Tag Archives: 19th Ave

Chin up, this neighbor has added a new place to work out at their Capitol Hill corner

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Lots of neighborhood mysteries pop up in the CHS Facebook Group — What were those sirens? Why is that business closed? When will that business open? — but a recent post had neighbors stumped.

What is this structure at the corner of 19th and John Thomas?

“At first I thought it was a pull-up bar and dip bars .. so I was like: ‘Oh sweet … the city is installing some sort of fitness trail around the neighborhood,'” the poster wrote. “But at second glance the pull-up bar is awfully high … So now I’m wondering if these are some sort of structures installed by the homeowner to grow plants around.” Continue reading →

Metro holding ‘Madison Street Project’ open house on proposed RapidRide G area service changes

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King County Metro will hold the first of two planned open house sessions Thursday night on the proposed changes to Routes 10, 11, 12, and 47 in conjunction with the 2024 start of service on the E Madison RapidRide G bus line.

Open houses
Thursday, April 6 – 6:00PM to 7:30PM
Miller Community Center
330 19th Ave E

Friday, April 28 – 6:00PM to 7:30PM
Yesler Community Center
917 E Yesler Way

CHS reported on the proposals last month. Metro says the new “Madison Street Area” network would alter Routes 10, 11, 12, and 47 in the Capitol Hill, Central District, First Hill, and Madison Valley neighborhoods to “improve public transportation connections and transfers,” reduce duplication with the new RapidRide G line, and “address service that was suspended since COVID began in 2020.”

Under the RapidRide G planning, Metro is making the case to permanently axe Route 47 while proposed changes to Route 10 and Route 12 are being intertwined with a proposal for the lines be “reoriented” to operate along E Pine instead of E John and Madison, until they turn north on 15th Ave and 19th Ave. Metro is also proposing to move Route 11 off Pine. Continue reading →

With RapidRide G starting on Madison in 2024, Metro planning changes to Routes 10, 11, 12, and final elimination of the 47

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Metro’s plan is to keep the electrified trolleys of Route 12 and 10 rolling once RapidRide G comes along (Image: CHS)

With construction of the new line now at “50%,” officials are collecting feedback on proposals to alter existing bus routes that will connect with the Madison RapidRide G line when it begins service in 2024.

The new “Madison Street Area” network would alter Routes 10, 11, 12, and 47 in the Capitol Hill, Central District, First Hill, and Madison Valley neighborhoods to “improve public transportation connections and transfers,” reduce duplication with the new RapidRide G line, and “address service that was suspended since COVID began in 2020,” Metro says.

The new configurations could also fit better with the streetscape overhaul currently underway that will make Pike and Pine one-way between downtown and Bellevue Ave.

Metro’s plan is to roll the proposals out now and collect survey feedback through May before possibly revised revisions go out later in the year and are finalized in time for RapidRide G’s start of service in 2024.

Metro is promising “a final proposed bus route network that reflects community input from this survey, conversations with community members, and equity analyses” by fall 2023. Continue reading →

If you want, you can pretend 2022 never happened — Kedai Makan ready to make new start on Capitol Hill

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Kedai Makan was mourned as one of the sad goodbyes of food and drink in 2022. In 2023, it will be reborn at the top of Capitol Hill.

The short-lived Money Frog project at 15th and Pine is being transformed this week into a new home for the Malaysian favorite that settled onto Bellevue Ave as part of its decade-long path from the Capitol Hill farmers market to years of brick and mortar service just off E Olive Way. CHS reported here in October on the decision by husband and wife team Kevin Burzell and Alysson Wilson to bring their part of Kedai’s lifecycle to a close on their own terms after ten whirlwind years.

Kedai Makan will now live on under the ownership of the Money Frog team who are busy learning the recipes and art of Burzell and Wilson’s approach to Malaysian cuisine. Burzell and Wilson told CHS last year they would be “happy for the right person to give all of our secrets away” as they looked for a possible buyer as part of their exit from the business.

The plan is for a quiet reopening this week at 15th and Pine.

If it was a 10-year whirlwind for Kedai Makan, it has been a Capitol Hill food+drink cyclone for Money Frog, the collaboration from Khampaeng “KP” Panyathong with Joe and Lucy Ye of Hangry Panda that never really found its spot in Capitol Hill food and drink. Continue reading →

Brick facade crumbles from 122-year-old Capitol Hill building home to new pottery studio

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The masonry facade of a 122-year-old Capitol Hill commercial building home to a new self-service pottery studio crumbled Wednesday night following weeks of icy then extremely wet weather.

Seattle Police and Seattle Fire were sent to the scene at 19th Ave E and E Aloha around 7:30 PM Wednesday after a caller inside the building reported the crumbling wall had tumbled its blue-painted bricks onto the sidewalk. Emergency tape was strung up to cordon off the area after Seattle Fire reported the integrity of the 1900-built structure was sound.

There were no reported injuries. Continue reading →

Ready whenever inspiration strikes, new 24-hour pottery studio to open on Capitol Hill

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Now at 19th and Aloha

By Jadenne Radoc Cabahug, CHS reporting intern

Seatown Pottery is coming to Capitol Hill in November to offer a 24-hour workspace to allow artists the chance to mold things out of clay — whenever inspiration strikes.

“These are run kind of like a gym membership. Members can come and go whenever they’re able to carve time out in their busy life of juggling kids and work in school and everything,” owner Chelsea Sherman said.

The Capitol Hill location is the newest addition to the school of studios with the original established seven years ago in Redmond. Other locations include Bellevue and Green Lake.

“Adults don’t get an opportunity to be creative and get their hands dirty and kind of relax and recharge,” Sherman said. “The fact that they can come in at three in the morning and we have people that use the space at all hours of the night which is really fun to see.” Continue reading →

Miller courts a popular center for pickleball’s growth in Seattle

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With a much-needed resurfacing and community-funded nets, the pickleball courts at Capitol Hill’s Miller Playfield are now some of the busiest venues of athletic competition in the city.

Seattle Parks says from 30 to 50 players compete for the two hours 10 AM to noon every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday when the four pickleball-lined courts are reserved for free, open drop-in play.

Clubs and leagues that book up the courts the rest of the week keep them even busier. Continue reading →

Taurus Ox off to busy start in new 19th Ave E home — Plus: New Glo’s, Seattle Restaurant Week 2022, Havana Sweets

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Taurus Ox won’t open for Tuesday service as the Laotian-flavored eatery gears up for greater than expected demand in its new home on Capitol Hill.

Khampaeng “KP” Panyathong and the crew at Taurus Ox served “twice as many guests as anticipated” last week as they debuted in the new space and needed to take a day off to replenish the kitchen and do some training as they settle in on 19th Ave E. Continue reading →

As a Capitol Hill restaurant family reshuffles, Taurus Ox lands on 19th Ave E

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Location, location, location… A Capitol Hill food and drink family’s reshuffling has its centerpiece restaurant moving into a space on a quieter part of Capitol Hill where its most recently launched concept didn’t work out.

Taurus Ox, just finishing its third year of business on the Hill, is moving to 19th Ave E.

With plans to reopen in October, the chef-centric Laotian eatery from Khampaeng “KP” Panyathong is busy readying the former home of 19th Ave E Greek classic Vios as its new home after a move from the E Madison mixed-use building where it first opened in late 2019.

“The amount of food produced out of our little Lao restaurant this summer was bananas—safe to say we’ve logistically outgrown our space,” the Taurus Ox team posted about the change. “With that said, we gladly announce our very necessary expansion into our new home nearby on 19th Ave.” Continue reading →