Central District News

19/03/2025

Black Coffee Northwest: How Seattle City Hall, Vulcan Real Estate, and the goodwill of creating ‘a vibrant core for Black businesses’ in the Central District could not open a coffee shop at 23rd and Jackson

Depending on who you ask — and if they are willing to speak on the record — there are lots of failures to blame at 23rd and Jackson. But the bottom line is this: Despite years of work f…

06/01/2025

A fight is underway in the Central District to save a home that a group of Black first responders say has long been a cornerstone in their community. Members of the Seattle Black Firefighters Assoc…

20/11/2024

Hollingsworth shepherds D3 priorities through to Seattle’s final 2025 budget including $10M reallocation from Black Lives Matter ‘Participatory Budgeting’

District 3 representative Joy Hollingsworth sat out much of the debate Tuesday as the Seattle City Council shaped the final plan to change how it will spend $250 million in revenue from the city& #8…

15/10/2024

‘Proof and power’ — Africatown Plaza affordable development now open in the Central District

Africatown Plaza, a new $66.5 million 126-unit affordable apartment building on the 23rd and Union Midtown block, opened to residents this month after two years of construction that included an unp…

19/06/2024

Seattle finally has the money to build Cayton Corner Park with construction beginning in coming weeks to turn a 4,500-square-foot triangle of land along E Madison at 19th Ave into a new city park at the border of Capitol Hill and the Central District honoring the area’s Black history.

Seattle finally has the money to build Cayton Corner Park with construction beginning in coming weeks to turn a 4,500-square-foot triangle of land along E Madison at 19th Ave into a new city park a…

11/06/2024

There will not be metal detectors or police in the hallways as students return to Garfield High School Tuesday morning but there are pledges by city and community leaders and police to bring to a close a third consecutive spring of gun violence around the 23rd Ave campus following the deadly shooting of student Amarr Murphy-Paine in the front parking lot during the Thursday lunch break. Police also have asked for patience as detectives continue the effort to arrest the shooting suspect caught on school security video who opened fire on the victim at point blank range.

There will not be metal detectors or police in the hallways as students return to Garfield High School Tuesday morning but there are pledges by city and community leaders and police to bring to a c…

06/05/2024

Neighbors, members of the Leschi Community Council, and descendants of the man the park is named for are calling on Mayor Bruce Harrell and the city to act quickly to address health and safety concerns that have grown at the asylum-seeker encampment that formed late last month in the Central District’s Powell Barnett Park.

Neighbors, members of the Leschi Community Council, and descendants of the man the park is named for are calling on Mayor Bruce Harrell and the city to act quickly to address health and safety conc…

25/04/2024

A Central District hair salon has become the unexpected host of monthly poetry nights in the midst of neighborhood development at 23rd and Union.

By Nicholas Williams/UW News Lab A Central District hair salon has become the unexpected host of monthly poetry nights in the midst of neighborhood development at 23rd and Union. Soul Collective, l…

14/03/2024

A woman was shot and killed Wednesday night on S Main just blocks from a shooting earlier in the day outside Garfield High School and around the corner from where an October 2023 driveby damaged a child care center and brought citywide attention to ongoing gun violence around 23rd and Jackson.

A woman was shot and killed Wednesday night on S Main just blocks from a shooting earlier in the day outside Garfield High School and around the corner from where an October 2023 driveby damaged a …

12/03/2024

The Route 48 project has been years in waiting and scaled down significantly from early goals. Transit-only lanes won’t run the length of the northern segment. Instead, they are limited to only a few stretches where SDOT warns the bus-only lanes “may replace parking lanes or travel lanes.”

The city’s department of transportation is following up on the 23rd Ave corridor’s road diet with a scaled-back project to improve bus service through the busy route connecting the comi…

01/02/2024

Garfield Super Block design taking shape for 2025 construction with Pillars of Promise artists selection, community open house

Artists have been selected for some key elements of the project as the neighborhood will gather for a community open house Thursday to see the latest updates to the $8.4 million plan to complete th…