Shutting

Following a November 19 shooting inside Capitol Hill's Sugar nightclub that left three people wounded, the club appears to be closing down. In an e-mail to employees, Sugar's owner, George Foster, said he plans to "close the business... and put it up for sale," because he expects the city and Washington State Liquor Control Board will shut him down.

The afternoon after the shooting, Mayor Greg Nickels issued a statement calling for the liquor board to take "swift action" against the club. Liquor board spokesman Brian Smith says the state is awaiting the results of the police department's investigation into the shooting, but says that "any time public safety is at risk, it's a major issue for us." Since August, Sugar has been cited three times by the liquor control board. Two of the three charges are pending, but could lead to a 30-day suspension of the club's liquor license. JONAH SPANGENTHAL-LEE

Skating

Good news for roller-coaster lovers and Seattle skatepark advocates: A consultant, John Sutherland, has been working to take over part of Seattle Center currently occupied by Fun Forest amusement park when Fun Forest's lease expires in 2009. Sutherland says one of his top priorities is finding a way to incorporate a skatepark into a new Center theme park.

So far, the city's attempt to replace SeaSk8—the skatepark that used to sit just east of the Center—has been a debacle. The site for SeaSk8's replacement has been moved three times, and the city council's current proposal—to replace one of the Center's pavilions, just south of KeyArena, with a skatepark—has been met with opposition from both skaters and Seattle Center festival promoters. City Council Member Richard Conlin says he'd only be willing to look at another site if skaters wanted to start the relocation process all over again. Ryan Barth, chair of the parks department's Skate Park Advisory Committee, says that if there's more space available at the Fun Forest site, "there's no reason we wouldn't want to do it." JONAH SPANGENTHAL-LEE

Sequestering

On Election Night, November 6, supporters of the doomed roads and transit ballot measure held a gloomy gathering in a first-floor ballroom at the downtown Westin hotel. Democrats and Republicans from around the region, including King County Council Member Julia Patterson, delivered concession speeches for the package. But one prominent supporter was notably absent—Washington Governor Christine Gregoire. Sources say Gregoire spent the evening sequestered in the Westin's Presidential Suite, site of the invite-only roads and transit afterparty later that evening. The governor's campaign office did not return calls about her election-night schedule, nor about whether she had planned to emerge if roads and transit had proved victorious. NANCY DREW