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911 | SPD reports two arrested during confrontation over Cal Anderson camp clearance

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  • Cal Anderson camp clearance arrests: Seattle Police made two arrests Thursday morning after a group reportedly would not leave an area of Cal Anderson where workers were clearing an encampment. According to the SPD report on the incident, police were confronted by a group of eleven as workers at the site were “conducting an Obstruction clean with the Seattle Parks Department” around 8:30 AM. “Officers made the decision to affect an arrest on one of the activists. Immediately the other activists jumped in to unarrest the subject,” the SPD brief reads. “This led to another arrest and a line was set up to keep the remainder of the activists back.” SPD says one of the arrested was identified and released while the other was booked into King County Jail. There were no reported injuries.
  • Madison Valley ripoff: Police say thieves used a stolen truck to rip the front doors off a Madison Valley business early Sunday morning doing $20,000 in damage and making off with stolen goods from inside the shop. According to SPD, police were called to the 3100 block E Madison business just before 5 AM after the store’s owner reported security video showing two suspects inside the store. Police arrived to find the store had been ripped open by the large asphalt construction truck reported stolen the week before in Issaquah but the suspects had already fled the scene. There were no arrests and no injuries.
  • Central District gunfire: SPD says it investigated gunfire early Sunday near 26th and Fir:
    At approximately 0023 hours, there were numerous reports of shots fired in the area of 26 Ave & E Fir St. Witnesses heard a vehicle speed off southbound afterward. Officers arrived and located 17 9mm FCC’s of two different brands (USA & CBC). There were no victims. Patrol processed the scene, spoke to witnesses and collected evidence.
 

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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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Work set to begin to repair Cal Anderson’s buckled sidewalks and save park’s Red Sunset Maples

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(Image: SDOT)

Amid the the major challenges facing Capitol Hill’s central park, this is a small one. But work could start next week on a plan to save Cal Anderson’s Red Sunset Maples while also making it easier for everybody walking and rolling along the eastern edge of the popular park.

The Seattle Department of Transportation says work is tentatively scheduled to start Monday on a three-block project that will combine a variety of strategies including moving some areas of sidewalk, installing metal sidewalks that can leave more space for roots, and planting more trees along the park in an effort hoped to be wrapped up before the end of the year to replace cracked and buckled sections of sidewalk while preserving the park’s canopy.

“When this project is completed, we’ll have safer, smoother sidewalks for people walking and rolling, especially people with disabilities,” SDOT said in a statement sent to CHS. “At the same time, we’ll have more space for the street trees.” Continue reading →

Cops and clearance crew move Black Lives Memorial Garden campers from Cal Anderson — UPDATE

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(Image: Matt Mitgang/CHS)

Seattle Police and members of the city encampment clearance workers were at Cal Anderson Park’s south end Wednesday morning to move tents and tell campers around the Black LIves Memorial Garden to move along. A notice provided a phone number for campers to call to find out more about shelter options.

Wednesday’s efforts appeared focused on the tents and campers and did not involve the arrival of any heavy equipment like the type that was delivered by Seattle Parks to the area in late October. Continue reading →

Murder investigation: Police say homeless man found down on Capitol Hill of apparent self-inflicted stab wounds was actually shot

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Seattle Police say a man found critically injured on Capitol Hill earlier this month had been shot and later died of his injuries. Detectives are seeking help from the public to unravel the case.

They say the victim lived unhoused on Capitol Hill and made camp in a hammock in Cal Anderson Park.

CHS reported here on the Thursday, October 5th incident in which the down man was found outside Cornish College’s Kerry Hall on E Roy in an incident that SPD initially said appeared to have involved self-inflicted knife wounds.

But SPD said Wednesday it was determined the man had been shot. The hospital notified police a week later, SPD says.

“While at the hospital, the 45-year-old male victim never regained conscious and succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday, October 17th,” SPD reports. Continue reading →

Seattle Parks backs down — for now — as heavy equipment moved in for BLM garden removal from Cal Anderson Park

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(Image: Matt Mitgang)

(Image: Matt Mitgang)

Seattle Parks crews backed off and Seattle Police stood by after a small but spirited crowd of supporters gathered Tuesday morning to stop the removal of the Black Lives Memorial Garden from Capitol Hill’s Cal Anderson Park.

The early morning standoff played out around the so-called “sun bowl” area of the park where heavy equipment had been rolled in for the removal of the garden that was established during the Black Lives Matter and CHOP protest in the summer of 2020. Continue reading →

Black Star Farmers holds community gathering to save garden in Cal Anderson — UPDATE

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UPDATE: With volunteers remaining at the site through the weekend, the “turf restoration” work, so far, has been on hold

 

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As they did in August for a stewarding event where they gathered medicinal herbs from Cal Anderson Park, the Black Star Farmers group is inviting a gathering at the park’s Black Lives Memorial Garden hoped to span all of Friday. It’s the same day the Seattle Parks Department said it was planning to begin its “turf restoration” process that will remove the garden first created during the 2020 Capitol Hill Occupied Protest that filled the area with camps and demonstrators.

“Gather in the garden tomorrow – FRIDAY OCTOBER 13 👻 Community members are planning a full day of activities in support of the garden,” the group’s invitation reads. “We will start the morning with Communi-Tea & Yoga from 7-10AM and have an all-ages Garden Party from 12PM-10PM where we will have potluck food, garden stewarding, music, speakers, art making and an art gallery! Please bring plates, utensils, & grillables to share if you can!!” Continue reading →

Call to save the Black Lives Memorial Garden after city announces Cal Anderson ‘turf renovation’ plan — UPDATE: two weeks notice

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The garden in October 2023 — from the CHS Facebook Group

The garden in June, 2020

A Seattle Parks project to restore grass to the amphitheater bowl on the south end of Cal Anderson Park will bring an end to a community garden shaped during Seattle’s Black Lives Matter protests. The Black Lives Memorial Garden has been one of the few enduring monuments to the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest of the summer of 2020.

A Seattle Parks official confirmed the department will begin the turf restoration project planned for this week but declined to provide more information citing the Indigenous Peoples’ Day holiday at Seattle City Hall.

A letter reportedly posted by the Black Star Farmers group that has grown around the garden is calling for the city to back off its plans, saying city officials reached out to “request that we relocate the garden to Rainier Community Center in South Seattle.” The letter calls on supporters to gather at the garden for organizing meetings and “occupy the space.”

“Of course, showing up to the garden in the upcoming week and continuing to care for and occupy the space is always an option to show directly that we reject their plans to remove the garden,” it reads. “Now is the time to show up and get organized.” Continue reading →

After an eight-story development north of Cal Anderson fell through, 180 affordable housing units may be coming instead

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A rendering of the planned affordable Alnus building as viewed from 11th Ave E (Image: Hybrid Architecture)

By Cormac Wolf, CHS Intern

After a San Francisco development firm backed out of plans to build an eight-story apartment complex, the Seattle developer of five parcels of land north of Cal Anderson Park has pivoted and is proposing an affordable housing project. The challenges and opportunity are indicative of the the difficulties of developing new housing in Seattle — even if the apartment units could help address the city’s housing crisis with 180 new affordable units.

Ben Maritz, founder of the Great Expectations development company, says their new vision is still tentative this early in the process, but it includes a housing development with around 180 affordable units, a coffee shop and a daycare, both of which he points out are lacking in the immediate vicinity to Capitol Hill Station.

We reported earlier this year on Carmel Partners backing out on a previously planned market-rate apartment development despite millions in sunk costs due to economic condition in the city: high interest rates and higher construction costs.

Carmel’s exit left Maritz’s funding in limbo. His best hope going forward is pursuing an affordable housing project, as it brings a suite of public funding not available to other projects, though he says the application will be competitive.

“We’re not the only ones with this problem,” he says. “I’m sure many other people will have the same idea, and there is a lot of funding but not infinite funding.” Continue reading →

With limited seats, premium sushi, Ltd Edition wins spot on ‘America’s best restaurants’ list

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Tsukasaki and Kobayashi “testing” the sake (Image: Ltd Edition Sushi)

Capitol Hill’s Nagle Place is home to one of “America’s best restaurants.” The New York Times has added to the buzz around Ltd Edition Sushi by naming the eight-seat sushi bar to this year’s roster of the 50 best food and drink places in the country, one of only two entries from Washington and the only Seattle venue on the list.

“The chef Keiji Tsukasaki came to the sushi craft somewhat later in life, after more than a decade in the nightlife world, and he presides over the eight-seat counter with an impresario’s charisma,” the New York Times says of the star behind the counter.

Ltd hasn’t been an overnight sensation. CHS reported here in the summer of 2021 as the venture launched across from Cal Anderson Park while the area was still in the grips of the COVID-19 crisis and its impacts on bars and restaurants. Keiji Tsukasaki’s restaurant found itself faced with building early business by selling premium omakase boxes while its plans for the sushi bar waited on standby. Later that year, those plans went fully into motion as Jun Kobayashi, former head sushi chef at Shiro’s, joined the Ltd team as executive chef. Continue reading →