The Daily Journal of Commerce reports that a 46-unit apartment building will soon go up across the street from the quirky Beacon Hill Library, which, coincidently, was hit by a stray bullet yesterday. One of the two targets of this shooting, which is still under investigation, was hit in the ankle and the other in the leg. The shooter, who was in a moving car, has yet to be identified and brought to justice.

The construction of the four-story building will add a fourth new building to the area around the Beacon Hill Station, a building which is not ugly but is frustrated by a failed vertical garden. (The kind of architects who love vertical gardens, love quirky designs: both offer middle-class white Americans a way of doing something without really doing or changing anything.) The station, which also has what have to be the worst elevators in the city (the whole system was poorly conceived), will be connected to two new stations (Capitol Hill and University District) on March 19.

Beacon Hill, the most populous neighborhood in Seattle, is one of the few minority majority neighborhoods in the city.