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SUMA: Plans for 12th Ave Seattle University Museum of Art — and ‘Tulip on the Green’ — moving forward

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A rendering of SUMA (Image: Olson Kundig)

The planing for SUMA has been busy this summer. Early paperwork for land use and construction permits around the planned Seattle University Museum of Art has been a summer project for architects and planners around the project. The Seattle University Hill Implementation Advisory Committee, a body required by the city for oversight of major institutional planning, will meet Wednesday night on the project.

Seattle University Hill Implementation Advisory Committee (IAC) Meeting #18: Agenda Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2025 Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PM In-person location: Seattle University Advancement and Alumni Building Stuart T. Rolfe Community Room 824 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122 Virtual Option: Webex Link Dial-in and Passcode: 206-207-1700 / 248 233 75775

You can learn more about the session and sign up for public comment here (PDF).

Wednesday agenda calls for a 35-minute session on the project’s permit timeline, a discussion around regulations related to amending the school’s Major Institution Master Plan and the “IAC’s Role in the Process.”

A 70-minute Q&A, public comment, and “committee deliberation” will follow. Continue reading →

Seattle University’s Chapel of St. Ignatius damaged and ‘defaced’ in Sunday vandalism attack

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Seattle Police are investigating as another area house of worship has been damaged in a vandalism attack. Seattle University says furniture inside the prominent Chapel of St. Ignatius was damaged and “elements of the Chapel’s religious inscriptions” were “defaced in the process” in the Sunday afternoon vandalism.

“The Chapel of St. Ignatius is a uniquely treasured and sacred space on our campus,” the university’s president Eduardo M. Peñalver and officials wrote in a message to the 12th Ave school’s campus about the damage. “Although we do not know the motives of the person who engaged in this destructive act, our experience of it brings us into solidarity with other communities who have experienced this kind of desecration and disregard.”

Peñalver and officials also expressed “sorrow and support” for the people who found the damage “who were shaken by what they observed.” Continue reading →

With sentence completed in New Mexico, man faces trial for rape of unconscious women in Capitol Hill apartment

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Redwolf Pope is scheduled to face trial later this month in King County Superior Court four years after he was charged with the rape of two unconscious women in a Boylston Ave apartment where police said they found proof the sexual assaults occurred after the discovery of secret cameras, and a stash of incriminating recordings.

The local court proceedings come after Pope completed his prison sentence in New Mexico for raping a woman there in 2017. Continue reading →