This week in CHS history | Last Melrose spite mound house demolished, Ox Burger born, 2022 Seven Hills Park encampment sweep

Here are the top stories from this week in CHS history:

2025

 

Another smash and grab burglary crash leaves Capitol Hill’s The Reef pot shop storefront crumbled

Police search for suspect after Broadway/Pike stabbing — UPDATE

Burwell House latest to be considered for landmarks protections on Capitol Hill’s Millionaire’s Row

OOLA says goodbye to Capitol Hill — again — as 14th and Union restaurant shutters

Theater kids push back on Seattle U’s big plans for new art museum to replace Lee Center

2024

 

‘Unfortunate, but amicable’ — How Capitol Hill’s Machiavelli block is becoming the Voodoo Doughnut block

Homeless man found stabbed to death in 12th Ave alley identified as longtime neighborhood resident

Broadway’s Boca food and drink family won’t reopen after founder’s death

Horizon Books ends a 53-year-old Capitol Hill story

Bonito Café y Mercadito bringing community, culture, and coffee to Capitol Hill

2023

 

Hot Mama’s Pizza mourns passing of owner Krista Nelson — ‘the glue that held us all together’

Last of the Melrose spite mound houses demolished on Capitol Hill

The Lao Burger now has its own ‘flagship restaurant’ as Ox Burger debuts on E Madison

Prosecutor: Reckless driving plea deal for East Precinct cop’s brother in 2020 CHOP protest shooting

2022

 

Suddenly a flashpoint in mayor’s new response to Seattle homelessness, Capitol Hill’s Seven Hills Park to be cleared of encampment Thursday — UPDATE

Man shot and killed on Summit Ave

What Capitol Hill’s new eight-story, mass timber City Market building — with corrugated steel and Japanese climbing vines — will look like

King County and Seattle end vax card requirements starting March 1st

Pike/Pine putters have a new place to play as Five Iron Golf tees off on Capitol Hill

2021

 

QFC to shutter 15th Ave E grocery as company axes two Seattle stores over COVID-19 hazard pay — UPDATE

Amid outcry over inequity, Hugo House announces resignation of executive director — UPDATE

One reported to hospital in Quinalt Apartments fire — UPDATE

With bigger Pike/Pine street changes ahead, construction on Melrose Ave pedestrian and biking overhaul slated to begin this summer

2016

 

Done deal: Vulcan pays $30.9M for 6 acres at 23rd and Jackson

Black Coffee, anarchist co-op that left Capitol Hill, calls it quits

On Capitol Hill corner ripe for development, cash-strapped assisted living home will close

With one six-story apartment building at 23rd and Union now open, here’s what the second will look like

Another chain restaurant set to be replaced on Broadway

 

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