CAPITOL HILL: Christine Larsen, a Capitol Hill resident and
mother of three, was tired of ferrying her kids across town to outdoor
pools in Magnolia and West Seattle during the summer. So Larsen founded
neighborhood group Project Splash to lobby the city for an outdoor pool
east of I-5. The city doesn’t have money for a new pool, but Larsen
hopes to raise funds through private donations. Project Splash will
meet at Miller Community Center on October 15 at 7:00 p.m. and
Meadowbrook Community Center on October 23 at 7:15 p.m.
PIONEER
SQUARE: Seattle’s oldest neighborhood will get more housing after
the city council leaned on Kauri Investments to build 26 apartments
inside their hotel development in the historic Alaska Building. Kauri
needed to get city approval to work on the top floors of the
building—over 100 feet—and the city told the developer it
would only issue the permits if they added housing. According to Kauri
CEO Kent Angier, the city wanted “more eyes on the street.” The city’s
demands have held up development at Alaska, and Kauri is working on
reconfiguring the project. Scoffing at the city’s stance, Angier says,
“A hotel does eyes on the street [better than] residential. We’d hoped
to be under construction at this point.”
