makes sense to colocate parking below ground for 362 vehicles near a light rail station, if only to get all those people in the rest of Capitol Hill to use the station, and to build a seven story retail/housing project there. I wonder how much bike capacity the garage will have, and how many plug-in vehicle parking spaces at prime locations?
That said, I miss the original restaurant and have fond memories of hanging out there.
holy shit. man im not going to recognize that place if i ever go back. ill always remember that place for the waiter complimenting me on my big soft penis as i was trying to take a leak. yes ladies, it happens to men too.
You stupid poseurs have no idea how great the original (original) Cafe Septieme in Belltown (and it wasn't even called "Bell Town" because it was just a bunch of artists in old car garages) was that had seven tables, and you could talk your drink orders to the barista over the open counter.
No idea at all.
But then again, you have no idea why this matters, poseurs:
I have such fond memories of Andy's Diner - when I moved to Seattle I was still a vegatarian and about the only thing on their menu I could eat was the cheese omelet, but it was 2 bucks, so I ate there a lot. Sigh....
Well folks, this is what transit-oriented development looks like. Sorry you lost a restaurant you liked, and sorry if the design of the new building doesn't suit your particular tastes, but this is a net positive. We need density around those stations. Keeping them surrounded by single story small retail doesn't make any sense.
For all you haters on this new project - which will no doubt improve Broadway's image & street life - I'm looking forward to the innnovative new retail such as an AT&T store, a tanning salon & a Chase Bank branch.
Seriously. Who goes to tanning salons? They're all over the fucking place. They make no sense to me. They give you cancer. They make you old. Who the fuck goes to tanning salons?!
All I want to say is that while density is desirable, and maybe even necessary along transit, it doesn't have to look like that. It doesn't have to be a predictable, bland, developer-driven design that has nothing to do with Seattle or what Capitol Hill means as a cultural center in the northwest. Just a missed opportunity.
Is there really any reason to GO to Broadway anymore? The only places I visit anymore are Dick's and Than Brothers and maybe Redlight twice a year...everything else is just...meh.
Can't believe there's some architect at "Runberg Architecture Group" who's actually going to pretend to take pride in such a piece of shit building. The block--the entire street--would be better served by leaving the debris there; it'd never be less interesting than what's replacing it.
Dilletante's must be gone then too, although I seem to recall them moving. Nonetheless the destruction of the building where I banged my girlfriend on the prep cook table somehow made me feel mortal and sad.
I'll go against the garin here. The building is oversized, generic, and dull, and will be filled with generic and dull retail for a decade or two until it ages into something more interesting. But in the long run this will bring more people to the neighborhood. And really, Cafe Septieme was one of the few things on that half-block that wasn't already pretty generic.
That said, I miss the original restaurant and have fond memories of hanging out there.
This is where you were a waiter, right before being tapped as the news editor, amirite? lol
I noticed they salvaged the "FIRST NATIONAL BANK" sign a while ago. Any idea where it's going to end up?
You stupid poseurs have no idea how great the original (original) Cafe Septieme in Belltown (and it wasn't even called "Bell Town" because it was just a bunch of artists in old car garages) was that had seven tables, and you could talk your drink orders to the barista over the open counter.
No idea at all.
But then again, you have no idea why this matters, poseurs:
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b238429_…
For some reason I recall a back door and people smoking in the sunlight there. Not out front - out back.
I heard they've already leased some of the ground level retail to a Starbucks and a Thai restaurant...