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The 50 oldest businesses in District 3

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Screen-Shot-2015-10-08-at-10.19.56-PM (2)While the neighborhoods of Capitol Hill and Central Seattle continue to change and grow, not everything is glossy and new. CHS found that 45% of area business permits within District 3 have been active for 10 years or more. The oldest? Well, you’ll have to scroll to the end of our list.

Below, we’ve called out the 50 oldest active business permits in the neighborhoods of District 3 from Capitol Hill to the Central District.

The list covers businesses and organizations licensed within the area’s ZIP codes but it’s not comprehensive. There are many businesses that have been open for decades but may be registered somewhere else, so they are not included in our list. Others represent businesses that have closed up shop, but still maintain a license.

In general, the businesses and organizations with the most staying power seem to be nonprofits and offices of professional services like architects and lawyers. And food and drink entrepreneurs take note: Only one restaurant — the Deluxe Bar and Grill at 87 — cracks the top 100… not even close to our top 50, below.

District 3’s 50 Oldest Businesses

  1. Genesis House – An inpatient drug rehab center in the Laschi/Madrona area which opened in 1971. It closed in 2014.

    Country Doctor

    Country Doctor

  2. County Doctor Community Health Clinic – Serving the community since 1971, the Country Doctor on 19th Avenue East is planning an expansion, possibly next year, in order to add dental health to the list of services they provide.
  3. Group Health Cooperative – the larger group health organization was founded in 1945, but in 1971, they planted a flag on Capitol Hill.
  4. Roger Newell – the architect whose office is on 19th Avenue East has had his business license in this area since 1971.
  5. Robert E. Frey – One of the first Certified Financial Planners in the state, according to a 1975 Seattle Times article on Frey’s website.
  6. Donald Glover – not that Donald Glover. This Donald Glover was the owner behind Horizon Books, the used bookstore which used to be on 15th, in the spot currently occupied by Ada’s. Now, it operates an online business on 10th Ave. Continue reading →

The top 10 films of 2014… on 12th Ave

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The Grand Budapest Hotel made Bush's list. CHS gives it ***

The Grand Budapest Hotel made Bush’s list. CHS gives it ***

There are some bad signs for the future of film — and some good. Let’s turn to Lyall Bush, the executive director of 12th Ave’s Northwest Film Forum, for some home hope. NWFF has posted Bush’s 2014 top 10 list. You can add your picks in comments. The constraints are time-flexible. We don’t really care what year the film was made — just tell us what you watched and liked in 2014 and where you saw it.

Civilization and its Disturbances: The Year in Film vis Northwest Film Forum’s Lyall Bush

  1. force majeure — asks us to regard nature against something like artifice
  2. Contempt — one of Jean-Luc Godard’s major films, and therefore one of the greatest films ever made
  3. The Grand Budapest Hotel — in his own highly designed way Anderson has made his Vertigo
  4. La Voz de los Silenciados — the film’s tale of human enslavement in New York quite originally suggests Czech surreal filmmaking from decades ago
  5. A Spell to Ward of the Darkness — a beautiful braid of the complex, the stirring, and the disturbing
  6. A Touch of Sin — a bigger film than he has previously made, harder and shinier
  7. Under the Skin — arresting film about an alien on the streets of Glasgow
  8. Nymphomaniac, Vol. 1 — Von Trier, and his leading lady, Charlotte Gainsbourg, make it something of a deconstruction of civilization and its discontents
  9. In Country — a documentary about Vietnam war re-enactors in Oregon
  10. Speed of Sound — what happens when the text message from a friend who died a year ago pops up on a phone

Capitol Hill food+drink summer report: 27 bars, restaurants and cafes still to come in 2014

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The opening of the Chophouse Row building -- and its mews -- will be an end-of-year 2014 highlight (Image: SKL Architects)

The opening of the Chophouse Row building and preservation project — and its mews — will be an end-of-year 2014 highlight (Image: SKL Architects)

The crew from Slate Coffee will join Le Gourmand-rooted Anadine in Chophouse (Image: Slate Coffee)

The crew from Slate Coffee will join Le Gourmand-rooted Amandine in Chophouse (Image: Slate Coffee)

We started the year with this roster of 24 Capitol Hill bars and restaurants to look forward to in 2014. With many of those projects already humming along in the Hill’s food and drink economy, there are still plenty more to look forward to through the rest of the year. Here is a midway-point update on opening targets and exciting new projects.

  1. Zhu Dang — E Olive Way: “The building is in the neighborhood where he lived for years and he is already a longtime CHS reader. Now a first-time owner just needs to transform a failed Capitol Hill nightclub into Seattle’s next big thing in Chinese restaurants.” More… UPDATE: “We are definitely chugging along, and so far no catastrophic snags in construction.  It’s looking like more of an early fall opening for us, but there’s still a chance we could cruise in at the last minute of summer!”
  2. Amandine and Slate Coffee — Chophouse Row: “The project from Bruce and Sarah Naftaly will take up residence on two levels of the Chophouse marketplace with a split ground floor/mezzanine cafe and bake shop.” More… UPDATE: Seattle Mag has the goods: “Her shop will be called Amandine and will share a two-story space with Slate Coffee, undoubtedly making it the new morning stop on 11tha nd Pike come fall. ‘It will be a very un-Seattle space,’ she says. ‘We’ll have this really long, narrow [space] and then we’ll have stairs up the side of it that go up to a mezzanine.’”
  3. ‘Bar Ferd’nand II’ Unnamed Project — Chophouse Row: “Inside this fall, you will find a project being called Bar Ferd’nand II, a 1,400 square-foot edition of the popular Melrose Euro-style bar, wine shop and cafe.” More…
  4. Kurt Farm Shop — Chophouse Row: “The farm-to-table pioneer is now planning his food+drink return to the neighborhood with a new, teensy-tiny shop in Liz Dunn’s Chophouse Rose development on 11th Ave between Pike and Union” More…
  5. Stateside_Logo-02-400x310Chop Shop Cafe and Bar — Chophouse Row: “Volunteer Park Cafe’s Burke will be front and center in the Chophouse plan. Her Chop Shop Cafe and Bar will front the project’s street level entrance on 11th Ave and serve breakfast, lunch and dinner in the midst of the bustling development.” More…
  6. Stateside — E Pike: “First-time Seattle restauranteur Eric Johnson plans to open Stateside — blending ‘fresh flavors of Vietnam with French influence’ — in a new project at 300 E Pike this fall.” More… Continue reading →

Capitol Hill Lists | Macklemore unseats Journey for Cap Hill karaoke crown

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Macklemore @ CHBP 7-23-10,
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Capitol Hill restaurants, bars, shops, etc., send us your lists. Bestsellers, etc — we’ll share them here. Send a note to [email protected].

In a sure sign of pop superstardom, Seattle rapper Macklemore dethroned perennial king of karaoke Journey for February’s top song at Nagle Place’s Rock Box. It’s not an easy feat — check out the death grip Don’t Stop Believin’ held as the top song in 2012.

Rock Box, by the way, is a CHS advertiser. Macklemore is not.

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