“Don’t plan to drop by T.T. Minor Playground for a trip down the slide if you’re visiting during school hours,” Year of Seattle Parks says. “The park is officially closed to the public, as it is used by the elementary school next door.” (Image: Year of Seattle Parks)
The Seattle Parks Department is planning to renovate E Union’s T.T. Minor playground and will hold two community meetings in coming weeks to help shape the $500,000 overhaul.
Wednesday, October 18th from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Light dinner at 5:30 with presentation at 6 p.m. to review play equipment options.
Join us at Seattle World School (1700 E Union Street, next to the play area).
Saturday, November 11th from 9 a.m. to noon.
Presentation in the park to review preferred playground design at T.T. Minor play area (1698 E Union Street, Seattle 98122).
The King County Medical Examiner has identified the man shot and killed last week at 25th and Union. Seattle Police have provided little information about what led up to the homicide. There have been no announced arrests.
Officials say Nakawa Beasley, 45, was shot and killed in the Thursday night slaying.
Police were called to the area around 7:45 PM after reported gunfire and found Beasley down on the street with a gunshot wound to the abdomen, according to East Precinct radio updates. Police began CPR at the scene but Beasley was reported dead by the time Seattle Fire arrived.
SPD says it is not known what events led up to the shooting and has asked the public for help in the investigation. Police were searching for the suspect who reportedly fled in a vehicle. A search was underway for a white sedan possibly involved in the incident. Witnesses reported hearing between two to six shots. Continue reading →
A man was killed and police were searching for the suspect and the getaway vehicle in a shooting Thursday night near 25th and Union in the Central District.
All details are preliminary at this point and Seattle Police has only confirmed it was conducting an investigation at the scene at this time. UPDATE: SPD confirmed the homicide late Thursday night.
Summer isn’t over yet and OOLA Capitol Hill’s patio at its new 14th and Union bottle shop, cocktail bar, and restaurant is ready when you are.
It has been a few weeks since the craft distillery returned to its home turf with the new hangout in the former home of Marjorie. CHS reported here on the opening as Kirby Kallas-Lewis and KT Niehoff put the final touches on the overhaul with help from their new teammates executive chef Liz Blacker and beverage director Devan Lenning.
The new OOLA is across the street from where it began distilling craft spirits in 2011. Now, three years after its move to a larger, easier to manage production facility in Georgetown, OOLA is back with a space dedicated to showcasing its gin, vodka, and whiskey along with farm-to-table pairings and creative cocktails.
Stoup Brewing Capitol Hill is now open and pouring its beers in the former Optimism beer hall and brewery at the corner of Broadway and Union.
The Ballard-born brewery completed its move-in last week and has been getting comfortable in its new location. It isn’t yet putting the 20-barrel brewing facility to work pending license updates but Stoup beers created on NW 52nd St are on tap, the food truck schedule is back in motion, and the 16,000-square-foot has new signage and a few Stoup touches in place.
“We are proud to also note that Optimism’s taproom crew is moving forward with us so familiar faces will be pouring our pints,” Stoup’s Lara Zahaba tells CHS.
The brewery also remains a cashless venue.
CHS reported in June on the plan for Stoup to take over Optimism Brewing and create its third taproom along with adding the new production capacity to its science-based approach to beer brewing. Owners Troy Hakala and Gay Gilmore debuted Optimism in November 2015 as a one of a kind, full-powered beer brewery built on the bones of the neighborhood’s auto row history in the heart of Capitol Hill. Hakala and Gilmore have retained ownership of the building and now count Stoup as tenants — and shepherd’s of the urban brewery and its space in the community. Continue reading →
With a new executive chef and mixologist leading the way, OOLA returns to 14th and Union this week as the Capitol Hill-born distillery debuts its new bottle shop, cocktail bar, and restaurant just across the street from where it created its first batches of craft spirits.
Kirby Kallas-Lewis and KT Niehoff announced a Tuesday, August 22nd opening for the rebirth of OOLA in its home neighborhood after spending the past summer weeks overhauling the former location of the Marjorie restaurant. Continue reading →
A Capitol Hill architecture firm has released designs showing what a new seven-story mixed-use apartment building being planned to puzzle-piece in between Capitol Hill classic night spots Chop Suey, Diesel, and Madison Pub will look like.
The seven-story, 138-unit Tanager Apartments are on track for a hoped-for 2025 opening, 15th Ave E headquartered Board and Vellum has announced.
“A new, mixed-use multifamily, development located above the Seattle staple nightclub, Chop Suey, will balance urban living with the beauty of the Pacific Northwest,” the design firm says. “Two towers will be situated around a courtyard teeming with vegetation and natural life — a forested oasis in the middle of a bustling neighborhood.” Continue reading →
Heritage didn’t stick around long but it left behind a lovely space (Image; CHS)
By Kali Herbst Minino
The backside of Pike/Pine has a busy summer ahead including a new project from “one of the ‘Best Restaurants in Washington State.”
CHS has new details on the coming soon Koko’s Restaurant and Tequila Bar, a second location for the partnership behind the original Koko’s which has grown into a widely respected dining destination despite its far-flung location in the planned Olympic Peninsula community of Seabrook.
The new Koko’s will open later this summer and joins a flurry of activity on the backside of Pike/Pine including the Stoup Brewingtakeover ofOptimism Brewing’s 20-barrel brewery and beer hall at Broadway and union. Neighboring queer barUnion, meanwhile, will kick off the busy season with a weekend of no-cover Pride celebration.
At Koko’s, a Latin restaurant intentionally separating itself from casual Tex-Mex is in the works for the 10th Ave location just off Union. Koko’s Restaurant and Tequila Bar co-owners and partners Gibran Moreno and Alexi Torres have plans to open the second location of their Seabrook business within the next two months.
Moreno tells CHS the vision for Koko’s will be an elevated dining experience just outside the Pike/Pine core. Continue reading →
Two Seattle breweries born just under 10 years ago are combining, bringing an end to Capitol Hill’s Optimism Brewing. But the woman-owned, scientifically-minded beer making will continue and the taps will still flow at Optimism’s auto row-era showroom transformed into a modern Capitol Hill beer hall.
Ballard-born Stoup Brewing and Optimism announced the planned acquisition and were busy telling employees and customers about the plans over the holiday weekend.
“We love that it is continuing. We built it as a place that we wanted to go to and it’s going to stay exactly as it is,” Optimism co-founder Troy Hakala said Monday. “And Capitol Hill is getting great Stoup beer.”
At Union and Broadway, new signs and a few changes will go up over the summer as the tap lines fill with Stoup’s creations and the production vats shift, but Stoup’s Lara Zahaba says the hope is for Optimism’s spirit to continue in the 16,000-square-foot brewery that has been lauded for its aesthetics and community-friendly design including spacious open seating and an impressively vast all-gender restroom.
“I hope the feelings will be very similar,” Zahaba said. “Really Stoup and Optimism have a lot in common. Locally owned, neighborhood breweries. Inclusive.”
“My hope is people will have that feeling of Optimism when drinking Stoup beers,” she said.
New beer, new signage, and a new color scheme are coming but the rest of the changes will be minimal — “We will Stoup-ify the space to a certain degree,” Zahaba quipped — for what has been a working recipe.
Craft beer looked very different, and had some misogynist and angry streaks when they started the brewery a decade ago, Optimism’s Gay Gilmore said.
“We tried to make it super approachable. I think a lot of craft is doing the same now. They figured it out.”
Gilmore says Stoup is part of that craft beer change. “Their values are just as inclusive as Optimism,” Gilmore said.
Under the planned deal, Stoup will take over the brewery and beer hall while Optimism founders Gilmore and Hakala will retain ownership of the 1920-era Maker Building they purchased after the Polyclinic shifted plans and put the property up for sale for expected redevelopment. Continue reading →
OOLA Distillery picked up its barrels and still equipment and left 14th and Union three years ago but the Capitol Hill-rooted owners behind the craft spirits maker never did. Now, OOLA is returning to its birth neighborhood with a new bottle shop, cocktail bar, and restaurant.
“Our production facility will remain in Georgetown, but the face of all things OOLA will be on the Hill,” founder and head distiller Kirby Kallas-Lewis tells CHS.
With hopes for a July opening if all the paperwork goes well, OOLA Capitol Hill is being readied to open in the former home of Marjorie next to Skillet on the northeast corner of 14th and Union. CHS reported here on Donna Moodie’sdecision to move Marjorie nine blocks to a new home at 23rd and Union.
For Kallas-Lewis and KT Niehoff, the couple behind OOLA, the new project is a full melding of life, business, and making great gin and whiskey. They were married at Marjorie and still live “a stone’s throw” from the corner. Their plans include “fresh herbs, edible flowers and eggs from their chickens” from their “extensive” backyard garden and a promise for “a true farm to table urban oasis.”
“Expect to be hosted by KT and Kirby when you come by — this is the definition of ‘owner operated,'” they say in the announcement of the new project. Continue reading →
