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Casa Latina planning new 3 story building on Jackson
CASA Latina moved into the neighborhood just over one year ago, after remodeling and older office building at 17th & Jackson. Now the day-laborer social service organization is planning a big...
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First look at county's 3 options for Youth Service Center
The court and office facilities at the King County Youth Service Center (aka juvie hall) are too small, too old, and too expensive to maintain. And as we told you last fall, the county is moving...
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New Broadway & Jefferson building funded, asking for 5 ft
Ever since the financial sector suffered a meltdown, we've had a lot of big building projects in the neighborhood get all the way through the permitting process and then languish without financing. But...
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SHA says no quick fix for empty buildings on 12th
As we reported last month, the Seattle Housing Authority has been expanding its Yesler Terrace holdings east of Boren to the area around 12th & Yesler. They purchased the corner property, formerly...
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Construction Update: CCS, Woodworking, and Epiphany
Springtime is bringing an uptick in construction activity around the neighborhood, even in blustery rainy days like today. Here's an update on three big projects: Getting Started: The old buildings...
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12th Avenue dead zones a big challenge for county project
Last night's community meeting on the redevelopment of the county's Youth Services Center site included only slight refinements to the three design options we reported on last month. Apart from the...
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Design review tonight for Casa Latina expansion
Last year Casa Latina moved into a remodeled office building at 17th & Jackson, and at the time they had told neighbors to expect a further expansion within a year or two. Planning for that...
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Multi-family code update could affect big chunk of CD
Last night there was a public hearing at city hall to gather public feedback on a proposed update to the city codes for multi-family development. You might ask "What is multi-family development?"...
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Madrona house profiled in New York Times
What do you get for $1,275,000? The Madrona house overlooking Lake Washington that got some ink in the New York Times this weekend in the Property Values column of the Great Homes and Destinations...
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City okays sprawling new Swedish development on 18th
The big decision we've been waiting on for almost two years has come to a conclusion, with the city deeming Swedish's expansion project a "minor amendment" to the hospital's sixteen year old...
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Renovations under way at old Philly's, but no tenant yet
If you've walked past 23rd & Union recently, you may have noticed a lot of activity inside the old Philly's building on the corner. Nora did and asked an excellent question in the comments last...
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Teardown on twenty-ninth making way for townhomes
It seems like it's been forever since we were able to write about a townhouse-related teardown. It seems like a few years ago they were happening once a week. But evidently there's still some life...
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Neighbors & Squire Park appealing city's Swedish decision
The Squire Park Community Council and two hospital neighbors are gearing up for a September hearing that will consider their appeals of the a key city decision on Swedish hospital's proposed expansion...
View ArticleRezone request moving forward for Central District apartments
The city Department of Planning and Development has recommended that the city move forward on a rezone requested by First Place School for their Central District property. UPDATE: This post has been...
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Big new fitness center coming to Seattle U Campus on 14th Avenue
Seattle University students will have a spacious new place to get in shape when school starts next fall, as the University is preparing to break ground on a new fitness center in the 500 block of 14th...
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CD Real Estate Update: Sales prices buck trend, rise while rest of county down
The Redfin blog provided an update last week on home prices in the Seattle area, noting that county-wide sales prices are down 3.5% for August vs. the same period in 2009. But we dug through Redfin's...
View ArticleWorkforce housing project at 12th & Jefferson gets green light from hearing...
After learning earlier this week that the controversial Swedish expansion along 18th was rejected by the city's hearing examiner, today we have found out that a very uncontroversial rezone request at...
View ArticleFirst Place School low-income housing plan passes Hearing Examiner review
The plan by Central District's First Place School to put 16 units of low-income housing on its parking lot was controversial with some of our commenters when we first reported on the project back in...
View Article23rd & Union updates please
Does anyone know what is going on with: 1. The bakery/coffee shop in the old Philly Cheesesteak building? The coming soon signs have been there since before Christmas and I’ve not seen any activity...
View ArticleBeehive Bakery now open at 23rd & Union
Today is the first day with the doors open and baked goods in the display case. The bakery is still unfinished and the whole selection won't be available til Monday. It is a soft opening to get warmed...
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