(Image: Koko’s Restaurant)
A restaurant and tequila bar that has grown into one of the state’s best dining experiences despite its far-flung location in the planned Olympic Peninsula community of Seabrook, Washington is bringing its “homemade, modern Latin cuisine” to 10th Ave.
Koko’s Restaurant is making plans for the former Heritage Distilling Capitol Hill tasting room that closed shop during the pandemic never to reopen. Continue reading
Habitat for Humanity has brought its philosophies around equality — and sweat equity — in home ownership to 11th Ave E between Harrison and Republican on Capitol Hill.
Over the weekend, it celebrated the completion of the Capitol View Community building along with the new condo owners who will call the development home.
“My best friend used to live down the street from here near the park,” new owner Amber Cortes said at Saturday’s ceremony. “And she said when she first lived here 10 years ago, there were all sorts of people in the building — an opera singer, a landscaper, a pastry chef. And over the years, rent went up, housing cost went up, and people started moving out.”
“I’ve honestly lost track and count of all the artists I know who have moved out of Seattle, and they’re bringing their talents and their potential to enrich the city with them,” Cortes said.
Ownership of the 13 units at the Capitol View Community is restricted to households making 80% or less of Area Median Income. Habitat says 11 of the 13 units have completed the purchasing process with five going to BIPOC homebuyers. Part of the Habitat tradition, the new owners also gave 250 hours of “sweat equity” volunteer work as part of the purchasing process.
There were 911 reports of gunfire and a person shouting they had been shot but police found no victims in a Sunday night incident near 10th and John.
Callers reported the gunfire and shouting in an altercation reported just after 11 PM Sunday. Arriving police found the parties in the dispute and located a .45 caliber handgun in one of their vehicles. At least one shell casing was located nearby on the northeast corner of 10th and John, according to East Precinct radio updates.
Police reported they were in contact with the belligerents and said there were no reported injuries at the scene.
No immediate arrests were reported.
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Time Warp is ready for a December 2022 debut on 10th Ave in the heart of Pike/Pine with plans for a grand opening next week.
The project from buds and business collaborators Joe Ricci, Sean Bray, Tim Uomoto, and Greg Larson fired up its games and its drinks Wednesday night to put the pinball and arcade bar through a test run with the friends and loved ones who have been waiting to play since the venue was first planned in early 2020.
“We have a bunch of friends that are super into pinball,” Ricci said. “Seattle’s a huge pinball city.” Continue reading
(Image: Fern)
A space born in a brief era on Capitol Hill when bigger was better will finally go back into motion next month with a new restaurant at 10th and Union.
Fern Thai is expanding from its Bellevue Main Street original and taking over the large space left empty when Capitol Hill Thai concept Soi went dark during the pandemic.
Fern Thai says it plans to be open on Capitol Hill in September.
Husband and wife restaurateurs Gabe Wiborg and Yuie Helseth Soi were the first to grace the restaurant space, opening with a northeastern Thai-flavored menu and cocktails in the expansive Broadstone Infinity building in August of 2015. After finding success with their first restaurant venture in Kent Thai concern Banyan Tree, the couple were joining the booming Capitol Hill food and drink scene. Continue reading
(Image: O Maki Rolls + Teriyaki)
Delivery and takeout friendly sushi rolls and teriyaki are joining a cluster of North Capitol Hill restaurants.
Plans for a “togo” version of Greenwood-born O Maki Rolls + Teriyaki are taking shape for the 10th Ave E space formerly home to the last Capitol Hill stand of Amante Pizza, the one-time E Olive Way joint notorious for its obnoxiously flashing signage. Continue reading
A sign of normalcy — and a sign of the times — Little Oddfellows, one of Linda Derschang’s remaining Capitol Hill joints, is making tentative plans to reopen Friday inside 10th Ave’s Elliott Bay Book Company.
Even one of the city’s longest running food and drink entrepreneurs is being challenged by the pandemic’s ongoing impact on the labor force. Derschang says Friday’s opening is pending last minute hiring including an assistant manager and a line cook.
While the cafe has remained dark, the Elliott Bay store has continued to serve customers through the pandemic and is now a union shop. Retail on 10th Ave has also gone through some changes. Macklemore’s golf fashion play Bogey Boys stopped through for a temporary stay before teeing off again in University Village. New era furniture retailer Joybird is lined up to take over the former Everyday Music space across 10th Ave. Last summer, Glossier restarted its global beauty retail ambitions with a new store on the street. Continue reading
(Image: Great Jones Gallery)
Capitol Hill has a new art gallery in a familiar space that — so far — has stayed clear of waves of redevelopment. It is brought to you by some familiar Capitol Hill arts faces.
The Great Jones Gallery, a joint project of Leah St. Lawrence and Timothy Rysdyke, is now open at 1216 10th Ave in a 1911-era former auto garage building that has made a home for a variety of arts and creative efforts over more recent years.
The location previously housed The Factory, another gallery of Rysdyke’s, which has since relocated to the first floor of First Hill’s Museum of Museums. In keeping with the namesake of The Factory, inspired by Andy Warhol’s New York City studio of the same name, Great Jones Gallery gets its name from the street where Warhol rented out one of his studio spaces to Jean-Michel Basquiat.
St. Lawrence and Rysdyke sought to create in Great Jones Gallery a unique space that resembles what the next phase of The Factory may have looked like. Continue reading
(Image: Joybird)
Powered by ecommerce and online social influence, another buzzworthy, multimillion dollar retail brand has selected Capitol Hill as its choice for Pacific Northwest expansion.
Joybird, an online furniture retail play gobbled up by La-Z-Boy for $75 million in 2018, is readying plans for a new Seattle showroom on Capitol Hill’s 10th Ave.
According to city permits, the new store is set to take over the 6,200-square-foot space left empty since the 2021 exit of music shop Everyday Music. Everyday had been resident in the space — formerly used as a parking garage — for ten years. Continue reading
LIHI volunteers helping to assemble furniture for the new apartments (Image: LIHI)
A design rendering of 506 10th Ave E
Dozens of new neighbors are moving in just off Broadway.
The Low Income Housing Institute announced its 10th Ave E building, one of three under construction, market-rate Capitol Hill developments purchased last year by the city for affordable housing, has opened for leasing as “Permanent Supportive Housing” and began welcoming its first residents as February began.
“Buying a newly constructed building saved precious time during the pandemic to stand up critically needed PSH housing for homeless people,” LIHI executive director Sharon Lee said in a statement.
“We did not have to search for land, securing financing and wait for permits and construction to get completed. We saved three or more years,” Lee said.
Residents of the 10th Ave E building include people transitioning out of tiny houses, homeless young adults referred from the Seattle Indian Center, ROOTS, YouthCare, Urban League, REACH, and other agencies, and people exiting the Executive Pacific Hotel, one of two city-leased hotels utilized last year as a “shelter surge” effort to move more people out of encampments during the pandemic. The Executive Pacific shelter effort was slated to end last month.
LIHI said it was able to open the building thanks to a last minute push from volunteers coming in to help with finishing touches including assembling furniture for the building’s 36 studio units. Continue reading
