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Madison isn’t the only thing getting a paint job on Capitol Hill right now. Work is underway transforming the first Seattle expansion of Voodoo Doughnuts at the base of Capitol Hill.

This week’s labor includes the requisite doughnut box-pink Voodoo paint job going on in layers at the Pine at Minor building as the Portland-based doughnut maker lines up for an opening in coming weeks.

When it opens, Voodoo will be part of a changed block. CHS reported here on the exit of neighborhood favorite Machiavelli and turnover for the property under San Francisco-based real estate company Prado Group after it acquired the building for $5 million in 2022.

For Machiavelli, the closure earlier this year was tempered by the restaurant’s expansion to Edmonds where its spirit and recipes live on. Machiavelli will be replaced by Cheese Room, an Italian project from the MEET Korean BBQ restaurant family.

One constant on the block will be Pine-born burger chain Li’l Woody’s which is celebrating its own expansion to Japan. The Marcus Lalario-backed burger joint is still flipping patties in the space where it was born in 2011.

For Pho 4 U and Lan Hand-Pulled Noodles, they have now been bumped for pink paint and doughnuts. Prado’s deal with Voodoo meant the end of the line for the restaurants that had been surviving on month to month lease agreements.

There is no date announced yet for the Voodoo Seattle grand opening.

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