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HISTORIC SUNSET ELECTRIC BUILDING PURCHASE BY THE WOLFF COMPANY
Company Extends Commitment to Capitol Hill

SEATTLE MAY 16, 2012 The Wolff Company closed on the purchase of Capitol Hill’s historic Sunset Electric project at 11^th and Pine late Tuesday afternoon. The purchase extends the company’s real estate holdings in Seattle’s vibrant Capitol Hill neighborhood, where they recently purchased and announced plans to develop the former BMW auto dealership at 714 East Pike.

“We believe very strongly in the quality of the Capitol Hill neighborhood and are excited to be a part of the effort to bring some of its more historic buildings back into service for the benefit of the entire community,” noted Tim Wolff of The Wolff Company.

The Wolff Company made news recently with the announcement of its purchase of the nearby BMW building. During the process of completing the BMW property transaction, The Wolff Company learned the sellers,...

On May 14th at approximately 6:07 p.m. officers responded to a pizza restaurant in the 1400 block of East Pine Street for the report of a robbery. The 911 call indicated that a male suspect was inside threatening employees and telling them to get down. The suspect demanded money and threatened to shoot the employees. It was later determined that all the employees had locked themselves in a back office awaiting the arrival of officers.

Upon officers’ arrival on scene the suspect was inside the store, near the front door, holding a bottle of wine. The suspect was placed under arrest and positively identified by the employees.

No firearm was located on the suspect and nobody was injured during the attempted robbery.

The 38-year-old male suspect was subsequently booked into the King County Jail for Investigation of Robbery.

This remains an active and on-going investigation.

Seattle City Council Community Conversations
Participants will engage City Councilmembers and neighbors in conversation centered on five thought-provoking questions about the future of our City.

Central Seattle
Monday, May 14, 2012, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
Seattle Central Community College, 1701 Broadway, Broadway Edison Building, Room BE1110

Three Mondays in May feature the World Café format and are a chance to meet and engage your elected officials and neighbors in conversation, a place to learn about the basics of the City budget and choices faced by City policymakers and an opportunity to participate in the civic life of your home community.

The buildings will of course, have to be brought up to code to comply with seismic and life safety standards and the design and engineering team is still assessing the extent of reinforcement the buildings will need.

The newer part of the project, which will consume four parcels of land behind the older buildings, will partly overhang the two older buildings, Price explains. The new structure will cantilever within 15 feet of the existing roofline.More here (more)

• Two options will remain on the table for scaling back the allowance of commercial uses in multifamily zones. The first would fine tune the zoning so that restaurants and cafes would not be allowed in the zones on Capitol Hill where the most opposition has been voiced and, a few committee members contended, there is less of a need to encourage this type of retail. The other option would be to simply restrict the commercial allowance to arterials across the city.
• The committee was also able to nail down one particular in the parking debate by agreeing that major institutions within urban centers and station overlay areas should not be subject to parking minimums. There was also consensus that the legislation should be shaped toward the Planning Commission's more moderate parking minimum recommendations.

At 2:54 p.m. Seattle Firefighters responded to a pizza place at 600 Summit Avenue East to reports of a worker caught in the dough making machine. The male employee had caught his hand inside the machine. It took about 15 minutes for Seattle Firefighters to disassemble pizza making machine in order to free the male employee’s hand. The man suffered serious injuries to his hand and fingers. The patient remained conscious and alert during the extrication and was able to assist firefighters with disassembling the machine.

Seattle Firefighters in an Aid Unit transported the male patient to Harborview Medical Center in stable condition. The patient was a male in his 30’s.