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One arrested after assaults, egg-tossing in midst of Capitol Hill Pride festivities — UPDATE: Police report

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Live streamers were active in the area through the day’s festivities

Seattle Police took at least one person into custody after a group was reported assaulting people and tossing eggs at officers in a disturbance on the north side of Cal Anderson Park in the middle of Pride festivities Saturday night.

Multiple units were called to the disturbance just after 7 PM near 10th Ave and E Barbara Bailey Way where officers reported the assaults were underway and a crowd of about 50 people had formed in the altercation involving individuals reportedly armed with a baseball bat and eggs. An officer was also reportedly hit by an “electronic noisemaker” thrown by one of the assault suspects during the melee as police moved in to bust up the disturbance. Continue reading →

Take a walk on Capitol Hill’s AIDS Memorial Pathway

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Forty-five years after the AIDS epidemic began, many still mourn lost community members and fight the stigma of a positive diagnosis. Today, an estimated 1.2 million Americans live with HIV — benefiting from improved medical care, yet still navigating life without a cure.

Above Capitol Hill Station, a 20-foot high sculpture made up of speakers creates an “X” above the plaza. Entitled ‘andimgonnamisseverybody,’ the piece is a backdrop to daily life in the neighborhood, from commutes to weekly farmers markets, and a central component of the AIDS Memorial Pathway.

Proposed by Seattle City Councilmember Tom Rasmussen in 2015, the AMP project got underway in 2017, beginning its fundraising, artwork selection and installation. It debuted five years ago on a hot and sunny Pride weekend on Capitol Hill.

“We wanted to have a visible site, a place that was physical and accessible that was relevant to the community,” Rasmussen tells CHS.

When the idea was first proposed, multiple locations were scouted throughout the city, but when Sound Transit confirmed the area north of Cal Anderson Park, above the light rail station, was available for local art installations, it seemed the perfect fit for an AIDS Memorial in the city.

“That’s our history — we were there. The gay bars were there, the community organizations were located on Broadway or Capitol Hill, the hospitals that treated those affected were all up there adjacent to or in the vicinity of that space,” Rasmussen reflected. “This is where people lived and died and were cared for.” Continue reading →

50+ photos of the signs, banners, American flags, giant frogs, and Marie Don-toinette’s cake from Seattle’s No Kings 3.0 march

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Saturday’s third edition of a No Kings march in Seattle brought out crowds to Capitol Hill’s Cal Anderson Park and plenty of protest and creativity as demonstrators showed they have the energy to continue to speak out against the exhaustingly autocratic Donald Trump.

National organizers from the 50501 and Indivisible groups claimed Saturday was “the largest single-day nationwide demonstrations in U.S. history” with “at least 8 million people gathered today at more than 3,300 events across all 50 states, and almost every continent.”

Seattle’s first No Kings march from Capitol Hill last summer was one of the largest gatherings in the state since a sea of people stretched miles from Cal Anderson for the Women’s March in 2018.

Saturday’s march coincided with the start of cross-lake service on Sound Transit’s 2 Line and the new Judkins Park Station.

More pictures from the protest, below.

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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)

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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 →