The postcards are going up around Ballard for a new campaign called “Tuesdays in Ballard” (.pdf file). It’s a summer-long campaign designed to entice people from both outside of Ballard […]
Month: June 2009
Police looking for suspect who hit security guard
A shoplifter hit a security guard with his car at 14th and Market last night and sped away, police say. It all started around 8 p.m. when the store security […]
Crews demolish Ballard eyesore
Update: Demolition crews are taking apart the old, boarded-up home at 1753 NW 56th St., and many neighbors are happy to see it go.
The “meth house,” as some call it, has been a longtime hangout for vagrants. The abandoned building was recently acquired by the Compass Center. It has plans to rebuild on the site, but not until the economy turns around.
Back in March, we wrote about the dilemma the non-profit was facing after it purchased the boarded-up building. “To us it’s a threat to life, so we have petitioned the city to take it down,” Rick Friedhoff, director of the Compass Center told the Ballard Distric Council in March. “But it’s very difficult to take down a building like this, because the city wants you to have a Master Use Permit for what’s going to go up next.” But now it appears the Compass Center was successful in its petition to demolish the building. “The city was really helpful,” Friedhoff told us this morning. The city walked through and determined that “it would cost more to bring the building up to code, more than half of the fair market value, and said that we could tear it down.”
The building has long been the source of complaints by nearby businesses, and the Sip & Ship is celebrating the event by offering $2 tall “Demolition Lattes” all day today. Here’s some video of the demolition (Thanks, Rob!), and click the link at the bottom for more photos.
City aware of tough intersection at 15th & Market
Last month, Roy Hobbs sent us this picture and said that he sees situations like this pretty often. He says the corner from 15th heading east onto Market is a […]
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