The Seattle City Council Tuesday afternoon is expected to pass legislation to suspend “required design review” meetings for six months while it works out new rules and an overhaul of the program intended to give the community information and input on major development projects in the neighborhood.
The proposed legislation would “temporarily suspend required design review for six months, making design review voluntary for proposed development.” Continue reading
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By Matt Dowell
Families with high schoolers seeking a collegiate head start have an option back in the neighborhood for the start of the 2025-2026 school year. Middle College High School, which offers Seattle Public School system students a tuition-free college education as part of their four-year high school program, has relocated to Seattle Central’s campus after a year in Rainier Beach.
At Middle College High School, classes of around twenty students spend their 9th and 10th grade years earning high school credits. In their 11th and 12th grade years, they enroll in Seattle College’s Running Start program where they begin earning college credits and potentially an Associates Degree while they finish high school. Though any SPS student can attend MCHS, their primary aim is to “increase the college success of students that are the first in their families to attend college, those impacted by systemic racism and/or those impacted by poverty.” Continue reading
The man shot and killed in his SUV at 10th and Pike Wednesday night has been identified.
The King County Medical Examiner says that 26-year-old Robert Fleeks died of multiple gunshot wounds in the 9:30 PM slaying. Continue reading
The Seattle School Board has delayed a vote that could bring return a Seattle Police officer assigned to Garfield High School.
The board has been lined up Wednesday to decide on a proposed School Engagement Officer pilot program hoped to support “safety, not discipline” as officials have worked to address concerns about gun violence and gang activity around the 23rd Ave campus. Continue reading
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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
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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
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
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
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
