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Man stabbed in fight at Broadway Dick’s Drive-in

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A stabbing during a fight in front of the Broadway Dick’s Drive-in sent one man to the hospital early Thursday.

According to East Precinct radio updates, police responded to Broadway and Denny just after 2 AM where they found the man suffering from knife wounds to his chest. Police were looking for a man reportedly armed with a knife and a large stick who fled the scene.

According to the Seattle Police Department, the man who was stabbed was transported by Seattle Fire to Harborview in stable condition.

A search for the suspect including a K9 unit was unsuccessful. There were no reported arrests.

 

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Now lighting up mornings on Capitol Hill: Fuel’s Broadway counter and new starts for Bauhaus and Overcast

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What a difference a year makes. Capitol Hill’s coffee and cafe scene has gone from shrinkage to growth with the start of 2024. Fuel is rocking its new place in the Broadway streetscape, the reborn Bauhaus is born again, and Overcast has added its pulls to the Pike/Pine mix with a new space on 12th Ave.

At the top, the famed Vivace walk-up counter has new life as the books and coffee business family behind Fuel took over the caffeine bar with an end of 2023 neon-lit debut on Broadway.

CHS reported here on Fuel’s overhaul of the space below the Casa Del Ray apartments to be its fourth Seattle location and second on Capitol Hill as Vivace decided to end its decades of service at the counter over challenges around staffing and proximity to its Broadway Brix location. Continue reading →

Remembering Capitol Hill and the Central District’s victims in Seattle’s record year of homicides

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A memorial to Nakawa Beasley near 25th and Union

Along E Union in 2023, you could find people coming and going on their way to new restaurants, bars, shops, and an art center that have joined the neighborhood’s new development. You could also find a collection of flowers, keepsakes, and photographs remembering Nakawa Beasley, the 45-year-old gunned down on the street in a September driveby.

Beasley’s killing will be part of what has been an exceptionally deadly year in Seattle with homicides reaching a new high with more than 70 recorded in the city. The rate has jumped from 4.3 murders per 100,000 people five years ago to 9.6 in 2023 as surging gun violence has continued to rise after spiking during the heights of the COVID pandemic.

The areas around Capitol Hill and the Central District have not been especially violent in comparison with the rest of the city. The East Precinct has been responsible for about 17% of the city’s homicides over the past five years. This year, the precinct will account for around 13% of the city’s record total.

But there was a clear center for the East Precinct’s deadly violence in the year. Continue reading →

SPD investigating Cal Anderson stabbing and pepper spray incident — UPDATE

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Seattle Police found two people injured and bleeding after an altercation and stabbing on the west edge of Cal Anderson Park along Nagle Place Wednesday morning.

Police were working to determine the circumstances and were told the victim in the stabbing was able to pepper spray the assailant who reportedly fled to Broadway.

According to emergency radio updates, SPD found one person with a laceration to their face near the Cal Anderson reservoir pump house and another on Broadway suffering from a shot of pepper spray to the face and injuries to his hands. Seattle Fire was called to treat both men just after 8:30 AM.

The area along Nagle and Cal Anderson Park has been an ongoing problem for law enforcement that community groups identified as a “drug market” in need of public safety changes after a double homicide on the street earlier this year.

UPDATE: SPD has posted a brief on the incident:

At 0836 hours while assisting Parks Department in Cal Anderson Park officers heard someone yell from the west side of the park that they had been stabbed. Officers ran over to the male victim, he was bleeding from his face and head, and he pointed up the stairs to Broadway. He said that the suspect ran up the stairs. Officers gave chase and found the suspect in the business at the top of the stairs. The suspect was placed into custody without incident and was treated by SFD for pepper spray from the victim. The victim was treated by SFD on the scene and was transported to HMC for his non-life-threatening injuries.

 

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Cafe Haslla brings Korean bingsu and sweet waffles to Broadway

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(Image: Cafe Haslla)

It’s possible the 2020s might be the era of Korean food and drink on Capitol Hill. We noted the region’s outsized influence in the area this summer with the opening of Galbi Burger and its Korean-flavored burger options on Broadway. The explosion of Korean flavors on the Hill includes the highlights of Imo Pocha now serving in the old Glo’s space on E Olive Way and Galbi’s spiritual cousin in 2022-born Korean corn dog joint Korn Dog on E Pine. You might as well include the arrival of Korean grocer M2M above Capitol Hill Station.

Meanwhile, the class of 2023 also includes Korean fried chicken joint Sodam Chicken at 19th and Madison.

So, how about some Korean dessert? Cafe Haslla opened on Broadway near Seattle University this fall with a menu of sweet waffles and bingsu, its version of the Korean shaved ice dessert covered with toppings like the “Peach Lady” with peaches, peach puree, and vanilla ice cream. Continue reading →

As drugstore bankruptcy woes continue, Broadway Rite Aid joins Bartell Drugs in exit from Capitol Hill

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Shelves are bare inside the Broadway Rite Aid as Capitol Hill is losing two drugstores and pharmacies to close 2023.

Monday is supposed to be the final day of business in the big chain drugstore that made its home in the one-time Broadway Theater building at the corner of Broadway and E Olive Way. The old neon marquee advertising store specials and the everlasting “COME GET SHOTS HERE” message is a neighborhood landmark.

The Pennsylvania-based Rite Aid chain has yet to confirm the closure with CHS. It seems unlikely they’ll get around to doing so now. Continue reading →

A Capitol Hill Station cafe years in the making, Seasmith really will arrive in 2024

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Seasmith will have a lot in common with its Beacon Ave sibling Fable (Image: Fable)

Capitol Hill Station’s crowds of light rail passengers are back to pre-pandemic levels — and then some. The mix of apartments and new residents above the stations has created a busy new Broadway neighborhood. Now the hopes of new businesses above the nearly eight-year-old Seattle subway stop are also returning to pre-pandemic levels.

“I don’t think I could have imagined that a project could take us that long but back then,” Mathew Wendland, owner of Seasmith said. “But I also couldn’t have imagined any of the things we were all going to go through within COVID.”

Seasmith is the happily anticipated, long awaited coffee shop and casual hangout from the Burien Press family of businesses. It will have been in the works to join Capitol Hill Station’s new development at the corner of Broadway and E. Barbara Bailey Way for five years when it finally opens in 2024 joining the expanded Glo’s Diner (May 2023), and H Mart’s M2M grocery market (April 2022) as the development’s commercial tenants finally reach critical mass.

Seasmith will be “all day cafe, really looking at how do we create something that is activating every part of the day — coffee, fresh food in morning, full kitchen, lunch, dinner, beer, natural wine,” Wendland said about the project when we first spoke to him about it in 2021.

When it finally opens next year, Seasmith’s story will be one of pandemic challenges, transit oriented development bureaucracy, and creative perseverance. Continue reading →

Search underway for DJ who went missing before show at Broadway’s Q Nightclub

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A popular area DJ who never showed up at his show last week at Capitol HIll’s Q Nightclub has gone missing.

Family, loved ones, and fellow performers have joined the effort to help find Mark Martinez who has not been heard from since Wednesday before the show when he was scheduled to perform as Subset on a night before Thanksgiving bill with headliner Mija at the Broadway dance club.

Family hopes details of Martinez’s missing vehicle might help.

“Thank you for loving and caring about my brother,” his sister posted Monday. “He still has not been found. If you’re in the PNW his license plates should be easy to spot/ THNKFL4 on his black Toyota Rav 4.”

The 35-year-old Martinez’s last known location on the 22nd was Tacoma where he resides.

The Seattle Police Department is investigating. Continue reading →

Customers: Capitol Hill Bartell Drugs store set to join wave of closures — UPDATE

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Will the infamous messages on the Broadway Theater marquee become a thing of the past? (Image: CHS)

A wave of store closures shuttering drugstores across Seattle — and the country — will hit Capitol Hill. Customers will be left scrambling. Employees will lose their jobs.

Customers are being told Thursday they will need to move their prescriptions to another pharmacy — the entire Pike and Broadway Bartell Drugs will close in early December in the Harvard Market shopping center.

Customers also tell CHS the Rite Aid at the busy intersection of Broadway, John, and E Olive Way across from Capitol Hill Station won’t be an option — it is closing, too.

Rite Aid company officials haven’t confirmed details of the planned closures with CHS but customers say they are being informed of the impending Broadway/Pike shutdown and employees have said the Broadway Rite Aid will also be part of the closure. Continue reading →

Affordable, LGBTQIA+ focused, and neighboring Neighbours, Pride Place creates a new home for Capitol Hill seniors

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After decades of community hope, Pride Place is filling with residents.

On Broadway between Pike and Pine, the affordable housing for LGBTQIA+ seniors is the first of its kind in Washington. There are 118 new homes in the project. The conveniences of modern construction and quality windows will help keep dance club Neighbours a good neighbor.

The ribbon was cut on a cold fall night in late October but energy from the new senior residents cut the chill. Taking the stage was Laney, a resident of Pride Place who had been waiting a long time for queer elders to be placed at the forefront of the community’s needs.

“Pride Place is the kind of place my friends and I talked about in our 40s, something we could only dream about,” Laney said.

Pride Place is special. Applicants must financially qualify for the building that is utilizing “affirmative marketing” to reach out to underrepresented communities and help make the new building a home for the LGBTQIA+ senior community. The building cannot restrict leasing to queer-identifying seniors because of federal housing law. Instead, Pride Place is reaching out to LGBTQIA+ seniors who meet income requirements.

Laney was a longtime resident of Capitol Hill until COVID hit and she took to the road in her minivan, leaving behind her close-knit queer community. It wasn’t a decision she took lightly, while her travels over the next couple years were full of adventure she couldn’t forget those she had left behind.

“I missed my queer community,” Laney said. “I returned to Seattle but there was no way that I could afford my apartment on Capitol Hill any longer — I couldn’t return to my beloved neighborhood.” Continue reading →