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May Day 2013 (Image: CHS)
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With piñatas and Mexican grocery dreams, Fogón adding ‘bodega bar’ El Lugar to E Pine
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Investor behind Badlands, Splash clubs set to buy iconic Capitol Hill gay dance bar Neighbours
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The Seattle Landmarks Preservation Board agreed. The old, boarded-up auto row-era Capitol Hill building at the corner of E Olive Way and Denny is not a landmark.
The board voted seven to one Wednesday on a motion to deny the nomination of the property. CHS reported here on the nomination of the 1924-built Olive Way Improvement Company building, a formality in the process to redevelop the nearly 100-year-old complex that first rose as the street was being touted as an exciting new alternative connecting Capitol Hill to early 20th century downtown Seattle.
Wednesday’s vote will help clear the way for Guntower Capital, a holding company formed by executives at two Seattle-area real estate and development firms, to begin its plans. Past attempts to ask the company’s owners about its vision for the property have not been responded to. Continue reading
The corner in the 1970s
The Seattle Landmarks Board will take up the nomination of an unlikely Capitol Hill candidate for preservation Wednesday.
CHS reported here on the nomination for the auto row-era commercial property at 1550 E Olive Way and the corner of E Denny that is being presented as a formality in the process to redevelop the nearly 100-year-old complex. Continue reading
Recall Sawant representative Harry Bridger (Image: CHS)
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From the report prepared by David Peterson Historic Resource Consulting
It may be the unlikeliest of the remaining major auto row-era structures on Capitol Hill to be considered, but the boarded-up, 1924-built Olive Way Improvement Company building lined up for a likely future of mixed-use redevelopment will get its day in front of the Seattle Landmarks Board.
A required nomination hearing for the nearly 100-year-old complex at the curving corner of E Olive Way and Denny will take place next Wednesday. The meeting will likely be prelude to a demolition, or, at least, a gutting.
CHS broke the news in January that Guntower Capital, a holding company formed by executives at two Seattle-area real estate and development firms, was in agreement to purchase the half acre or so property once home to a mix of businesses including the former In the Bowl, the departed Bus Stop bar and Coffee Messiah cafe and a sprawling dog lounge charred in a 2017 fire.
Its history, of course, goes back much further but the commercial building constructed by an Olive Way focused developer as a retail and automotive garage structure has seen better days.
Still, it has its auto row charms including massive heavy timber trusses, old brick walls, and some remaining decorative flourishes along the E Olive Way facing retail segment “clad in buff-colored field face brick with terra cotta ornamentation.” Continue reading
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After 46 years, The Canterbury’s Capitol Hill reign is ending
Victim in Saturday stabbing homicide identified — 2nd Capitol Hill homeless man murdered this month
