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June 7, 2011
This week The Atlantic magazine posted a piece titled: “How to Turn a Parking Lot Into an Ideal Green Community.” The author, Kaid Benfield, is full of praise for “possibly the best example of transit-oriented urbanism, natural public space, and green stormwater infrastructure I have ever seen,” and what he’s praising focuses on the daylighting …
June 6, 2011
Maple Leaf boasts plenty of opportunities for children to release their inner artist. In addition to Early Masters, which is geared toward children ages 7-12, the younger set also gets its chance to experiment with art at Seattle Creative Kids Preschool, for children ages 3-5. If you’re interested in learning more, owner and teacher Sheila Cloney invites you to the …
June 5, 2011
For nearly a year, the space at 9634 Roosevelt Way N.E. has been vacant since Revolution Cycles closed its doors last August. But a new business plans to move in soon. Glassique is an architectural glass design studio that now is located at10509 Aurora Ave. N. According to the Glassique Facebook page, the city of Seattle has …
June 5, 2011
The mural on Roosevelt Way Northeast and Northeast 86th Street, showing plans for the new Maple Leaf Reservoir Park but destroyed in a car crash last fall, is coming back. Earlier today Donna Hartmann-Miller, the Maple Leaf Community Council’s park czar, was busy with a new work, presumably with up-to-date information from last week’s park …
June 3, 2011
An alert neighbor called Seattle police shortly before noon Thursday to say he just saw two men walk out of his neighbor’s home in the 12500 lock of 25th Avenue Northeast with a pillowcase full of presumably pilfered items. Police report the caller “yelled at the men to stop, but they took off running and …