Sustainable Ballard is holding a bike rack design contest, and the winner will be announced during the Ballard Seafood Fest later this month. Take a look at this entry. “This rack design serves to enshrine the memory of an old Googie icon in the new Ballard,” writes Crosscut’s Knute Berger. “Suggested location: 15th Avenue Northwest …
Tonight is the Woodland Park Zoo’s largest fundraiser of the year, known as the “Jungle Party,” and hundreds of protesters are hoping to make a statement. The Friends of Woodland Park Zoo Elephants believe that the conditions for Chai, Watoto, and Bamboo aren’t acceptable. They say the elephants are locked in a barren room for …
-The Nordic Heritage Museum’s annual Tivoli/Viking Days festival celebrates its 25th anniversary this weekend. The hours on Saturday are 10 a.m.to 6 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. -The Seattle Tilth Chicken Coop tour is Saturday starting at 12 p.m. Talk with the chicken keepers in the city of Seattle about building coops, …
Tomorrow is World Naked Bike Ride Day, so of course Seattle bikers will be making their way through the nude biking capital of Fremont. The “beginners” ride starts at Gas Works Park at 1 p.m. (with body painting at 10 a.m.) and travels through Wallingford, down to Fremont then toward downtown. There are a couple …
The blue and yellow campaign signs are everywhere in the neighborhood. Democrats John Burbank and Reuven Carlyle are vying for the state representative seat in the 36th district in a highly-competitive race. Last night, a meeting of voting Democrats was unable to reach a consensus on endorsing one of the candidates, reports the PI. With …
At midday today, restoration crews finished their work on the zoo mural in the 57th St. underpass. The grey paint is gone. And the familiar animals are back, in brilliant color. There are some patches, however, where the spray removed more than just the grey paint. This patch near the giraffe is the largest. It …
“We moved back to Ballard after a decade long absence,” writes Forsher in the forum. “Now that the area is no longer ‘undiscovered’ we noticed a lot more cars, and the system of polite intersections without stop signs just doesn’t work the way it used to. Anyone interested in getting the city to begin putting …
As we know, Sunset Bowl’s days are numbered. An application has been submitted to demolish the bowling alley and replace it with a 6-story mixed use building. The new building will include 15,000 square feet of retail space on the ground floor with 230 apartments above and parking for 280 cars. Later this month, the …
Take a look at this parking meter outside the Ballard Library. Good karma.
The invasion of cookie-cutter town homes has been the subject of much discussion recently. And now Mayor Nickels is proposing that city planners review all designs for new townhouses, essentially closing a loophole that allowed developers to expedite smaller projects. It would also require more windows, wider driveways and entrances that face the street. At …
Many Ballard residents received their annual phone book delivery yesterday. “I haven’t used a phone book in about 10 years thanks to the internet,” writes Mo in the forum. “Every year I get frustrated when I receive a fresh one that ends up directly in the recycling bin.” Last year, Mo was able to intercept …
Tuesday evening’s streetcar meeting quickly became a standing-room-only event as people trickled in after the meeting got underway. Marni Heffron of Heffron Transportation Consulting presented the Streetcar Network Concept. The network includes proposed routes to U District, Lower Queen Anne, Capitol Hill, Downtown and Ballard Commons (through Fremont) for a total combined cost of $685 …