your doobie, your spliff.”
“It’s a good way to spend some time on a Wednesday night.”
Next for Seattle growth plan update process — ‘Interim Zoning Regulations’ to implement state middle housing rules
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The Seattle City Council heard updates Wednesday on the plan to put the first phase of legislation updating its comprehensive growth plan into place to meet new statewide requirements before an Olympia-mandated deadline does it for them.
Council comp plan committee chair Joy Hollingsworth is moving forward with “Interim Zoning Regulations” to implement the state’s “middle housing” legislation HB 1110 in Seattle. The committee is planning a May 21st vote on the legislation to establish the interim regulations with a vote of the full council expected May 27th. Continue reading
Wanna ride bikes? The I-5 Colonnade Park is getting two new pump tracks this spring
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This pump track in Port Angeles is an example of the setup’s appeal for riders small and large (Image: City of Port Angeles)
The Colonnade (Image: Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance)
Construction has started on a bicycle pump track project including a new paved track for young riders in a $314,000 overhaul of the city’s I-5 Colonnade mountain bike skills park below the busy freeway on the slope between Capitol Hill and Eastlake.
Seattle Parks and Recreation and the Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance announced the project is moving forward with construction slated to be completed before summer.
“One beginner-friendly, aMTB-friendly paved pump track; and one larger, steeper paved pump track are expected to be completed by the end of May,” the Alliance says.
The Alliance has been working to improve the bike recreation area challenged by homeless camping, litter, and the area’s steep slopes. It designed and built the Colonnade as “the first urban MTB skills park to open in the United States” when the space debuted in 2005. The Alliance began seeking funding for the new tracks in 2018. The group has been holding work sessions to help prepare the area for the new effort. Continue reading
Black Coffee Northwest: How Seattle City Hall, Vulcan Real Estate, and the goodwill of creating ‘a vibrant core for Black businesses’ in the Central District could not open a coffee shop at 23rd and Jackson
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A design rendering of signage for Black Coffee Northwest at 23rd and Jackson
Depending on who you ask — and if they are willing to speak on the record — there are lots of failures to blame at 23rd and Jackson. But the bottom line is this: Despite years of work from the city’s Office of Economic Development and one of its leading developers in Vulcan Real Estate, Mayor Bruce Harrell’s office, District 3 representative Joy Hollingsworth, and the goodwill of rebuilding Black ownership in this key core of the Central District, it seems unlikely Black Coffee Northwest will ever open at the corner.
“We have a staff trained and ready to go. My grand opening was planned,” owner DarNesha Bowman told CHS earlier this month.
Bowman went public this year with what she says has been a lack of support from Vulcan and the city falling short on promises to help the small business entrepreneur usher in what many hoped would be the start of a new era at 23rd and Jackson with her Black Coffee Northwest taking over a space being left behind by global coffee giant Starbucks over public safety concerns in the area. Continue reading
Huh? Proposal would create Seattle ‘Loud Music Venues’ earplug law
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Capitol Hill is a neighborhood of music. A Seattle City Council member wants to help protect your ears.
A bill discussed Wednesday morning by Councilmember Dan Strauss and his Finance, Native Communities, and Tribal Governments Committee would create new regulations requiring designated “loud music venues” to “offer patrons hearing protection with a noise reduction rating of at least 20 decibels, for free or for sale on the premises.”
“If hearing protection is offered for sale, at least one option must be offered for $1.00 or less,” a presentation (PDF) on the proposal reads. Continue reading
Seattle Council approves workforce housing and ‘affordable workspace’ plan for Stadium District
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The Seattle City Council approved a bill Tuesday from council president — and former beer brewery owner — Sara Nelson that will change the zoning in a small area near the city’s stadiums to allow the construction of “workforce housing and affordable workspaces for Seattle’s small manufacturing businesses.”
The hotly debated legislation split the city’s growth advocates and labor leaders over its potential creation of new development and construction jobs and its potential impact on operations at the nearby Port of Seattle. Continue reading
