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The City of Seattle is in the process of acquiring an empty, $1.1 million lot at the corner of Federal and Republican to turn the land into another new Capitol Hill park, according to an announcement from the Seattle Parks Department. Details of a co...

topics: artist, capitol-hill, developers, development, neighborhood

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A driver speeding across Capitol Hill after hitting a car near 20th and Madison was finally apprehended following a short foot chase after hitting another vehicle near Boylston and Republican, according to the police radio scanner report from our par...

topics: capitol-hill, central-district

aggregated from: Capitol Hill Seattle

A driver speeding across Capitol Hill after hitting a car near 20th and Madison was finally apprehended following a short foot chase after hitting another vehicle near Boylston and Republican, according to the police radio scanner report from our par...

topics: capitol-hill, central-district

aggregated from: Capitol Hill Seattle

Capitol Hill lost one of its two on-street bike parking options when SDOT removed the rack in front of the Broadway Market QFC late last year. Nobody tried that we know of -- but SDOT now tells CHS they were worried that the rack would be stolen. No...

topics: bicycle, bike, cafe, capitol-hill, coffee

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With the construction walls rising at the work site for the Capitol Hill light rail station and tunnels, a major component of Sound Transit's strategy to complete work on budget and in time for a 2016 start of service is still not in place.To enable ...

topics: capitol-hill, development, downtown, neighborhoods, running

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Foursquare and Gowalla are now competing for your smart phones attention. Based on the Capitol Hill activity present on Foursquare, it looks like local users will favor using its application over Gowallas.For those who are not yet familiar with eithe...

topics: capitol-hill, coffee, design, pike-place-market

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Earlier this week I got a chance to sit down and talk with Capitol Hill resident and author Cherie Priest about her most recent work, the Seattle-set steampunk novel Boneshaker. Much of my conversation with Priest boiled down to one question: Why S...

topics: capitol-hill, development

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A dog runs through the wading pool located in Cal Anderson Park during a warm day in January. It was the warmest January in Seattle on record.Seattle University's and CHS are partners in a unique collaboration pairing student journalists and in...

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Sound Transit has started to construct its huge construction wall along 10th as it begins work on the Capitol Hill Light Rail Station. Originally Sound Transit said the wall would be 16 ft tall (when they released the rendering that I'm including h...

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In June of 2009, the Broadway TOD Community Stakeholder Committee selected a team of local architecture studio Schemata Workshop & the planning firm Makers to help synthesize community priorities for the TOD sites and develop a vision for the statio...

topics: capitol-hill, design, development