The Seattle Channel’s CityStream profiled 23rd and Union recently, chatting with business owners and residents about the changes in the area.
The show also profiles the James and Janie Washington Cultural Center at 26th and Denny. Once the home and studio of acclaimed artist James Washington, the house is now home to an arts foundation in his name.
Give it a watch!
Seattle voters approved more than $1.25 billion in new school levies in early results from Tuesday’s special election.
The approval continues “a decadelong record of ballot box success” for school levies in the city, the Seattle Times reported.
Included in projects that will be funded by the new levies is a $14.5m line item to modernize and re-purpose the Meany school campus in the Miller Park neighborhood of Capitol Hill. Here’s information on how to get involved in the planning for that project.
The levy will also help rehab the Horace Mann building at 24th and Cherry to make way for the return of Nova in 2014. The World School, currently housed in the Meany building with Nova, will also get a new home in 2016, likely the TT Minor campus at 18th and Union.
Hamlin Robinson, currently operating in the TT Minor building, is on a search for a new permanent campus by the start of the 2015-16 school year.
The levy will also fund an addition to the McGilvra Elementary’s lunch room (insert childhood obesity joke here), roof repairs for Franklin High School, and seismic upgrades at Franklin, Leschi Elementary and Washington Middle School.
Full voting results will be available via the King County Elections site. Continue reading
Kevin Prince at Good2Go Groceries and Deli reached out to us via Facebook to let us know more details about the business, which opened at 18th and Yesler in recent months.
The store is two doors down from Home of Good BBQ, and has hot food and groceries. Hours are Monday – Thursday: 9 a.m. – midnight, Friday and Saturday: 9 a.m. – 2 a.m., and Sunday: 9 a.m – 10 p.m.
My name is Kevin Prince. I have opened a grocery store and deli here on the corner of 18th and Yesler.
We are now offering an alternative to the usual food here in central Seattle.
Offering, mini burgers, new orleans golden fried chicken, vegi burgers and more.
Our burgers are hand made angus beef and definitely delicious!Also, we have a nice and affordable grocery area. Many local beers, over 22 different.
I look forward to meeting you and serving you with a smile!Please like our page on Facebook: Good2Go Grocery and Deli!
Concept image from the Early Design Guidance document (see full document below)
Yesler and Broadway construction. Photo by Gordon Werner, used with permission
Change is coming quickly to Yelser Terrace.
The intersection of Yesler and Broadway will be closed for weeks for a redesign that will make way for the First Hill Streetcar and newly designed sidewalks and bike lanes. And while major demolition of the existing housing units has not yet begun, Vulcan has been chosen to lead the private redevelopment efforts, and one private development project is already underway on a vacant lot at 12th and Yesler formerly owned by Seattle Housing Authority.
As we reported previously, Canadian firm Gracorp Capital Advisors bought the lot from SHA for $2.88 million in the the fall. Now, local architecture firm Spectrum Design Solutions (members of which worked on 12th and Cherry’s The Douglas) will present its initial design concepts for a six-story, 119-unit building on the corner.
With commercial space on the ground floor and a mix of studio, one-bed and two-bed units, project designers say they are hoping to create a building for people of different income levels. From the Early Design Guidance document: Continue reading
The city’s ongoing work on the First Hill Streetcar will require a nearly three-week closure of the intersection at Yesler and Broadway in Yesler Terrace.
Expect to take a different route starting Saturday whether you are driving or taking the 27 and 60 Metro buses. Even after the roads reopen to vehicles, the buses will remain on a detour into April.
Sidewalks will remain open, and presumably people on bikes will be able to use those to get through the area as well (we have asked and will update if we learn differently).
More details from SDOT:
Beginning this weekend the intersection of Broadway and E Yesler Way in the Yesler Terrace neighborhood will be closed to through traffic for approximately three weeks to facilitate construction of the First Hill Streetcar. The closure will begin on Saturday morning, February 9, at 7:00 a.m. and continue until Thursday, February 28. Continue reading
Chanting “Scrap the MAP,” Garfield High students and faculty gathered on the steps of the school to rally in defiance of district-mandated MAP testing.
In the month since the faculty unanimously voted to boycott administration of the test, the protest has spread to schools around the district and attracted national attention and support.
Seattle School District Superintendent Jose Banda backed off his original threat of suspending faculty who refused to give the test, but school administrators started giving the test Tuesday without the support of the faculty. Continue reading
After many months of delays, Wonder Coffee & Sports Bar is now open at 19th and Jackson.
They opened their doors for the first time Sunday, just in time for the Super Bowl. They are seeing how things go and are making adjustments to their menu and store hours.
As of right now, they are aiming to open around 2 p.m. and go until late.
The menu features typical American sports bar food (hamburgers, fries, onion rings, etc), but it also has some Ethiopian items (like zilzil tibs).
And of course, it has coffee, cold beer and a full bar.
The bar also has a stage, a screen with a projector pointed at it and a private room with the front end of a car coming out of it.
Swing by for food or drinks and say hi! Continue reading
Christopher Monfort, the man suspected of shooting and killing SPD Officer Timothy Brenton at 29th and Yesler Halloween 2009, will plead not guilty by reason of insanity.
Monfort is facing murder and attempted murder charges after he allegedly pulled up next to Brenton’s stopped car and fired. Officer Britt Sweeney was also wounded in the incident.
Christopher Monfort’s lawyers have notified King County Superior Court that he will plead not guilty by reason of insanity. Monfort, 42, is facing the death penalty if he’s convicted of the ambush slaying of Brenton. Continue reading
Image courtesy of the Burke Museum
Sometimes, you don’t know what you’ve got stored in your attic. In 2006, a trunk donated to the Dearborn Goodwill included a beaded vest that was likely created by the Blackfoot tribe in the early 1900s.
Goodwill took a half decade trying to figure out what to do with the vest, valued at around $5,000, before donating it to the Burke Museum recently.
Goodwill released this press release about the vest:
Seattle Goodwill recently donated a beaded Native American vest to the Burke Museum to be part of their permanent collection.
“Seattle Goodwill realized the historical value of this vest and thought it would be most beneficial to the community to donate it to the Burke,” said Catherine McConnell, Vice President of Development & Communications for Seattle Goodwill. “We are able to support our free job training and education programs with the generous donations from the community which we value very much, but when we see an item of such cultural significance it should be shared with an organization that can preserve it for the community.” Continue reading
Among the changes coming to 17th and Yesler’s Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center is a new name: The Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute.
As we reported previously, members of the city government have voiced concerns that the LHPAC needs to generate more of its own operating expenses. The mayor, meanwhile, moved the organization from the Parks Department to the Office of Cultural Affairs.
Since reopening after years of rehab work, the organization has been restructuring, and the new name is part of that.
The LHPAI sent out this press release today: Continue reading