Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Seattle as a first-round winner of a $2.5 million award through his Bloomberg’s American Cities Climate Challenge during a visit to the city on Friday.
Seattle City Councilmembers Teresa Mosqueda and Sally Bagshaw are sponsoring legislation that would boost the availability of affordable housing by revising policies around disposing of surplus city properties.
Ever since Leschi Market’s major expansion of its wine section in the late ‘90s, community organizations up and down Lake Washington have come to the store to collaborate on fundraisers.
Erika Locatelli says the world would be a better place if every school followed the Montessori Method of teaching. The Peaceful Place Montessori founder has roughly doubled her effort, opening a second preschool in Madrona within a year of the first.
Leschi residents had plenty of questions for Kshama Sawant during the September community council meeting, but the District 3 city councilmember mostly focused on her ongoing mission to unburden Seattleites by taxing big businesses.
After 60 years shaping young minds in Madrona, Epiphany School is balancing celebrating its past with deciding its future. “I think we’re poised to really think a little more broadly about where we are going because of some of the opportunities that are available to us and, frankly, some that are thrust on us,” said Jenn Elkin, who joined Epiphany as head of school in July 2017.
Saving the Showbox could come at a major cost, as the property owner is now suing the City of Seattle for the $40 million in potential losses from a sale of the property for redevelopment.
Sound Transit and its regional partners are poised to invest more than $100 million into the next-generation ORCA program, with the goal of improving the user experience and increasing payment options.
The Independent Pizzeria owner Tom Siegel describes his upcoming Dacha Diner as an unpretentious place to come for Eastern European comfort food. The difference in the two restaurants will be night and day, says business partner Joe Heffernan.
The seventh annual Leschi ArtWalk runs 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8. People can visit with various artists, jewelry makers, leather crafters and more at booths in front of businesses on Lakeside Avenue.
The Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections has published the final environmental impact statement for the $700 million KeyArena renovation project that could start construction this fall.
While the placement of Initiative 940 on November ballots was a disappointment to De-Escalate Washington, the campaign reports it’s ready to continue advocating for the reforms statewide.
