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911 | Madison gas station robbed at gunpoint, 12th/Cherry phone robbery, thieves boot passenger during Capitol Hill Uber heist

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  • Madison armed robbery: Seattle Police was searching for two teen suspects in a reported armed robbery Monday afternoon at the E Madison Shell service station. According to SPD, police were called to the station’s convenience store just after 2 PM to a reported robbery involving a firearm. Police say two suspects entered the business “demanding product from behind the counter.” When a worker in the back heard the demands and confronted the suspects, one suspect reportedly began assaulting the employees. The teen suspect then pulled out a pistol with an extended magazine and pointed it while robbing the store. The two suspects described as male and female teenagers fled on foot southbound on 17th and then west on Pike but could not be located by police. Seattle Fire was called to the scene to provide aid to one of the victims injured during the ripoff. An attempted canine track of the suspects could not be completed. There were no reported arrests.
  • 12th/Cherry phone robbery: Multiple victims reported having their phones stolen at gunpoint early Sunday morning in an incident near 12th and Cherry. SPD says the heist was reported just before 1 AM. According to police, the victims were robbed of their phones by a group including three females and two males, one reportedly armed with what appeared to be a rifle. The suspects were reported to have left the scene in a red Toyota SUV. One of the stolen phones was tracked to Renton where the police department attempted to contact the vehicle but it sped away and was not pursued.
  • Uber heist: An Uber driver said her Mercedes was boosted by two thieves as she loaded a passenger’s bags into the vehicle early Saturday morning on Bellevue Pl E. Police say two males jumped into the passenger and driver’s seat and told the Uber customer in the back seat to get out. As the Uber driver went to confront them, a suspect pushed her away and drove off. There were no reported injuries.
 

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City Council gives Acer House development rezone OK at 23rd and Cherry

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The Seattle City Council Tuesday signed off on a surgical rezone in the Central District that will allow the “Afrofuturist”-styled Acer House apartment development to move forward at 23rd and Cherry.

Tuesday’s vote to rezone seven parcels of land at the corner clears the way for the project to build to 55 feet instead of the 40-foot limit the properties are zoned for. Under the zoning where the Acer House building will stand, the allowed height is only 40-feet. However, in the commercial zone to the east, the higher limit is in place. Continue reading →

Puppies, live music, and beer — Boneyard indoor dog park and tavern coming to the Central District

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Dogs love beer including this good one we spotted at Chuck’s (Image: CHS)

The Central Seattle dog park experience is about to change with the addition of Boneyard, an indoor dog park and tavern set to join S Jackson.

Dagmar Rehse, dog lover and Boneyard owner, wanted to create a way for Seattleites and their furry friends to spend and enjoy time together away from their homes — even when it is raining cats and dogs in the city.

“Nine months out of the year you see these dog owners going to dog parks and suffering in the elements to let their dogs play,” Rehse said. “I wanted to create something more comfortable for the humans while their dogs are frolicking around.”

The new space at the corner of 26th and Jackson will be an indoor dog park and tavern, with boarding and doggy daycare for the dogs, and a bar for their owners to play “drink” at. While Rehse doesn’t live in the area, she did notice that the dog friendly neighborhood was missing this kind of hangout. It is also in an area beyond the higher rent neighborhood cores where the rent on a 3,267-square-foot space needed to give rover room to run pencils out.

And while there are many dog-friendly drinking venues around the Central District and Capitol Hill, the Boneyard is the only one centered on making a great, safe space for canine companions. It will also offer something no other beer hall around can offer — fur baby babysitting for dog owners who want a break while they crack a cold one.

Boneyard will be the first space that Rehse has opened, built by her love for dogs and a wish for a place where dog and owner can enjoy themselves together outside of their home. Continue reading →

The Twilight Exit plan: Open the new Neighbor Lady, hang out on E Cherry for a few more years, then reopen in the new building set to demolish its Central District home

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Neighborhood dive bar the Twilight Exit is still thriving on E Cherry despite living under an everlasting Seattle cloud layer of development and change. As the next mixed-use project that will displace it moves slowly forward in the development process, the bar’s owner tells CHS the Twilight plans to return to be part of the new four-story building when it opens and has a new deal in place for another year — at least — waiting for demolition of the 1950s era building it has called home since its move from E Madison 15 years ago.

“I’ve been running from the wrecking ball for a long time,” Stephan Mollmann says. Continue reading →

Garfield Super Block selected in catch-up round of Neighborhood Street Fund grants

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Backers of an effort to improve the public space around Garfield High School and the Garfield Community Center are celebrating another funding win for the Central District project.

A Seattle transportation levy oversight committee has chosen the Garfield Super Block program for a $475,000 grant in the latest round of the Neighborhood Street Fund. Unlike past years, this year’s process focused on clearing a backlog of NSF nominations. The project was one of nine selected by the committee on the basis of community support, equity, safety, and cost, and the only one in the bunch located within Kshama Sawant’s District 3.

The funding joins past financial infusions into the effort including $188,000 to help support planning in last year’s city budget. Estimates of the full cost of planning and construction for the Garfield Super Block project range around $6 to $7 million. Continue reading →

Mayor comes to Central District to call for support in battle against a ‘surge in graffiti in Seattle’ — UPDATE

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Repaired and restored (Image: Fat’s Chicken & Waffles)

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell will come to the site of widely condemned act of vandalism to a Central District mural Thursday to make the case for spending on new resources including a dedicated clean-up team to address what the mayor says is a “surge in graffiti in Seattle.”

Harrell Thursday is scheduled to appear outside MLK and Cherry’s Fat’s Chicken & Waffles where CHS reported in February on artist James Crespinel’s work to restore his mural of Martin Luther King Jr.  The large mural on the side of the building had been targeted during the city’s MLK Day celebrations with spray painted vandalism critical of the civil rights leader’s role as a centrist.

The mayor’s appearance is part of his push for new funding to combat graffiti and vandalism as the Seattle City Council works to finalize his 2023 budget proposal with bids to step back on reforms including spending to create a larger SPD and a controversial plan to redirect funding from the city’s big business tax from COVID-19 recovery, housing, and the Green New Deal to patch up the city’s general fund. Continue reading →

City offers help restoring Central District MLK mural

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The vandalism was covered by a coat of light blue paint (Image: CHS)

The community responded quickly to cover some of the damage. City Hall says it will help restore the neighborhood art after the Central District mural of the slain civil rights leader at MLK Way and E Cherry was defaced headed into Monday’s holiday.

Mayor Bruce Harrell says the city will offer its help in restoring the MLK mural after someone vandalized the artwork on the outside of the building home to Fat’s Chicken and Waffles. Continue reading →

Man in critical condition after 15th/Cherry alley shooting

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A 53-year-old man was critically wounded and Seattle Police were investigating after an alley shooting overnight in the Central District.

Multiple callers reported gunfire and a man was reported shot in the stomach near 15th and Cherry around 2:15 AM, according to East Precinct radio updates.

Seattle Police arrived and secured the scene for Seattle Fire to treat and transport the man to Harborview. Seattle Fire reported the patient was in critical condition.

According to radio updates, police were collecting evidence and interviewing people in a nearby building and found at least one shell casing and bullet holes in a fence in the alley.

There were no reported arrests and no suspect information was available.

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Métier Brewing Company will bring Black-owned beer — and Japanese street food — to new Central District taproom in 2022

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A 20-year resident of the Central District will open a new flagship taproom for one of the few Black-owned beer breweries in the nation early next year on E Cherry.

Rodney Hines calls Métier Brewing Company “purpose-driven” and said he chose expanding the brewery with a taproom and Japanese street food in the Central Area with the intent of recognizing the history of the communities there while also being present as a Black business owner in the neighborhood.

“A moment of tension for me is when I walk around my neighborhood and when I think of whether new people who see the street signs honoring Rev. McKinney at Mt. Zion Baptist have taken a moment to know who he was. I fear that there’s a lot of new energy, a lot of new people… that can be good. It can be better if people can pause and look at history of who was here and give some respect for that.”

Métier debuted in 2018 in a business partnership with Hines and Todd Herriott, owner of E Union’s bike shop/cafe/training facility Metier Seattle. It shares a name with the bike venture and has based its production at a bike-friendly spot along the riding trail in Woodinville but Métier Brewing is all about Hines and the beer.

2022 will be a massive year for the company. By the end of next summer, Métier and the Seattle Mariners will open the former stadium district Pyramid Alehouse as Steelhead’s Alley, a new beer-focused pre-game hangout honoring the Seattle Steelheads Negro League team that once played its games at Sick’s Stadium on Rainier Ave.

But before it looks back with nostalgia, Métier will push forward with the new E Cherry taproom and microbrewery slated to open in early 2022. CHS first reported here in October on early plans for the E Cherry property formerly used as an auto garage and blacksmith studio.

Now the project is taking shape as a 2,000-square-foot “community gathering space featuring rotating taps of the brewery’s award-winning brews” in the new commercial development from Capitol Hill-based developer Liz Dunn. Continue reading →

Two ‘mystery’ projects take shape with planned beer-y future in the Central District, new basement restaurant on Capitol Hill

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Construction underway this summer at the Heath Printers building on Capitol Hill (Image: CHS)

Sometimes it’s a secret. Sometimes nobody knows. And sometimes you just haven’t asked the right person.

While the pace of new food and drink openings has understandably slowed, two Capitol Hill and Central District “mystery restaurant” projects continue to take shape. As the industry continues its work at recovery, the projects represent bright — and intriguing — lights on the horizon.

On Capitol Hill, work has been underway for months in a full transformation of the interior of Boylston Ave’s Heath Printers building with a planned change of use to “eating & drinking establishment” and construction of “substantial alterations for tenant improvements of restaurant and office spaces throughout existing commercial structure,” according to plans filed with the city. The property just around the corner off E Pine is part of the near block snapped up by developer Asana Partners and was the home to Capitol Hill-born coworking company Office Nomads before that venture went fully virtual during the pandemic.

Asana has brought on Capitol Hill-based Graham Baba Architects, the prolific firm behind many of the neighborhood and city’s most ambitious recent food and drink construction projects, to design the space. Continue reading →