Seattle’s new superintendent will make just shy of $300,000 a year — with the potential for an annual $15,000 performance bonus — as part of a contract approved unanimously by the Seattle School Board on April 25.
The Seattle Tennis Club is gearing up for a summer of tournaments, the largest of which is the 128th Washington State Open. The WSO has been taking place annually since the Seattle Tennis Club formed in 1890, and draws in around 500 people to the private club annually.
The narrative of Seattle’s red hot real estate market has continued well into 2018, as the Emerald City has now held its reign atop the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Index for 18 consecutive months, while home prices across our region continue to set new benchmark values.
Seattle Department of Neighborhoods director Kathy Nyland lasted longer than many city department heads after Jenny Durkan entered the mayor’s office, but on Friday it was finally announced that Nyland will be moved into a senior advisor role with Seattle Parks and Recreation.
Denizen Development Group plans to have new townhomes and live/work units across from its Madrona Lofts ready for occupancy this fall on 34th Avenue. Madrona 12 has been a long time in the making, Denizen purchasing the land at 1132 34th Ave. three years ago and waiting two years to get its permits, said principal Chris Jolley. Construction started in early April 2017
The U.S. State Department took control of the Consulate General of the Russian Federation’s Madison Park mansion on Wednesday, April 25, in what Head of the Consular Division of the Embassy of the Russian Federation Nikolay Pukalov called “a sad day for Russian-American relations.”
Seattle restaurateur Steven Han has a new project in the pipeline, and it has nothing to do with food. Behind Momiji, Girin and Ume Sake House, Han’s latest venture is the construction of four rowhouses and four townhomes at 111-115 26th Ave. E. in Madison Valley, which he’s developing with his business partner Lawrence Yeh.
Gene and Liz Brandzel were a couple of busy beavers as they led an Earth Day work party at the street end at 37th Avenue East, a natural area they’ve stewarded for more than a decade.
Madrona Dog Company owner Susan Fondren has rallied 34th Avenue businesses together for First Fridays Madrona, a monthly event where shops stay open later and provide specials and entertainment.
Also referred to as “The Rest of the West,” the Montlake Phase of SR-520 reconstruction — slated to begin in late 2018 — will make major changes to the Montlake interchange that includes a lid over 520 and a new West Approach Bridge South for eastbound traffic that will connect to the floating bridge over Lake Washington.
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan acknowledged a seven-year, $636.5 million education levy she’s proposing to fund her Families, Education, Preschool, and Promise plan will be a hard sell to voters come November, but she says the programs it will fund are crucial to improving the city’s economic future.
Wallis Bolz walked the trails in the Alder Creek Natural Area on a wet Saturday in mid-April, pointing out areas in need of weeding and laying down wood chips. Bolz and the Green Footprints Action Works group organized the first work party on the city-owned property that once served as a dumping ground thick with blackberries and ivy back in April 2008.
The dining-out group typically meets once a month, and Seale says the restaurant is either in Madrona or has a connection to the neighborhood. The Madrona Dining and Sipping Society patronized Michael McGloin’s St. Clouds restaurant on Sunday, April 15. McGloin is working on his Sunday supper comeback for the restaurant.
The coals were hot and the sake was smashed during an invitation-only party celebrating the opening of Junkichi, a robata-style izakaya restaurant in Capitol Hill. Junkichi officially opens on Sunday, April 15.
The Madrona Company’s new four-story mixed-use residential development The Valley has filled its ground-floor retail spaces and plans to start welcoming residents in May.
Much of Matt Telmosse’s clientele are mid-level professionals and avid cyclists, but they won’t have to go long distance to find The Polka Dot Jersey’s new Leschi shop.
Karl Mueller says he's still working out how to make Intrigue Chocolate's new Capitol Hill coffeehouse and chocolate shop a community hub. Two weeks since the soft opening at the corner of 15th Avenue and East Madison Street, there's still room left to grow.
Developers in Madison Valley, Washington Park, Harrison/Denny-Blaine, Madrona, the Central District and Leschi will now need to meet these Central Area Neighborhood Design Guidelines and have their commercial and residential projects vetted by a new design review board.
As The Danforth nears a July opening at Broadway and East Madison, developer Columbia Pacific Advisors is using a new marketing concept to generate buzz about the 16-story residential building and support three area nonprofits.
Rock Paper Scissors owner Brianne Ingertila is opening a new salon for her younger clientele that will double as a toy store nearly a hopscotch skip away from her existing Madrona business.
The former Capitol Hill Tully’s space will serve coffee again — and a bevy of baked goods — as Macrina Bakery builds out the 19th Avenue East building for its fifth café.
Sunday’s intermittent drizzles demonstrated the utility of the new Arboretum Loop Trail during its grand opening celebration. A crowd gathered for drumming, family activities and trail tours on April 8, pausing briefly as representatives from the City of Seattle, University of Washington and Arboretum Foundation made opening day remarks and then performed a “vine-cutting” ceremony.
The Miller Community Center will host a $3.3 million solar microgrid demonstration project, according to an announcement by Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan on Friday.
Gene and Liz Brandzel have spent the past 11 years turning the 37th Avenue East road end into a nature habitat and popular neighborhood destination, and they’re inviting the community to lend a hand for Earth Day.
The Seattle Select Committee on Citywide Mandatory Housing Affordability will hold a public hearing on proposed zoning changes in Districts 3 and 7 at 6 p.m. on Monday, April 16, at Seattle Central College.
Denise Juneau is poised to become the next superintendent of Seattle Public Schools, after the school board voted Wednesday night to enter contract negotiations with the former Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Congestion pricing could be coming to the city’s downtown core, as part of a new push to reduce carbon emissions announced Wednesday. But Mayor Jenny Durkan says downtown tolling is only one part of a larger slate of “meaningful changes” needed to meet carbon goals and relieve traffic congestion in the face of inaction from the Trump administration.
The Washington State Department of Transportation is inviting the public to an open house addressing the Montlake Phase of the State Route 520 reconstruction project.
Mayor Jenny Durkan halted the project last week after a preliminary assessment of costs concluded the city could face a large capital deficit. “Right now, we have a $23 million deficit, and clearly that’s resources the project doesn’t have,” said interim SDOT director Goran Sparrman during a council briefing on Monday, April 2.
Plans for a Madison Park waterfront redevelopment are on hold pending changes to Seattle’s zoning and design guidelines. Madison Lakeview, 2043 43rd Ave. E., is a proposed three-story apartment building with 12 units and a below-grade parking garage for 14 vehicles.
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan announced the launch of a new website that connects residents with more than a hundred free and discounted resources in late March.
