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Effort grows to keep Cal Anderson Park busy and safer with event and gathering spaces — and not a fence in sight

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The shelterhouse (Image: CAPA)

With reporting by Hannah Saunders

As the city is gathering feedback on activation strategies it hopes could help address public safety concerns around three Capitol Hill parks including one the parks department said it needed to fence off to reset after bouts of “negative park activity,” a resource at the center of the neighborhood’s most important park should become a bigger part of the mix of activities at Cal Anderson in the year ahead.

A year ago, the Cal Anderson Park Alliance reactivated the park’s shelterhouse as a means of providing a free space for neighborhood residents to utilize for game nights, meetings, activities, and more. Since this launch, the group says the shelterhouse has been used almost daily, there will be places to sit and hang out in the nearby Capitol Hill Station plaza, and funding coming down the pipeline will allow for additional staffing hours for the shelterhouse and the nearby Cathy Hillenbrand community room, stretching opportunities for the public.

“There are so few spaces that you can reserve that don’t cost a lot of money, that aren’t a pain to get to, and we have tried to make this as accessible as possible,” Brie Gyncild of CAPA told CHS. “Out of both spaces now, we’re seeing more community feed opportunities…it’s just about anything you can think of; there are support groups that meet regularly, there are a lot of community meetings.” Continue reading →

There are still single family-style homes across from Capitol Hill Station

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

A long-running effort to replace a set of old single family-style homes and duplexes north of Cal Anderson and across the street from the mixed-use development above Capitol Hill Station with a new eight-story apartment building is moving forward this summer.

There is still a long path ahead including the public process around a proposed rezone to allow the project to rise to 85 feet even as the city is going through the final months of settling out a compromised overhaul of its zoning hoped to more equitably distribute growth across Seattle as part of its new 20-year plan.

Developers behind the Alnus project in the 100 block of 10th Ave E have filed paperwork for land use and construction permits for the planned affordable, eight-story, multi-family building with 221 residential units above an underground 30-stall parking garage.

Affordable housing developer Great Expectations says the 10th Ave E project’s design will require a contract rezone with the city. Continue reading →

Cal Anderson protest: No charges (yet), Parks says nope to August, FBI threat, and ‘mostly silent’ vigil planned outside Seattle church

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The Seattle Police Department has referred one case to prosecutors out of the 23 people arrested in the Saturday, May 24th counter-demonstration against an anti-trans and reproductive rights Christian rally in Cal Anderson Park while city officials have been loud and clear that another rally planned for August won’t take place on Capitol Hill.

Meanwhile, a vigil is being planned for Sunday outside one of the Seattle churches behind the provocative events. Continue reading →

Need some Cal Anderson spring time at your desk? Stop by the ‘4k Seattle Park Cam Project’

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A still from the latest 4k Seattle Park Cam Project livestream

This spring, there is a camera on Cal Anderson Park.

“Hey Seattle – What a beautiful day! I enjoy window watching so as a little project, I set up a 4k camera to record a live stream 4k time lapse of a Seattle park for anyone who might find it interesting,” last week’s post to Reddit’s to r/Seattle reads.

The park at the center of the project? Capitol Hill’s Cal Anderson.

The poster with a view from the north said their plan was to convert the live video to time lapse scenes but the project is also filling up this YouTube channel with livestreams and a growing archive of the busy park by day and night.

The result is almost as nice as a spring visit. Stop by to tune in if you need a few moments in the park wherever you may be.

 

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Nagle Place ‘shank’ stabbing sends one to hospital

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A woman was rushed to the hospital in critical condition after a stabbing Saturday morning on Nagle Place west of Cal Anderson.

Police and Seattle Fire were called to the street near the park’s fountain around 9:30 AM where the victim was reported down and uncious.

A woman man in critical condition from stab wounds was reported transported to Harborview by Seattle Fire, according to police radio updates. UPDATE: SFD says the victim was a man in his 30s.

The suspect used a “shank” in the attack, according to police radio.

According to radio updates, police were able to learn the identity of the alleged attacker and were searching the area for a man matching his description. Continue reading →

Glo’s Diner — now with organized workers in its new home above Capitol Hill Station — ready to open in May

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The Glo’s crew and what we presume is a “negotiating table” — now organized (Image: Restaurant Workers United)

Opening… soon

When it opens in May in its spacious new home above Capitol Hill Station on the edge of the AIDS Memorial Pathway plaza, Glo’s will be a new place. There will be loads more room for customers and espresso and breakfast cocktail service.

And its workers will be unionized, organized together to improve pay, benefits, and working conditions.

“There are ideas about how our workplace can improve,” cook and organizer Sean Case tells CHS. “We believed we were the people to decide that.”

Restaurant Workers United, a worker-led union for restaurant, bar, and cafe workers, announced this week that Glo’s ownership voluntarily recognized the unionization effort, “forming the first independent restaurant union in Seattle in several decades.”

Case said employees at the now 37-year-old diner value and respect Glo’s and that the conventional wisdom pitting ownership vs. workers needs to wither away.

“We all love Glo’s — but anyone knows the industry has serious problems. People are underpaid, the work is on hard on the body, tons of exploitation.” Continue reading →

Take an AIDS Memorial Pathway tour with the man who helped make it possible

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Part of the Ribbon of Light installations (Image: AIDS Memorial Pathway)

Rasmussen

One of the driving forces behind the creation of the AIDS Memorial Pathway will help lead a tour of the art, history, and activism highlighted along the route connecting Cal Anderson Park to Capitol Hill Station.

Former Seattle City Councilmember Tom Rasmussen will join the Capitol Hill Historical Society for a May 7th walk along the pathway:

We will meet at the Station House Cathy Hillenbrand Community Room, which does not have an official address, but is at 10th Ave E and John Street. Once gathered, we will hear from Tom Rasmussen and then walk the pathway to learn about the stops along the way. The tour will run rain or shine, so come prepared for both scenarios. The walk will be slow and fairly flat, with some slight inclines, but attendees should be prepared to be on their feet for roughly an hour and a half.

“The project has three goals: to use public art to create a physical place for reflection and remembrance, to share stories of the epidemic and the diverse community responses to the AIDS crisis, and to provide a call to action to end HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination,” the group writes about the tour. “Today, this beautiful series of art works weaves its way through our every day neighborhood spots, from the farmer’s market to Cal Anderson Park. Here is a chance to explore the people and history behind the art and learn how it all fits together.” Continue reading →

CHS Pics | Caring for Capitol Hill just wants to clean up Cal Anderson Park

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With reporting by Alex Garland

You might forgive Seattle residents circa 2023 for being a little skeptical. Some community efforts in the city reek of politics and preying on the city’s least fortunate to make the case for crackdowns and arrests.

But Caring for Capitol Hill is no Safe Seattle or any of the other groups in the city that have emerged from the pandemic mixing public safety activism with volunteer efforts.

Sunday, CHS found volunteers with the loosely organized Caring for Capitol Hill group working with neighbors and a few representatives from nearby businesses and buildings to clean up the area around Nagle Place and Cal Anderson Park. Continue reading →

Capitol Hill Community Post | Capitol Hill Garage Sale Returns Sunday August 14th

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From the Cal Anderson Park Alliance

The Cal Anderson Park Alliance is thrilled to announce the triumphant return of the Capitol Hill Garage Sale Sunday, August 14, after a two-year hiatus. Residents all over Capitol Hill will populate their front lawns, apartment stoops and Cal Anderson Park with heirlooms, antiques, and bric-a-brac for sale as a part of the annual “CAPITOL HILL GARAGE SALE” from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Continue reading →

Rats and off-leash dogs — Two years after CHOP, a community conversation on safety in Cal Anderson

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By Hannah Saunders

This summer will mark two years since Cal Anderson Park was raided by police and cleared as part of the removal of the CHOP occupied protest. In the time since, community efforts boosted by the city have continued with hopes of helping to continually improve the park while addressing issues and public safety concerns. Many of the issues raised at a recent community meeting dedicated to the park trace back through the park’s history and involve smaller issues like varmints and off-leash dogs while mental health and addiction issues and the city’s homelessness crisis continues.

Safety in Cal Anderson Park was the primary topic of discussion at a Cal Anderson Park Alliance “Community Advisory Network” meeting, held online last Wednesday night. The goal of the conversation, organizers said, was to place safety of people as a priority, rather than the safety of property as a priority.

Initially, attendees hesitated when asked to speak up about how they feel about safety in the park, but after the co-chair of CAPA’s community advisory network, Erin Fried, shared her concerns about Cal Anderson being “a very ratty park,” other attendees soon chimed in.

“I feel perfectly safe. I mean, we’re a city. It’s a city environment, and I’m really excited to see people acting in the park,” said Bambi Chavez. Continue reading →