Back in February (brrr!), we reported on the venerable Capitol Hill institution, B&O Espresso, being forced out of its longtime location at the corner of Belmont & Olive because the property owners had plans for a multi-story apartment building there. This weekend we stopped in and saw the B&O's owner Majid behind the pastry case, and asked how things were going. Turns out that he's still planning on moving up to Broadway to take over......

The late Edith Macefield's home, courtesy of Seattlest Flickr user mary land Everyone has a price, they say. But it's always nice to see when people have more integrity than to let their property go to some silly development project. That's why we thought Edith Macefield, of Ballard, was such a swell lady. She refused to take the million-dollar buyout Trader Joe's tried to give her, so that they could take over her property......

It's a little eerie--one of the shovels has picked up a 15' stretch of I-beam and is using it to drag swaths of rubble up into a pile. Obviously there's someone in the cabin operating the thing, but glimpsed out of the corner of your eye, it looks like a machine has learned how to use tools. So goodbye old Broadway QFC! Goodbye, old Broadway Taco Bell! Goodbye, old house! Maybe now we'll see some......

"Denny Triangle And First Hill" by Ryan Hadley A 13-acre, $600 million property in the Denny Triangle has been pulled back off the markets for now, thanks to an unfavorable debt economy thwarting similar development deals across the country. According to the Wall Street Journal, the development of the Clise family-owned property was meant to catapult a $7 billion project in downtown Seattle and revitalize the area over the next twenty years. Apparently, the......

There was little real reason to expect anything different during Sunset Bowl's last night of operation. We read histrionic predictions somewhere that hipsters would swarm the place; this never materialized. There were perhaps a few more people--though that place was always packed whenever we went--and some may have stuck around later, but by and large the clientèle consisted of the same combination of loud, scruffy, tattooed, pierced, well-groomed, young, old, middle-aged, beefy, wiry, scrawny,......

photograph courtesy of Bryan Gosline Studying changing urban landscapes involves frequent disappointment and depression. Gin only goes so far to numb the pain. Being a resident is often no picnic, either. Market forces and decisions by real estate developers don't often jibe with the interests of the people who will actually be using that real estate or the residents near the area of the proposed development. It's easy to demonize "greedy" developers and "sell......

BCC Mikie Ballard, the company that owns the Denny’s building recently granted landmark status, is now suing to reverse that decision. These guys are serious too. They want to tear down that Denny’s something fierce. The PI says that they brought more than a dozen legal theories down on the heads of the Seattle Landmarks and Preservation Board. Oh, and they’re pissed: "The Board's decision ... was sentimental and capricious, but not legal," says one......

photo courtesy of caseysail in the Seattlest Flickr pool. We hope this isn't a growing trend. From the Croc to the Sunset Bowl to all of Seattle's bars, it seems as though any place of which beer is an integral component is endangered with stifling regulation or closure or even the wrecking ball. The very latest, of course, is a portion of the old Georgetown brewery just a scant few days after the 104th......

For all those interested, tonight the Capitol Hill Arts Center will be hosting a panel discussion with the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce on the topic of "Is there still room for culture on Capitol Hill?" The impetus behind the event is the generally rapacious rate of condo-conversion and construction that's pushed out notable businesses along Pike/Pine, and now finds its apogee in the sale of Oddfellows Hall, which threatens to displace a number of......

While the city goes about with itself, Seattlest spends countless hours in an ivory tower somewhere between Pike Place Market and the Lusty Lady. We pace the floor with a hunched back, wringing our hands, wrinkling our nose and whispering, "what, what, what... is the meaning of this?" Location: 2nd and Pine. Old purpose: parking lot next to Macy's Garage. New purpose: Huge gaping hole. For at least six months now, we've walked past this......