12th Avenue Neighborhood & Business District

Please join us and our neighborhood friends for a party to celebrate Pike/Pine next Wednesday. The party is geared to reach out to folks who live and work in the neighborhood and also to those who just plain love Pike/Pine. The evening will feature a variety of tastes at tiny prices from some of the new restaurateurs in Liz Dunn’s Melrose Market as well as Rosebud Restaurant, beer from the Elysian, and the Molly Moon ice cream truck!

Please join us upstairs at Ragen & Associates, off Pike Street at Belmont (just upstairs from City Home Store).

Wednesday, June 23rd at 5:30pm

517 E Pike Street (upstairs)

On Sunday, August 15th we’ll be closing down 12th Avenue between Pike and Madison Streets from noon to 6pm to celebrate the 12th Avenue and Pike Pine neighborhoods in style. You won’t be able to get the usual strawberry shortcake or ear of corn from this street festival though! Fantastic local restaurants will offer international flavors from Italy, France, Mexico and Ethiopia…just to name a few. There will be booths featuring wares from great independent retailers and information from local yoga studios, salons, and theatres. The Festival will feature a beer and wine garden, roving buskers entertaining the crowd, and a fun-filled space just for kids. Come celebrate and support the great local businesses and organizations that make 12th Avenue and Pike Pine such fantastic urban neighborhoods!

For more information, please contact Cecelia Gunn at 206-204-3832 or cgunn@capitolhillhousing.org.

The East Precinct is holding a street party this Saturday on 12th between Pike and Pine Streets. Come by to eat some food, say hi to your neighbors, and meet your local police officers. I hear that there may also be some K-9 dogs and police horses. Hope to see you there!

East Precinct Picnic
Saturday, June 19
Noon - 7pm

Ever wonder what the inside of 12th Avenue Iron looks like? Catch this really cool upcoming event on May 21st there. It is the annual fundraiser for ARCADE which is a great northwest architecture and design journal.  I went to the party last year and it was an awesome gathering of cool designer peeps (way cooler than me), great music, performance and beautiful auction items. Please check it out, tickets can be purchased at the link above.

Capitol Hill Housing joined artists and neighborhood supporters at Velocity Dance’s move from the Oddfellows Building to their new home at the former CHAC space on 12th Avenue this Saturday. The parade was not only a celebration of the new space but also a way of moving chairs from the old space to the new.  It is amazing what a bunch of balloons did to make this chair-carrying group quite the spectacle on Capitol Hill!

Congratulations on the sweet move Velocity!  Welcome to 12th Avenue!

Be sure to check out Velocity’s free dance classes this week!

Don’t forget! There is a parade and party to celebrate Velocity Dance Center’s move to 12th Avenue this Saturday! Capitol Hill Housing (along with tons of neighborhood folks and the Mayor!) will be part of the parade. We’ll see you there!

Parade: 5pm starting at Oddfellows Hall (10th Avenue and E Pine Street)
Ribbon Cutting: 6:30pm at Velocity Dance Center’s new location (12th Avenue between Pine and Olive)
Three Ring Circus Party: 7:00pm at Velocity Dance Center

All events are free and open to the public.

Velocity Dance Center will be moving from its current home at the Odd Fellows building to its fantastic new location at 1621 12th Avenue (the old CHAC space). To celebrate their move in style, Velocity is leading a *parade* from the Odd Fellows building at 5:30pm on March 27th to the new space followed by a ribbon cutting and a Grand Opening Party starting at 7pm. We hope that you check out the parade and join in the continued festivities at the party. This party is free and open to the community and will have feature performances and testimonials from local artists and supporters.

The Grand Opening continues with free classes March 28-April 3rd!

Check out their website for more information.

Here is another great event happening on the night of Tuesday December 8th 6-9pm , the first ever Capitol Hill Holiday Hoopla! If you are a local business, please consider participating. Contact Dominic at  Dominic@dibspace.com or RSVP on Facebook here .

So far participating businesses include:

Sorrento Hotel, Baltic Room, Fuel Coffee, Molly Moon’s, Dogs on the Hill, Tidbit Bistro, Emerson Salon, Healeo, Poco Wine Room, Office Nomads, Babeland, Po Dog, Pearl Vodka and HonesTea. It would be great to get some 12th Ave businesses on this list too!

So come on out to the 12th Ave Neighborhood Meeting beforehand and then hit the Holiday Hoopla after for an awesome night of greater Capitol Hill community!