August 19, 2011

Maple Leaf residents have plenty of avenues to get their art on locally this weekend. In addition to the opening this week of Glassique, which easily draws in passers-by with its 400-square-foot showroom full of colorful glass art, this weekend there also will be an art show at the Maple Leaf Grill, 8929 Roosevelt Way N.E. Some of the

August 18, 2011

UW Medicine is opening a neighborhood clinic on the ground floor of Thornton Place in spring 2012. Thornton Place has been struggling to fill its retail space since it opened in the middle of the economic downturn, but it soon will have an anchor tenant next to The Vitamin Shoppe on the west side of the

August 17, 2011

Update 2: Colin emails: “I live on Northeast 82nd Street, just east of Roosevelt. Monday morning (8/15), I woke up at 5:15 a.m. and just happened to look outside, towards our cars parked on 82nd. A 20-something guy was peering into the window of my wife’s car. He started walking away, and I immediately called

August 17, 2011

If you missed last month’s meeting about developing the Northgate Station Area Development site, all the information from that open house now can be seen online. Would you like to see residential high rises (left) or low rises (right) with retail on the bottom around the new Northgate Light Rail Station? Take the online survey. The Seattle

August 16, 2011

This was the scene Friday evening, Aug. 12, ago after a motorist smashed right over the speed circle at Northeast 88th Street and 12th Avenue Northeast. Now the Maple Leaf Community Council says it will ask the city for help in stopping persistent speeders. “MLCC will request a speed analysis on 88th and ask SDOT