It s Uptown : Seattle City Council affirms accurately identifying neighborhood
The Seattle City Council affirmed the name of the neighborhood including the Seattle Center and Climate Pledge Arena is Uptown, not Lower Queen Anne or Belltown. Author: Hannah Everman (KING5) Updated: 5:49 PM PDT April 12, 2021
SEATTLE It s not lower Queen Anne, or Belltown, but rather Uptown. That s the official name for the neighborhood and representatives for the area want everyone to know it.
The Seattle City Council unanimously voted Monday to support a resolution requiring city departments and outside entities to identify the Uptown neighborhood accurately.
The Uptown neighborhood includes Seattle Center, the Climate Pledge Arena - formerly KeyArena - and several arts organizations. There are also more than 7,000 residents in Uptown plus dozens of restaurants and businesses.
After their busiest year on record, Mid Coast Hunger eyes expansion
In the soup kitchen, Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program served over 64,000 meals in 2020, which represents a 56 percent increase over 2019.
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After the organization’s busiest year on record, Brunswick’s Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program is beginning to take steps towards expansion, eyeing a portion of a building at Brunswick Landing.
Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program is a food justice non-profit and food bank based in Brunswick and has been headquartered at Tenney Way since 2003.
While still in the preliminary stages, they are exploring a location at Neptune Drive at the former Brunswick Naval Air Station. However, an expansion there would require an adjustment in a zoning ordinance. The Brunswick Town Council unanimously took the first step last month by sending the zoning amendment request to the planning board.
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This rendering, from last fall, looks east along John Street. The city’s new Denny Substation and the Nexus condominium tower are at right.
April 7 will be the third design review for a planned 45-story, 435-unit residential tower at 1370 Stewart St. That triangular block is immediately south of the REI flagship store in South Lake Union. It s north of Denny Way, and just west of Interstate 5. Whether Canadian landowner Arbutus Properties will develop condos or rental units remains to be seen. The last design review was almost two years ago, pre-pandemic.
Perkins+Will is designing the tower, which Andersen Construction will build. The team also includes Magnusson Klemencic Associates, structural engineer; Glumac, MEP; Coughlin Porter Lundeen, civil; Site Workshop, landscape architect; EA Engineering, SEPA consultant; and Lerch Bates, elevators.
Seattle police found spike strips, weapons, and shields inside tents during a cleanup of Cal Anderson Park.
A federal judge denied a request Thursday to stop Seattle from clearing the last remains of a homeless encampment that has received pushback from activists.
U.S. District Judge Richard Jones held a two-hour hearing Wednesday in which he referred to the winter weather as a horrible time to begin moving those living in Cal Anderson Park, according to The Seattle Times. The city had planned to clear the park Wednesday but paused after a lawsuit was filed to stop the action.
Some homeless people in the park left anyway. The Seattle Parks and Recreation Department gave the people living in the park a two days notice to remove their belongings from the area.