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In Capitol Hill food and drink’s season of change, Aamrai Indian Kitchen & Bar now open on Bellevue Ave

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The folks at Aamrai (Image: Aamrai)

A Capitol Hill food and drink venue where a December 2024 closure marked what many feared would be the start of a wave of Capitol Hill shutdowns is back in motion this summer.

Aamrai Indian Kitchen & Bar is now open on Bellevue Ave.

“Aamrai offers a warm and inviting ambiance, with soft lighting, cozy seating, and gentle background music, making it the perfect place to celebrate those special moments with your loved ones,” the opening announcement reads. “Take your guests on a decadent culinary journey as you feast on our authentic menu, thoughtfully created by our team.”

CHS reported here on the late 2024 closure of The Jilted Siren as the barely one-year-old lounge’s ownership blamed “short sighted, negligent decisions” at Seattle City Hall for contributing to its closure. Small business advocates feared The Jilted Siren’s end might be the start of shutdowns of Seattle’s restaurants, bars, and small businesses most impacted by the 2025 expiration of the city’s tip credit. Six months later, the closure wave never really materialized — but there are signs of change in the neighborhood’s food and drink economy. Continue reading →

While Seattle debates ‘Middle Housing,’ this 8-story project will fill in another Capitol Hill block

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The old duplex is a goner

As the city debates a new growth plan and “Middle Housing” zoning changes that might someday allow a fourplex to rise in Madrona, the site of a 123-year-old, barely 2,000-square-foot house is being prepared to hold 25 new homes on one of the most densely populated blocks of the most densely populated neighborhoods on the West Coast.

Capitol Hill is not complaining — but it is carrying a great deal of the load that has pushed Seattle back into the top 5 for growth in the country’s major cities.

The Bejelit Capitol Hill Cohousing project slated for E Olive St. between Harvard and Boylston is being planned to rise eight stories on 3,312 square feet of land nestled between the massive 1940-built Lenawee apartments building and the smaller but still impressive 1917-built Porter Apartments.

The infill project not substantial enough to trigger the public design review process is a good representation of the state of multifamily housing development on Capitol Hill in 2025. Continue reading →

‘Undetermined’ — Investigators can’t pinpoint cause in boarded-up Capitol Hill apartment building fire

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Investigators were unable to determine what caused the fire early last Friday that ripped through a Belmont Ave apartment building that was supposed to be vacant.

The Seattle Fire Department said the Fire Marshal’s investigation officially ruled the cause of the two-alarm blaze that charred the boarded-up apartment building as “undetermined.”

A check of the building revealed nobody trapped inside during the fire and there were no reported injuries. Continue reading →

Fire chars vacant Belmont apartment building lined up to be demolished to make way for new ‘supportive housing’ project

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Thanks to reader Micah for this picture of the fire

An overnight fire charred a vacant Capitol Hill apartment building lined up to be demolished to make way for a new housing project for “chronically homeless adults.”

Seattle Fire reported the 4:20 AM blaze as a two-alarm fire as flames leapt from the emptied Granberg Apartments onto a neighboring structure in the 1700 block of Belmont.

The fire raged through the three-story, 1908-era apartment building quickly and, with the roof at risk of collapse, SFD said it was taking a defensive position “by pouring water on the fire at a safe distance away from the building.”

More than an hour later, crews were still working to completely put out the fire as SFD warned residents and businesses in the area to close windows and doors to try to prevent smoke from entering.

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Seattle Fire rescues one, quickly knocks down blaze in 116-year-old Capitol Hill weekly-stay hotel

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The 1908-built Curben Hotel on Summit Ave still stands after a fire Saturday morning required at least one person to be rescued during the response.

Seattle Fire was called to the 1700 block of Summit just south of Denny just before 6 AM to respond to an upper floor unit on fire in the three-story building.

Arriving firefighters performed a ladder rescue of at least one person. Seattle Fire reports they were treated at at the scene and in stable condition.

Crews were able to quickly bring the fire under control and a search revealed no additional victims.

It is not clear how many people will be displaced from the area of the building where the fire occurred in the longtime weekly-stay hotel.

The cause of the fire is under investigation, Seattle Fire reports.

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For sale: New Capitol Hill developer sought for mixed-use City Market redevelopment

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Speaking of neighborhood groceries, itΒ has been 111 days since the “MUP-ready development site” also known as Capitol Hill’s much-loved City Market hit the Seattle real estate market.

November’s unpriced listing — if you have to ask, you probably can’t afford it — was the surest sign that much-hyped San Francisco-based property developer Juno is now out of the picture after shepherding the property through several rounds of Seattle process on the way to plans for a mass timber mixed-use building topped with 98-residential units, including 58 studios, 21 β€œdeep” one-bedrooms, 13 one-bedrooms and 5 two-bedrooms, above a future home for the popular Bellevue Ave grocery and new underground parking.

To make way, the existing City Market building and the laundromat next door as well as a small surface parking lot were planned to be demolished. Continue reading →

Sprinkler system knocks out Capitol Hill apartment building fire, Seattle Fire investigating — UPDATE

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Seattle Fire investigators were trying to determine how a fire started Tuesday night on an upper floor of a new Capitol Hill apartment building.

SFD responded to the blaze just after 5 PM Tuesday in the 600 E Howell Clay Apartments that rose on the site of the former Redwood bar but reported that the seven-story building’s automatic safety systems had put the fire out. There were no reported injuries.

The Fire Marshal was called to the scene to investigate. Limited damage was reported.

UPDATE: SFD reports the fire was determined to have been intentionally set. Seattle Police is now investigating. Damage was limited to about $5,000, SFD reports.

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Calling the heartbroken but happy, the hungry, and the thirsty, The Jilted Siren now open on Capitol Hill

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Amy Graham — accompanied by her daughter Kayla — at The Jilted Siren

A new mural by Justice Fox-Hille

A popular neighborhood space has taken new shape as a shadowy and adumbral hangout for creatures of the night and the people who love them on Capitol Hill.

The Jilted Siren calls Bellevue Ave “the heart of the locals’ favorite part” of the neighborhood. It is a dark heart — with a big smile.

The new bar inspired by love and loss from industry veteran and first-time owner Amy Graham has opened in the former home of Kedai Makan. CHS reported in February on Graham’s plans for a “dark and broody” makeover of the restaurant into a neighborhood lounge with “Spice Trade Route” flavors. As for The Jilted Siren name, the veteran bartender knows her way through the human heart — and the classics.

β€œThe Iliad… the Odyssey… this time Odysseus does not get away,” Graham told CHS earlier this year. β€œWe’ve all been heartbroken at some point. Understanding this is the human condition.” Continue reading →

‘What does it look like to change?’ — Kedai Makan is for sale, set to complete the Capitol Hill food and drink lifecycle on its own terms

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From a stall at the farmers market to neighborhood walk-up counter to its own “monster” of a restaurant space, Kedai Makan has lived and breathed every phase of the Capitol Hill food and drink life cycle on its own terms.

Husband and wife Kevin Burzell and Alysson Wilson are now bringing Kedai’s lifecycle to a close — also on their own terms — after ten whirlwind years of 15-hour days and some of the best customers you can find in Seattle.

“We took baby steps from each place, never wanted to be big,” Wilson tells CHS. β€œWe’ve taken Kedai as far as we can take it. We’re ready for some kind of a change.”

Long running Kedai fans now have a few weeks to stop through to say goodbye and congratulations. Kedai Makan’s final night of service is planned for October 29th.

Kedai Makan is for sale. Continue reading →

Police search for BB gun sniper in string of Capitol Hill airgun attacks

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Police are looking for a shooter targeting people with an airgun near Crawford and E Olive after a person was shot and injured by a BB or pellet late Saturday night, the latest in a string of similar shootings reported in the area.

According to Seattle Police, officers were called to the Capitol Hill Kaiser Permanente just after 11 PM Saturday night after a man with what was believed to be a gunshot wound arrived at the facility. Police say it turned out the victim had been shot in the buttocks with a BB or pellet. Continue reading →