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Police respond to situation involving ‘armed subject’ at Capitol Hill’s Broadway Market — UPDATE: Suspect ‘in custody’

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Seattle Police locked down the area around the Broadway Market QFC and the shopping complex’s gym and were telling people to stay clear of the 400 block of Broadway E after reports of an armed man inside the building.

Police confirmed they were “investigating reports of an armed subject” in the area.

UPDATE 8:10 PM: The suspect is reported “in custody” and the scene is reportedly secure. Seattle Fire has been called in to treat people at the scene. Please continue to remain out of the area.

UPDATE x2: The situation began drawing to a close just after 8 PM when SPD reportedly set off a flash bang explosion, setting off alarms throughout the building. The suspect was reported in custody soon after. Continue reading →

Chaotic scene at Broadway and Pike as driver hits woman during Seattle Fire response to deadly overdose

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A man died and a woman was taken to the hospital in a chaotic scene outside the QFC at Broadway and Pike as an overdose medical response overlapped with a pedestrian struck by a driver at the busy corner late Monday night.

According to Seattle Fire and emergency radio updates, a 30-year-old man died at the scene as medics responded to the reported drug overdose outside the grocery store just before 11 PM. Continue reading →

Broadway’s Pride is back — Big crowds, lots of love at Capitol Hill street festival, Seattle Dyke March, and Trans Pride rally

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With reporting by Soumya Gupta, CHS intern

Last year, Pride returned to its rightful space on Capitol Hill with a restoration of June celebrations on Broadway and in Cal Anderson Park after two years of pandemic delays and cancellations.

This weekend, Capitol Hill Pride jumped forward, catching up with past turnout — and then some — for the celebration of love and freedom on Capitol Hill with PrideFest filling Broadway and the park with vendor tents, tables, and activities organized by members of the community and local businesses honoring acceptance and inclusivity.

Bars and restaurants shared the streets with District 3 candidates and temporary tattoo vendors. Between the Broadway crowds and the weekend parties across the Hill and Pike/Pine, some businesses did a pandemic year’s worth of business on the weekend. But the receipts were surpassed by the vibes.

Capitol Hill’s Pride is back, baby. Continue reading →

Capitol Hill Pride Weekend 2023: Trans Pride, PrideFest takes over Broadway and Cal Anderson, and a new path for Seattle Dyke March

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A PrideFest scene from 2022 as Pride returned to its rightful space after years of pandemic cancellations and delays

75 F and mostly sunny. Sounds like it is time for PrideFest. The annual free Pride festival on Broadway and in Cal Anderson returns Saturday as a centerpiece to LGBTQIA+ celebrations across Capitol Hill this weekend. Also check out our news on the important changes for the annual Dyke March. The PrideFest 2023 schedule is below along with the rest of the highlights from the weekend around the Hill. Happy Pride.

2023 CAPITOL HILL PRIDE

  • FRIDAY JUNE 23RD: TRANS PRIDE SEATTLE — Trans Pride Seattle got back on its feet in 2022 — but not in time to be part of celebrations in June. This year, the celebration of transgender freedom continues its new tradition of gathering in Volunteer Park with a Friday night rally and party. Continue reading →

Starbucks illegally meddled with worker testimony in fight over Capitol Hill cafe unionization, labor board rules — UPDATE: Strike!

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Starbucks has lost another round in its ongoing legal fight against unionization at its stores across the country and here on Capitol Hill.

In the latest in a string of rulings against the coffee giant, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Starbucks illegally hampered a worker at its Broadway and Denny store from testifying at a board hearing. Continue reading →

The last Seattle Dyke March (as we know it) moves off Broadway and into the streets around Volunteer Park

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A rider in 2022’s march

By Kali Herbst Minino

Capitol Hill Pride weekend tradition the Seattle Dyke March is moving off Broadway into Volunteer Park to distance itself from the Seattle Police Department and to set a new course for its future role in the city’s LGBTQIA+ celebration.

“The Seattle police have a very, very long, long history of corruption,” organizer Jill Mullins tells CHS. “They don’t make a lot of people in the community feel safe.”

The Saturday, June 24 march will now begin in the park and pass along 13th Ave E, 14th Ave E, and E Mercer.

Organizers at Seattle Dyke March, the group that puts on the march and other LGBTQ+ community events, changed their rallying point of nearly 30 years for a mix of logistical reasons rooted around avoiding police involvement. Continue reading →

Bringing its ‘Beeriodic Table’ to Broadway and Union, Stoup taking over Capitol Hill’s Optimism Brewing

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(Image: Optimism Brewing)

(Image: Stoup Brewing)

Two Seattle breweries born just under 10 years ago are combining, bringing an end to Capitol Hill’s Optimism Brewing. But the woman-owned, scientifically-minded beer making will continue and the taps will still flow at Optimism’s auto row-era showroom transformed into a modern Capitol Hill beer hall.

Ballard-born Stoup Brewing and Optimism announced the planned acquisition and were busy telling employees and customers about the plans over the holiday weekend.

“We love that it is continuing. We built it as a place that we wanted to go to and it’s going to stay exactly as it is,” Optimism co-founder Troy Hakala said Monday. “And Capitol Hill is getting great Stoup beer.”

At Union and Broadway, new signs and a few changes will go up over the summer as the tap lines fill with Stoup’s creations and the production vats shift, but Stoup’s Lara Zahaba says the hope is for Optimism’s spirit to continue in the 16,000-square-foot brewery that has been lauded for its aesthetics and community-friendly design including spacious open seating and an impressively vast all-gender restroom.

“I hope the feelings will be very similar,” Zahaba said. “Really Stoup and Optimism have a lot in common. Locally owned, neighborhood breweries. Inclusive.”

“My hope is people will have that feeling of Optimism when drinking Stoup beers,” she said.

New beer, new signage, and a new color scheme are coming but the rest of the changes will be minimal — “We will Stoup-ify the space to a certain degree,” Zahaba quipped — for what has been a working recipe.

Craft beer looked very different, and had some misogynist and angry streaks when they started the brewery a decade ago, Optimism’s Gay Gilmore said.

“We tried to make it super approachable. I think a lot of craft is doing the same now. They figured it out.”

Gilmore says Stoup is part of that craft beer change. “Their values are just as inclusive as Optimism,” Gilmore said.

Under the planned deal, Stoup will take over the brewery and beer hall while Optimism founders Gilmore and Hakala will retain ownership of the 1920-era Maker Building they purchased after the Polyclinic shifted plans and put the property up for sale for expected redevelopment. Continue reading →

A new rainbow landmark on Capitol Hill, application process begins for Pride Place ‘affordable, affirming housing for LGBTQIA+ seniors’

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The green roof is covered with vegetation and solar panels

There is another type of important Pride event happening this week on Capitol Hill.

Thursday, the application process for new Broadway affordable senior housing development Pride Place opened to interested residents. Move-ins are expected to begin in September. Hundreds are expected to apply for one of the building’s 118 studio and one-bedroom units neighboring queer dance club Neighbours.

Calling its project “affordable, affirming housing for LGBTQIA+ seniors in the heart of Capitol Hill, Seattle,” developer Community Roots Housing says it is working with community partner GenPride to put the final touches on the building this summer. Continue reading →

Ditched phone generates crash alert but SPD can’t track down stolen SUV in Broadway armed carjacking

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Seattle Police were investigating after a car was stolen at gunpoint from the gas station at Broadway and Pike early Wednesday morning.

According to East Precinct radio updates and the SPD brief on the incident, a male brandishing a handgun and an accomplice ripped off the black Hyundai Tucson around 1:30 AM from the 76 service station. The driver told police the compact SUV was a rental car. Continue reading →

After years of plans, new ‘protected left’ signals and transit-only turn lane coming to busy intersection of Broadway, John, and E Olive Way

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The Seattle Department of Transportation is finally ready to complete the long-awaited “Broadway and John Street Signal” project. Construction will begin later in June on a two-month project to create new protected left-turns and a “transit only left-turn lane” at the heavily used intersection fronting Capitol Hill Station and the concentration of Metro bus stops serving the area.

Boiled down by time and shifting funding sources, the proposal born years ago from community feedback will finally take shape this month to make the busy mix of pedestrians, bikers, and drivers at the intersection of Broadway, John, and E Olive Way a safer space.

Starting the week of June 19th, crews will begin work to rebuild the traffic signals to have protected left turns “where left turning drivers have the red while people walking and biking as well as oncoming traffic have the green,” SDOT says.

The project will include rebuilding the traffic signals at the intersection of Broadway and E Olive Way/E John, adding new “left turn pockets” and a “separated signal phase” for eastbound traffic on E Olive Way, installing a new transit-only left turn lane for westbound E John, and removing an area of in-street bike parking “to accommodate transit turning movements.”

For people on foot and bikes outside the busy transit station, the changes are hoped to bring more time and safer crossings while the new transit-only lane will help ease the way for buses. Continue reading →