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Seattle Fire Department: Capitol Hill apartment building fire ‘originated’ in solar panels — UPDATE

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The Seattle Fire Department says its investigation has determined Friday’s fire atop the Holiday Apartments “originated” in the solar power system atop the four-story building at 10th and John.

CHS reported here as firefighters struggled to extinguish the blaze and black smoke billowed above Capitol Hill Friday afternoon.

SFD did not say how the panels caught fire but photovoltaic systems can fail under extreme conditions or when there are other factors like faulty wiring or component defects.

Temperatures were in the high to mid-70s when the fire began. Continue reading →

Seattle Fire handles solar panel blaze atop E John apartment building

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Thanks to reader Max H. for the pictures

The Seattle Fire Department took care of a rooftop blaze atop a Capitol Hill apartment building after solar panels caught fire Friday afternoon.

SFD was called to the Holiday Apartments at 10th and John next to Capitol Hill Station just after 2 PM to the reported blaze involving solar panels atop the four-story building. Continue reading →

Capitol Hill QFC redevelopment plan gets ‘Director’s Decision’ approval

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(Image: Daily Journal of Commerce)

The Seattle Department of Construction & Inspections has issued its Director’s Decision approving the plans for a six-story development to rise on the block currently home to the old 15th Ave E QFC.

Just over a week remains for any possible appeals to be filed against the decision.

The process milestone marks nearly two years of meetings and debate about the development including the East Design Review Board’s approval last fall of a requested zoning departure to allow the building an extra story in exchange for a layout that will preserve a prized European hornbeam tree along E Republican while also transitioning the project to better mesh with the adjacent lower structures to the north.

Any appeals must be filed with the Hearing Examiner by May 29th. Continue reading →

Another fire damages old Queen Sheba building at Broadway and John — UPDATE

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Thanks to neighbor Teddy for the picture

A fire scorched the empty building formerly home to the Queen Sheba restaurant at Broadway and John Tuesday afternoon.

Seattle Fire was called around 2:45 PM to reports of flames on the outside of the building that spread to the interior. Continue reading →

City says numbers will determine if Capitol Hill’s rogue stop signs become official

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This video shows the rogue 4-way stop in motion

The Seattle Department of Transportation says even though it rushed to remove the rogue E John stop signs, it gets the message from the guerrilla act of street engineering.

“The installation of unauthorized stop signs indicates a desire from some in the community to have additional traffic control at this location,” a SDOT spokesperson tells CHS. “We’ll collect data to understand if stop signs might be a good option at this intersection.”

CHS reported last month on SDOT’s quick de-installation of the latest vigilante act of Capitol Hill streetscape improvement after somebody unofficially added official looking stop signs along E John creating 4-way stops at 13th and 14th Ave where pedestrians are often left waiting to make dangerous crossings. Continue reading →

The Capitol Hill Department of Transportation? Rogue stop signs un-installed along busy E John

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(Image: CHS)

The Seattle Department of Transportation’s $1.55 billion levy plan for 2025 includes Broadway safety improvements, an E Union “Revival,” and transit safety investments. But few of those projects will be more than planning this year.

The guerrilla Capitol Hill Department of Transportation?

It works faster — though its projects don’t tend to last.

Over the weekend, someone completed the latest rogue addition to the neighborhood’s streetscape, secretly installing stop signs on the busy intersections along E John above 12th Ave where pedestrians hoping to cross are often left waiting — or sprinting — to get to the other side. Continue reading →

After five years of paperwork, ‘Master Use Permit’ issued for five-story Capitol Hill Safeway redevelopment

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(Image: Weber Thompson)

The development project to create a new Safeway grocery store and mixed-use apartment complex at the corner of 15th and John has overcome its final regulatory hurdle.

The City of Seattle issued a Master Use Permit for the long-planned project on Halloween day, records show.

The issuance is the final major step in the city’s development process for a project from developerΒ GreystarΒ and the Weber Thompson development team to create two new five-story buildings including a new grocery, around 330 market rate apartment units, some new, smaller retail spaces, and an underground parking lot for more than 300 cars on the Safeway property at 15th and John.

The development has beenΒ in the works for years. CHSΒ first broke the news on the plans in 2019. Plans had called for a start of construction in 2024 and a possible 2026 opening of the project. Continue reading →

SPD investigates double stabbing in Capitol Hill Halloween nightlife fight

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Two people were reported stabbed in an altercation early Friday morning amid remaining Capitol Hill Halloween nightlife crowds.

Seattle Police were called to E John at Bellevue just north of E Olive Way around 2:25 AM to a report of a man stabbed in the neck and upper body in a fight outside a nearby bar.

As officers arrived and called Seattle Fire to the scene to assist the injured man, police were called to a second victim reported stabbed in the neck and in need of assistance outside E Olive Way bar Revolver.

Seattle Fire reports it transported a 36-year-old man in stable condition to Harborview and a 30-year-old man was taken to the hospital by a private ambulance from outside the E Olive Way bar.

Seattle Police reported the second victim was highly intoxicated and uncooperative with police and medics.

Police were looking for a suspect described only as a heavyset black male wearing all black.

There were no reported arrests.

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Suspect held in Queen Sheba fire

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Thanks to a CHS reader for this image from the scene of the arrest

A suspect chased down by police remains jailed and Seattle Fire says investigators have determined the fire was intentionally set in Saturday’s blaze that damaged the former Queen Sheba restaurant across from Capitol Hill Station.

The Seattle Police Department says it took a 42-year-old man into custody Saturday afternoon in the aftermath of the incident that brought a large response to Broadway and John to battle the stubborn basement fire.

Police say the man was arrested a short distance from the fire for reckless burning, obstruction, and a weapons violation. A witness reportedly saw the suspect and another man fleeing the burning building.

According to court records, the suspect was released from Jail in August to await trial in a malicious mischief case stemming from thousands in damage inflicted on a delivery van in a Harvard Ave parking lot in July. The newly re-jailed suspect is slated to stand trial in that case later this year. Continue reading →

Fire damages former Queen Sheba restaurant tabbed for overhaul — UPDATE

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Thanks to a CHS reader for this picture of the response filling the intersection of John and Broadway

Seattle Fire knocked down a stubborn basement fire before it could more damage to a shuttered Capitol Hill restaurant Saturday afternoon.

Crews were called to the former Queen Sheba restaurant just after 1 PM to a report of smoke and flames coming from the two-story building in the 900 block of E John. Fire trucks and emergency vehicles filled the area around Broadway and the Capitol Hill Station light rail facility during the response.

SFD said it was able to bring the basement fire under control and there were no reported injuries. The Seattle Fire Marshal was investigating what caused the blaze.

CHS reported here on the closure of the longtime Ethiopian restaurant tucked into a converted 125-year-old house just off Broadway. The property’s owner said the plan was to rehab the building and find a new restaurant to take over the space.

UPDATE: Witness reports described two men seen possibly leaving the Sheba building after the fire was first spotted. Police took at least one person into custody near the fire scene.

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