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Design review next week for ‘U-shape’ development that will add 120+ new homes to Broadway’s Bait Shop block

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A project that will reshape a northern block of Broadway and demolish the more than 100-year-old structure home to Bait Shop and TRIBE Fitness to make way for a new six-story, 122-unit apartment building with retail and three live-work units plus underground parking for more than 100 vehicles will come before the East Design Review Board next week in what could be the project’s final step in the city’s public design process.

The development from Cascade Ridge Partners with a design from Studio Meng Strazzara is hoped to achieve a configuration that “continues the character of the Broadway E. corridor massing vernacular” with a U-shape concept while also addressing sensitivity raised in the previous design review phase about how the planned building can better relate to the mix of architecture on its 10th Ave E side. Continue reading →

Broadway at Pike makes city’s top 10 Crime and Overdose Concentration list — twice

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A neighborhood public safety walk focused on Broadway and Pike this spring

Broadway and Pike is so challenged by the confluence of addiction, mental health issues, and street disorder that it is listed twice in the City Auditor’s just-released report focusing on Seattle’s worst areas of “Crime and Overdose Concentration.”

Seattle City Council president Sara Nelson says she is acting immediately to enact recommendations from the new report focused on “existing resources and evidence-based strategies that have proved effective in other jurisdictions in addressing the overlapping issues of fentanyl-driven overdoses and crime.”

The dubious distinction for Broadway and Pike was arrived at by a Seattle Police Department and Seattle Fire analysis used at the base of the auditor’s report to determine where in the city crime and dangerous drug use were most overlapping. “We found that 10 continuous street segments had a combined count of crimes against persons and overdose incidents of 100 or greater, accounting for a disproportionate amount of co-occurrence,” the report reads.

Broadway from Union to Pine and E Pike “from 9th (Harvard) to 11th” were ranked in 6th and 10th place on the list, respectively. Continue reading →

Capitol Hill’s two QFCs on sale list in massive Kroger-Albertsons merger plans — UPDATE

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The Harvard Market QFC at Broadway and Pike

Kroger shut down the 15th Ave store three years ago

As Kroger and Albertsons work toward a $25 billion merger, there might soon be a Capitol Hill without any QFC grocery stores.

Both of the Broadway QFC locations are included on the “Planned Divestiture Store, Distribution Center, and Plant Locations” list (PDF) released Tuesday by the companies as they seek federal approval for the massive deal.

In Tuesday’s announcement, officials at QFC-parent Kroger and Albertsons said the merger will include the $1.9 billion sale of 579 stores across the country including 124 in Washington that would be acquired by C&S Wholesale Grocers, owner of the Piggly Wiggly brand. It is possible the Broadway QFC stores included in that deal could someday become Piggly Wiggly groceries.

It is also possible the Massachusetts-based company might have other plans as the industry continues to adjust to the soaring cost of labor and growing markets for grocery delivery. There were few promises for consumers in Tuesday’s announcements and, in a letter to employees, Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen said Tuesday only that the company is “confident that C&S will provide the transferred associates stability and opportunities to further enrich their careers with a growing company.”

The release of the list including the divestiture plans for the two Broadway QFCs comes amid major uncertainty for big brand grocery chains in the neighborhood. Continue reading →

Cheers! New Hong Kong-flavored bar and restaurant lined up for former Lionhead space on Broadway

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Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name is synonymous with dumplings and noodles. Prolific Seattle-area restaurateur Sen Mao is coming to Capitol Hill with the new Cheers! Hong Kong.

Posters showing an assortment of Fragrant Harbour delights including cocktails, bubble tea, and beer as well as the aforementioned dumplings and noodles have gone up in the windows of the former Lionhead on the northern reaches of Broadway. Continue reading →

Above Capitol Hill Station, Summit Community Center has grown into a place of belonging, connection, and independence

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(Image: Summit Community Center)

(Image: Summit Community Center)

Right in the middle of the lively chaos of Broadway, sits Summit Community Center, a place of belonging, connection, and independence for neurodivergent young adults and those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

The development above Capitol Hill Station with a mix of new food and drink spaces and new businesses might not seem like an obvious base for the effort, but Summit Community Center will celebrate its first year on Capitol Hill this month established as a “home away from home” for over 270 members.

CHS reported here on the early Capitol Hill plans for the start-up nonprofit dedicated to providing a needed service to young adults with disabilities ages 18-35, a population that is often isolated, particularly after completing their education and losing access to the wraparound services that were provided through schools. The center navigated a long capital campaign as it sought to raise three million dollars through donations to help create the classrooms and indoor recreational gym space as well as fund scholarships and support for membership.

Today, those plans are reality for Seattle families.

“What we’re doing is providing an essential space that offers those same supports and allows young adults to have a comfortable space where they can go and continue to learn and grow”, said Alicia Nathan, founding executive director of Summit Community Center.

Nathan says SCC offers a wide array of services for their members including continued education, shared interest clubs, independent living skills development, pre-employment transition, sports/fitness, and more in a city location with amazing transit service and proximity to Cal Anderson Park and the busy core of Capitol HIll.

“This is just where young adults want to be,” said Nathan. Continue reading →

Capitale Pizzeria, a pizza cousin to Belltown’s La Fontana Siciliana, coming to Broadway

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Rodrigo Parisi and Saulo Cruz (Image: La Fontana Siciliana)

A pizza-focused cousin of classic Belltown Italian joint La Fontana Siciliana is coming to Capitol Hill’s Broadway.

Plans for Capitale Pizzeria are underway in the space left empty by the sad end for the Boca family of food and drink after the death of founder Marco Casas-Beaux at 72 last year. CHS reported here on the closure of Casa-Beaux’s venues amid unpaid rent and legal issues.

Capitale Pizzeria will continue a Capitol Hill history of pizza in the 426 Broadway E space that Casas-Beaux’s Boca Pizzeria and Bakery called home. Before Boca transformed the address, it had been home to Broadway’s Pagliacci before the chain made a 2019 exit after nearly 40 years on the street. Continue reading →

CHS Pics | Broadway, Cal Anderson, and Volunteer Park filled with crowds and love as Seattle celebrates its 50th Pride

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PrideFest filled Broadway

The Dyke March mixed with the PrideFest street festival Saturday night on Broadway in a familiar and fun scene in the middle of Capitol Hill’s annual June celebration of queer community, culture, love, and, yes, commerce.

While Pride 2024 weekend didn’t have the sunny, blue skies of 2023, crowds still filled Broadway, Cal Anderson Park, and the AIDS Memorial Plaza where organizers also added Drag Queen Storytime and a pet drag show to the mix.

The night before, a sliver sky also greeted the 2024 edition of Trans Pride Seattle to its home this year in Volunteer Park where organizers at the Gender Justice League continued a grassroots ethos, forgoing corporate sponsorship, and sustaining the annual rally and party “to honor and carry the torch of our Transcestors who originated Pride as a means of both resistance and cultural communion.”

Friday’s Trans Pride

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Big response blocks Broadway as Seattle Fire makes quick work of Casa del Rey apartment fire

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Seattle Fire was able to quickly knock down an apartment fire with limited damage Friday afternoon in Broadway’s Casa del Rey building.

A major Seattle Fire Department response filled Broadway with emergency vehicles during the response as Seattle Police blocked the street to motor vehicle traffic and public transit. Continue reading →

Your Capitol Hill neighbor Melinda French Gates loves the neighborhood for the same reasons you do

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Capitol Hill has a lot going for it over the mansions of Medina.

In a June interview with Time Magazine about the philanthropist’s life after divorcing the world’s fifth-richest person, Melinda French Gates sounds quite a bit like the rest of us when it comes to describing what she loves about her new life in the city:

“I live in a neighborhood. Now I can walk to little stores. I can walk to the drugstore, I can walk to a restaurant,” she says. “I absolutely love it.”

Where is this lovely slice of city living? Capitol Hill. Business Insider reports that French Gates purchased “a cottage in the North Broadway neighborhood of Seattle weeks before the former couple filed for divorce in 2021” for $1.2 million. Continue reading →

‘Q’: The case of a murdered Broadway street artist is going cold

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It has been three years since Necia “Q” McKendrick-Mendez was murdered and her body left to rot hidden in a Capitol Hill park for a week. The killing was a street crime and will likely stay that way.

Seattle Police provided no updates to CHS on its investigation despite multiple inquiries to the department’s public information office over recent weeks on the three-year anniversary of the discovery of McKendrick-Mendez’s body next to a stream in Interlaken Park. At the time, police say the on-scene investigation yielded “no obvious information about the circumstances that led to the death” due to the condition of the body and the location in the area of the small, muddy stream.

Investigators determined the woman died of “multiple blunt force injuries” around May 23rd. She was 45.

McKendrick-Mendez’s family says they, too, stopped hearing from SPD long ago. Continue reading →